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2007 Program
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18
4:30PM-6:30PM
(NP46) Participation and Protest in the Middle East
Chair: Mojtaba Mahdavi, University of Alberta
A.M. Spiegel, University of Oxford
Between Party and Movement: Competing Islamisms in Contemporary Morocco
Andrew Barwig, University of Denver
How Electoral Rules Matter: Voter Turnout in Moroccan Elections
Lindsay Benstead, Yale U
Public Perceptions of the Parliament and Confidence in Democracy in Morocco and Algeria
Anne Price, Ohio State University
Protest Potential in the Middle East: An Analysis of Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Turkey
(NP51) Islamic Feminisms
Chair: Ozlem Sensoy, Simon Fraser U
Hilary E. Kalmbach, University of Oxford, St. Antony's College
Female Islamic Leadership in Damascus: A New Kind of Feminism?
Ruth Roded, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Algerian Islamic Feminism: Assia Djebar's Loin de Medine (1991)
Raja Rhouni, Mohammed V University, Rabat
Reconsidering Islamic Feminism: Perils and Prospects
Line Khatib, McGill University
The Politics of Visuals and the Visual Interpretation of the Muslim Woman in North America
(P004) The Renegade in Ottoman Context in the Early Modern Era
Organized by Palmira Brummett
Chair: Virginia Aksan, McMaster University
Discussant: Leslie Peirce, New York University
Palmira Brummett, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
The Renegade in Ottoman Space: A Taxonomy
Gabor Agoston, Georgetown University
Empire, Knowledge and Brain Gain: Foreign Servants and Military Renegades in the Ottoman Empire
E. Natalie Rothman, University of Toronto Scarborough
Conversion and Subjecthood in the Early Modern Venetian-Ottoman Contact Zone
Claire Norton, St. Mary's University College
Lust, Greed, Torture and Identity: Narrations of Conversion and the Creation of the Early Modern "Renegade"
(P010) Creating an Islamic Cultural Space: Contested Notions of Art, Leisure and Entertainment
Organized by Karin van Nieuwkerk
Chair: Karin van Nieuwkerk, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Cynthia Becker, Boston University
The Influence of Sufism and Calligraphy on Contemporary Moroccan Art: Lyrical Mysticism or Self-Censorship?
Christa Salamandra, Lehman College, CUNY
Of Slings and Arrows: Syrian Television Makers between Secularism and Islamism
Jonas Otterbeck, Malmö University
Battling Over the Public Sphere: Islamic Reactions on the Music of Today
Mark Levine, UC Irvine
Heavy Metal Islam: Ozzy vs. Ossama and the Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East
Joska Samuli Schielke, University of Mainz
Boredom and Despair in Rural Egypt
Karin van Nieuwkerk, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Repentant Artists in Egypt: Debating Gender, Art and Religion
(P016) Specters of Europe in Modern Egyptian Culture
Organized by Salah D. Hassan
Chair : Najat Rahman, Université de Montréal
Discussant: Mona El-Ghobashy, Barnard College
Salah D. Hassan, Michigan State University
From Ar-Rashid to Luxor: Orientalism, Modern Archeology and the Aura of Classical Egypt
Hosam Aboul-Ela, University of Houston
Against Europe: The Early Twentieth Century Egyptian Intellectual's Critique of Orientalism
Yaseen Noorani, University of Arizona
The Moral Discourse of Modernity: Orientalism and Gender in Early 20th Century Egypt
Christina E. Civantos, University of Miami
Reading and Writing the Egyptian Woman Intellectual: Nabawiyya Musa’s Ta’rikhi bi-Qalami
(P027) Educating the Native in Algeria, Libya, and Lebanon
Organized by Osama Abi-Mershed
Chair/Discussant: Heather J. Sharkey, University of Pennsylvania
Osama Abi-Mershed, Georgetown University
The Moral Conquest: Colonial Education in Algeria, 1830-1848
Sara Scalenghe, Indiana University, Bloomington
The Italo-Arab School in Colonial Libya
Nadya Sbaiti, Smith College
The Education of History in Lebanon, 1920-1945
Zeena Zakharia, Teachers College, Columbia U
Language, Schooling, and the (Re-)Construction of Identity in Lebanon
(P041) Displacing the Nation: Diaspora, (Im)mobility and Empire in the Modern Middle East
Organized by Omar Dewachi
Chair: Omar Dewachi, Harvard University
Omar Dewachi, Harvard University
From Professional Hajj to Professional Refugee: Journeys of the Iraqi Doctor to Britain
Didem Danis, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Limits of Transnational: Iraqi Christian Transit Migrants' Networks in Turkey
Senay Ozden, Duke University
Borders of Belonging: Palestinian Refugees and the Politics of Opposition in Syria
Stefanie Nanes, Hofstra University
The Impact of Iraqi Refugees on Jordanian Perceptions of Citizenship and National Identity
Are Knudsen, Chr. Michelsen Institute
From Guerrillas to Guests: Changing Political Relations of Palestinian Refugees in Post-War Lebanon
(P044) The Wild Card of Memory, Challenging the Present: Egyptian, Palestinian and Armenian Historical Consciousness
Organized by Carel Bertram and Mohammad Salama
Carel Bertram, San Francisco State University
New Signposts on the Landscape of Memory: Armenian Pilgrims in Modern Turkey
Mohammad Salama, San Francisco State University
Re-Membering Nasser: Egyptian Nationalism between Memory and History
Rochelle Davis, Georgetown U
Turning Memory Into History: Palestinian Narratives of Village Life Before 1948
Salim Tamari, UC Berkeley/Bir Zeit University
Soldiers' Diaries and the Reconstruction of WWI in Popular Memory: Palestine and Anatolia
Issam Nassar, Illinois State University
Palestinian Articulation of the Past: The Role of al-Nakba as a Collective Memory
(P081) New Approaches to Tafsir
Organized by Walid Saleh
Chair: Walid Saleh, University of Toronto
Discussant: Andrew Rippin, University of Victoria
Suleiman A. Mourad, Smith College
Al-Hakim al-Jishumi (d. 494/1101) and the Mu'tazilite Tradition of Qur'anic Exegesis
Tariq Jaffer, University of Oregon
The Systematization of God's Names and Attributes in Razi's (d. 1210) Theology
Karen Bauer, Princeton University
How Does Customary Practice Affect Qur'anic Interpretation? The Case of Household Roles
Ludmila Zamah, U of Pennsylvania
Narrative Meets Legal Exegesis: The Hermeneutical Principles of Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Qurtubi (d. 671/1272)
(P108) Ethnic Politics in the Post-Revolutionary Ottoman Empire (1908-1918)
Organized by Bedross Der Matossian
Chair/Discussant: Aykut Kansu, Ufuk University
Bedross Der Matossian, Columbia University
Political Discourse among the Ethnic Groups after the 1908 Revolution
Vangelis Kechriotis, Bogazici University
On the Margins of National Historiography: The Greek Ittihatci Emmanouil Emmanouilidis: Opportunist or Ottoman Patriot?
Yuval Ben-Bassat, University of Chicago
A Zionist Torn between Two Worlds: Aharon Eizenberg at the Jerusalem Branch of the Committee on Union and Progress
Eyal Ginio, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The End of the '1908 Spirit': The Balkan Wars and the Marginalization of the Non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire
(P110) Politicizing Environmental Change in the Middle East
Organized by Jeannie Sowers and Murat Arsel
Chair/Discussant: Arang Keshavarzian, Concordia University
Jeannie Sowers, University of New Hampshire and Murat Arsel, Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands
Environmental Narratives, National Imaginaries, and Transformation of Nature in the Middle East
Sarah Harris, University of Texas at Austin
Environment, History, and Politics on Cyprus
Mohammadreza G. Eskandari, Clark University
Sweet for Whom?: Sugar-Cane Plantation in Southern Iran and the Experience of Development from Above
Fikret Adaman, Bogazici University
Corruption, Environmental Regulation and the Turkish State: The Case of Lake Burdur
(P114-II) The Arab Literary Elite and the Predicament of the Nation-State, Part II
Organized by Muhsin J. al-Musawi, Columbia University and Moneera Al-Ghadeer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chair: Christopher Stone, Hunter College, CUNY
Jeffrey Sacks, Columbia University
Poking Holes in the Night Sky: Muhammad al-Muwaylih's Hadith 'Isa ibn Hisham
Alexander Elinson, Hunter College, CUNY
The Family Home and the Moroccan Nation-State: From Abdelkarim Ghallab to Mohammed Berrada
Sage Goellner, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Moving Memories: Leila Sebbar's Mes Algeries en France
Dina A. Amin, Villanova University
Disorientation and the Metropolis in A Tiller of Waters
(P133) Field Research in Iran: Unsung Sources of Reform
Organized by Hossein Akhavi-Pour
Roksana Bahramitash, McGill U
Iranian Islamic Women as the Other: A Class Analysis of the Role of Women in the Informal Economy and Islamic Micro-Credit
Niki Akhavan, Washington, DC
The Other Weblogistan: Gender and the Narrative of Liberation on Line
Louise Halper, Washington and Lee University
Authority, Modernity and Gender-Relevant Legislation in Iran
Goli Rezai-Rushti, University of Western Ontario
Women, Higher Education and the Islamic Revolution in Iran
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Municipal Elections and Democracy in Iran
(P134) Deciphering UN Security Council Resolution 242 After Forty Years
Organized by George E. Bisharat
Chair/Discussant: George E. Bisharat, Hastings College of the Law
Richard Falk, University of California, Santa Barbara
UNSCR 242: A Benchmark for Peace or a Geopolitical Gambit?
John Quigley, Ohio State University
Security Council Resolution 242 and the Right of Repatriation
Jamil Dakwar
People without Borders for Borders without People: Demography and Peacemaking under UNSCR 242
Omar Dajani, University of the Pacific
The Resolution that Lacked Resolve: Tracing the Influence of 242 on Arab-Israeli Peace Talks
Michael Lynk, University of Western Ontario
Conceived in Law: The Legal Foundations of Resolution 242
(RT010) Language Instruction through Film: Some Turkish Models
Organized by Erika H. Gilson
Chair: Erika H. Gilson, Princeton University
Nihan Ketrez, Yale University
Roberta Micallef, Boston University
Selim Kuru, University of Washington
Sylvia W. Önder, Georgetown University
(TC006) Islamic Philosophy, Contours and Center
Organized by Charles E. Butterworth
Session Leader: Charles E. Butterworth, University of Maryland
Paul E. Walker, University of Chicago
Thérèse-Anne Druart, Catholic University of America
David DiPasquale, Boston College
(P142) Professional Development Workshop for Graduate Students
Marketing the Academic:
Curricula Vitae, Job Applications, and the Interview Process
Chair: Ellen Fleischmann, University of Dayton
Dina Rizk Khoury, George Washington University
On the Interview Process
Rex Brynen, McGill University
On the Curriculum Vitae and the Job Talk
Ziad A. Fahmy, Cornell University
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