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2007 Program
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18
11:00AM-12:30PM
Poetry Reading (Palais 518A) Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18
11:00AM-1:00PM
(NP07) Masculinities/Femininities and Sexualities
Chair: Elizabeth F. Thompson, University of Virginia
Samira Aghacy, Lebanese American University
Jabra Ibrahim Jabbra's In Search of Walid Massoud: Masculinity and Resistance
Ken Seigneurie, Lebanese American University
Homosexuality in Rashid al-Daif's 'Awdat al-almAni ilA rushdih (The German Comes Back to His Senses)
Andrea Siegel, Columbia University
Interracial Encounters in Hebrew Culture of Early Zionism: A Gendered Perspective
Hanadi Al-Samman, University of Virginia
A Man Against His Will: Suppressed Homosexuality and Ruptured National Memory in Hoda Barakât's The Stone of Laughter
(NP22) Health Discourse I: General
Chair: Angel M. Foster, Ibis Reproductive Health
Sarah E. Tunney, New York University
Geniza Medicine: Plurality & the Consumer in Late Medieval Cairo
Mikiya Koyagi, University of Texas at Austin
Making the Future Mothers of the Iranian Nation: Female Physical Education under Reza Shah
Adina Keryn Batnitzky, University of Oxford
Carrying the Weight of Disease: Female Obesity in Morocco
Yucel Yanikdag, U of Richmond
Curing the Nation: Health and Eugenics Discourse among Medical Professionals in the Early Turkish Republic
(NP39) New Readings of Islamic Historiography
Chair: A. Nazir Atassi, Louisiana Tech University
Ghada Jayyusi-Lehn
Al-Ma'mun's Last Will: A New Reading of al-Tabari's Account
Heather Empey, McGill University
Was Ibn Tumart a Shafi'i Scholar?: An Appraisal of al-Subki's View
Mateo Farzaneh, UC Santa Barbara
Al-Mamun and a Sasanian Tradition
Rebecca Williams, University of South Alabama
The Role of Authorial Opinion in al-Tabari's Depiction of the Supernatural in the Life of the Prophet Muhammad
Malik Mufti, Tufts University
Jihad as Statecraft: War in the Political Thought of Ibn Khaldun
(NP48) Conflict and Change in Iraq
Chair: Mehran Kamrava, Georgetown University
Nida Alahmad, The New School University
Oil and the Corruption of Power: A look into the Politics and Flow of Iraqi Oil (1991-2003)
Kathryn Libal, University of Connecticul and Scott Harding, University of Connecticut
The Iraq War and the Politics of Iraqi Refugees
Marc A. Lemieux, Forum of Federations
Iraqi Democracy, Sovereign or Master Import?
(NP56) Regional Identities in the Ottoman Empire
Chair: Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Benedictine University
Zeynep Turkyilmaz, UCLA
Ambiguous Loyalties, Uncertain Conversions: the Struggle for the Kizilbas in the Nineteenth Century
Metin Atmaca, University of Texas at Austin
Competing for the Crown of Kurdish Baban Sanjaq: Alliance and Rivalry in the 19th Century Ottoman Baghdad
Karen A. Leal, St. John's University
Faux Foreign Observers in Foreign Lands: 'Persian' Travelers in Early Eighteenth Century Paris and Istanbul
Lale Can, New York University
A Bukharan in Istanbul: Sheikh Suleyman Efendi and the Central Asian-Ottoman Connection
Milena B. Methodieva, Princeton University
History and Propaganda or How Turks and Bulgarians Became Ethnic Brothers
(P024) Migration and Urban Integration (Professional, Civic, Social, Spatial) in Ottoman and Middle-Eastern Cities 18th-20th C.
Organized by Nora Lafi
Discussant: Johann Büssow, Free University, Berlin
Florian Riedler, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies
Seasonal Labour Migration in Late Ottoman Istanbul
Malte Fuhrmann, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (ZMO) Berlin
European Working Migrants in Late Ottoman Port Cities
Nora Lafi, Zentrum Moderner Orient
From Urban Charity to Municipal Assistance and from Precariousness to Integration: Rural Migrants in Ottoman Towns (18th c.-Early 20th c.)
Ulrike Freitag, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (ZMO) Berlin
The City and the Stranger: Jeddah in the 19th Century
Nelida Fuccaro, SOAS, University of London
Cities of Pearls and Oil: 'Foreigners', 'Nationals' and Urban Political Sociability in the Persian Gulf (c. 1880s-1960s)
(P025) The Arabic Ode: Formations and Transformations
Organized by Suzanne P. Stetkevych
Chair/Discussant: Muhsin J. al-Musawi, Columbia University
Jaroslav Stetkevych, University of Chicago
Transformations of the Abbasid Tardiyyah (Hunt Poem): 'Ali ibn al-Jahrm's We Walked Over Saffron Meadows
Raymond K. Farrin, American University of Kuwait
Reframing Defeat: Al-Mutanabbi's Panegyric to Sayf al-Dawla after the Kharshana Campaign
James T. Monroe, University of California, Berkeley
Hybridization in Andalusi-Arabic Poetry: The Case of the Zajal and the Muwashshaha
Suzanne P. Stetkevych, Indiana University
Imperialisms and Identities: Ahmad Shawqi's Nahj al-Burdah
(P031) Divergence or Convergence? The European Union and the United States Security Policies in the Middle East and North Africa
Organized by Francesco Cavatorta and Vincent Durac
This double session will be held from 11:00am to 4:00pm, with a break for lunch.
Chair: Vincent Durac, University College Dublin
Discussant: Robert Mortimer, Haverford College
Francesco Cavatorta, Dublin City U
EU and US Security Policies in the Middle East in Context
Haizam Amirah-Fernandez, Elcano Royal Institute and Irene Menendez, Juan March Institute
From the Barcelona Process to the Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiative: A Comparison of European and American
Democracy Promotion in the MENA Region
Patrick Holden, U of Plymouth
Cooperation or Competition? The US and the EU’s use of Economic Instruments to Further Their Political and Security Interests in North Africa
Eva Wegner, SWP and Miguel Pellicer, Humboldt U
Western Policies towards Islamist Inclusion in the MENA
(P035) Nationalism Across the Waters: Exploring a Neglected Marker of Identity in the Lives of Arab and Muslim Immigrants in the U.S.s
Organized by Hani Bawardi
Hani Bawardi, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Syria for the Syrians”: Nationalist Content in the Arabic-language Press in the U.S. before WW I
Eric Fritzler, Wayne State University
Rethinking Arab-Zionist Debates on Palestine before 1948: A Discussion of Methods, Styles, and Identities
Tara Lannen-Stanton, Wayne State University
Arab Nationalism at the Brooklyn Bridge: An Examination of the Nationalist Ideas of Ameen Rihani as a Arab-American
Alia Charara, University of Michigan, Dearborn
Lebanese American Responses to Israeli Militarism: A Construction of a New Lebanon?
Saeed Khan, Wayne State University
The Iraq War and the Emergence of New Construction of Arab Nationalism among Iraqi Americans in Metropolitan Detroit
(P046) Family, Gender and Law 18th-20th Centuries
Organized by Kenneth M. Cuno
Chair: Iris Agmon, Ben Gurion University
Discussant: Amira Sonbol, Georgetown University
Etty Terem, Harvard University
Fatwas and Family: Indigenous Interpretation in Late 19th Century Morocco
Kenneth M. Cuno, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Restitution of Conjugal Rights/Bayt al-Ta'a in Egyptian Law
Susanne Stein, SUNY Albany
So That Her Son Will Not Be a Burden Upon Her: Divorce, Migration, and Child Custody in Cairo, 1941-1946
Elizabeth Bishop, U of North Carolina, Wilmington
The Card in Her Purse: Citizenship and Gender in Arab Egypt
(P049) Revisiting al-Hamdani: New Perspectives on the Indigenous Language Communities of the South Arabian Periphery
Organized by Samuel Liebhaber
Chair: Gregory D. Johnsen, Princeton University
Daniel Martin Varisco, Hofstra University
Turning Ploughshares into Words: Dialectical Diversity in Yemeni Arabic
Nathalie Peutz, Princeton University
Reorienting Heritage: Poetic Exchanges Between Soqotra and the Gulf
Bonnie Glover Stalls, Independent Scholar and Shelagh G. Weir, University of London
The Syntax of Particles in Razihi
Samuel Liebhaber, University of California, Berkeley
Humayni Poetry in al-Mahra?
(P054) The Magic of Rituals and Rituals of Magic in the Persianate World
Organized by Derek Mancini-Lander
Chair: Kathryn Babayan, U of Michigan
Discussant: Engseng Ho, Harvard University
Derek Mancini-Lander, University of Michigan
Habitus, Blessing, and Authority: Mimetic and Contagious Modalities of Transmission in Early Modern Persianate Rites of Passage
Kathryn Babayan, University of Michigan
Passing Into Manhood in Safavi Craft Circles
A. Azfar Moin, University of Texas at Austin
The Magic of Mughal Paintings: Jahangiri Allegorical Paintings Reconsidered
(P083) The Palestine Police and the End of the Mandate: British, Arab and Jewish Perspectives
Organized by Eugene Rogan
Chair: Eugene Rogan, St. Antony's College, Oxford
John L. Knight, University of Oxford
Securing Zion? Public Security in Mandate Palestine
Yoav Alon, Tel Aviv University
Treading a Fine Line: The Jewish Segment of the Palestine Police
Adel Yahya, PACE, Ramallah
Arab Policemen in Mandate Palestine: Conflict of Loyalties
Eugene Rogan, St. Antony's College, Oxford
The British in the Palestine Police: Narratives of Adversity
(P118) Topics in Qur'anic Studies
Organized by Elias Muhanna
Chair/Discussant: Walid Saleh, University of Toronto
Alexander Key, Harvard University
The Status of Qur'anic Revelation: Al-Nawmi
Elias Muhanna, Harvard University
The Word and the Wound: The Meaning of Kalam in the Qur'an
Martin Nguyen, Harvard University
The Subtleties of the Subtleties: Investigating al-Qushayri's Sufi Commentary of the Qur'an
Naseem Surhio, Harvard University
Laying the Foundations of Sufi Exegesis: Al-Sulami's Haqa'iq al Tafsir
(P128) Art Without History?: Evaluating 'Arab' Art
Organized by Nada Shabout, Dina Ramadan, and Sarah Rogers
This double session will be held from 11:00am to 4:00pm, with a break for lunch.
Chairs: Nada Shabout, University of North Texas and Silvia Naef, Université de Genève
Discussant: Shiva Balaghi, New York U
Dina Ramadan, Columbia University
Visualizing the Nahda: Egyptian Artists' Collectives and Their Criticism during the Interwar Years
Sarah Rogers, MIT
Building a Market, Defining an Audience: Beirut's Gallery System, 1960s & 1970s
Katarzyna Pieprzak, Williams College
Art in the Streets: Modern Art, Museum Practice and the Urban Environment in Contemporary Morocco
Salwa Mikdadi, Independent Curator
Women and Institutionalization of Contemporary Art Practices in the Arab World
Rashad Salim, Internatl Network of Contemporary Iraqi Artists
Rethinking 'the Contemporary' in Arab Art
Anneka Lenssen, MIT
London's Arab Renaissance c. 1975
Nadine Khalil, American U of Beirut
Lebanese Cultural Workers and Artists: Navigating the Arab Cultural Terrain in New York and Beirut
Caecilia Pieri, EHESS, Paris/Amman Ahlia University
Modernity and its Post in Constructing an Arab Capital: Baghdad's Urban Space, Contexts and Questions
(P135) Learning about the Middle East through Youth Literature
Organized by Laurence O. Michalak
Chair: Laurence O. Michalak, American Institute for Maghrib Studies
Jean B. Campbell, Portland State University
Excellence in Youth Literature about the Middle East
Elsa Marston Harik, Bloomington, IN
An Author's Perspective on Literature for Youth about the Middle East
Jonathan Friedlander, UCLA
The Middle East In/and the American Graphic Novel
Claire Pettengill, Maret School and Zeina A. Seikaly, Georgetown University
Learning about the Arab World through Literature: A High School Curriculum Project
Special Session
(P138) On Hrant Dink and Armenian-Turkish Relations
Organized by Andras J. Riedlmayer and Richard G. Hovannisian
Chairs: Andras J. Riedlmayer, Harvard University and Richard G. Hovannisian, UCLA
Hratch Tchilingirian, Cambridge University
Hrant Dink before Hrant Dink: Armenians in Turkey
Fatma Müge Göçek, University of Michigan
Hrant Dink and Turkish-Armenian Dialogue
Levon Zekiyan, Universita Ca'Foscari, Venice
Hrant Dink's Innovative Approach to Armenian-Turkish Relations. Its Context, Challenge, and Prospects
Etyen Mahcupyan, Journalist/Writer, Turkey
Agos and the Hrant Dink Foundation: Looking at the Future
(RT001) Islamist Movements and Parliamentary Elections in the Arab World: Current Research
Organized by Nathan J. Brown, George Washington University
Chair: Jillian Schwedler, University of Massachusetts
Nathan J. Brown, George Washington University
Amr Hamzawy, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Samer Shehata, Georgetown University
Stacey Philbrick Yadav, University of Pennsylvania
Quinn Mecham, Middlebury College
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