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2007 Meeting Program
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18
8:30AM-10:30AM
(NP09) Myths of Persia
Chair: Yass Alizadeh, University of Connecticut
Manya Saadi Nejad, Concordia University
Culture, Myth, and Artistic Production in Contemporary Iran
Pouneh Saeedi, University of Toronto
Monstrous Bodies in The Shahnameh
Nasrin Askari, University of Toronto
Firdausi's Shahnameh as a Mirror for Princes
Kathryn Johnston, Indiana University
The Social and Political Power of Unrecognized Kinship in the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi
(NP21) Gender in the Public Sphere, Art, Literature: Late 19th Century
Chair: Roger Deal, U of South Carolina Aiken
Wendy M. K. Shaw, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art
Women Artists in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic
Hulya Yildiz, University of Texas at Austin
Literary Public Sphere of Ottoman Women in the Nineteenth Century Istanbul
George W. Gawrych, Baylor University
Women in the Thought of Shemseddin Sami (1850-1904)
Amira Sonbol, Georgetown University
Gender Violence and Class in Nineteenth Century Egypt
(NP30) Media and Education in the Middle East
Chair: Mirna Lattouf, Arizona State University
Betty S. Anderson, Boston University
Rethinking American Missionary Proselytizing: The Case of the American University of Beirut (AUB)
Iren N. Ozgur, University of Oxford
The Effects of the 1997 Reforms on Consumers of Islamic Education
Evren Yalaz, Rutgers University
Teachers in the Turkish Republic: Mediating between State Ideology and Students
Jonathan Smolin, Dartmouth College
Crime Doesn't Pay: The Journal of National Security and the Origins of Modern Crime Journalism in Morocco
Mezna Qato, University of Oxford
On Reading a Jordanian Primer, c. 1952
(NP36) Expressions of Arab Identities
Chair: Joseph Zeidan, Ohio State University
Maysa Abou Youssef Hayward, Ocean College, NJ
Negotiating and Deconstructing Dynamics in Arab American Literature
Galeet Dardashti, University of Texas at Austin
Arab Music and the Politics of Culture-Brokering in Israel
Carol Fadda-Conrey, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia
Writing Arab-American Identity Post 9/11
Bruce Fudge, Ohio State University
A Handful of Saints: The Wise and the Weird in Modern Arabic Fiction
(NP40) Topics in Islamic Thought, Science, and Philosophy
Chair: Hamoud Salhi, CSU, Dominguez Hills
Cecile Bonmariage, Princeton University
Mulla Sadra on Fakhr al-Din al-Razi's Mabahith al-Mashriqiya
Rizwan Mohammad, McGill University
Suhrawardi's Analysis of the Problem of an Infinite Regress of Beings in the Ontology of Avicenna
Sara Verskin, Princeton University
Philosophy, Jurisprudence, and Piety in Ibn Rushd's Fasl al-Maqal (Averroes' Decisive Treatise)
Martha E. Morgan, Rochester Institute of Technology
Scientific and Technological Knowledge of Metals as Transcendant Experience
(NP49) History of Elites in Palestine
Chair: Maryanne A. Rhett, Washington State University
Yeliz Baloglu-Cangay, Brandeis University
Ottoman-Zionist Diplomacy: The Repercussions of Abdülhamid-Herzl Correspondence
Liora Halperin, UCLA
Cross-Cultural Orientalism: The Palestine Oriental Society in Jerusalem (1920-1948)
Laura Robson, Yale University
Demanding a Voice: Christian Palestinians in the Greek Orthodox Church and the British Mandate
Itamar Radai, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Collapse of the Palestinian-Arab Middle Class in 1948: The Case of Qatamon
Noah Haiduc-Dale, New York University
The Influence of Foreign Clergy on Palestinian Christian Political Participation during the British Mandate
(NP60) Across Contested Territories: Discourse, Narrative, Configuration, Reevaluation
Chair: Kimberly Katz, Towson University
Michael J. Reimer, American University in Cairo
The Emir and the Mufti: A Comparative Study in Jordanian and Palestinian Nationalist Historiography
Clea Lutz Bunch, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Re-Evaluating the 1967 War: Hussein, Israel and the Attack on Samua
Carol Bardenstein, University of Michigan
Palestinian and Israeli Third Zones: Fantasies of Ethnicity and Nationalism
May Ahmar, Columbia University
Discourse Analysis, Case Study: Lebanon-Israel War
(P008) Ottoman Environmental History: Problems, Sources, Directions
Organized by Alan Mikhail
Chair/Discussant: Richard W. Bulliet, Columbia University
Alan Mikhail, University of California, Berkeley
Water Be Dammed: A History of Irrigation in Ottoman Fayyoum
Sam White, Columbia University
The Little Ice Age and the Celali Rebellion
Gunhan Borekci, Ohio State University
Narrative Sources for a Reconstruction of Climate in the Ottoman Empire (ca. 1580-1680)
Nukhet Varlik, University of Chicago
The Rise of the Ottoman Empire and Changing Disease Balances in the Old World of the Mediterranean (1300-1600)
(P040) Competing Discourses of Justice and Violence in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries
Organized by Tolga U. Esmer
Chair: Hakan Karateke, Harvard University
Discussant: Jane Hathaway, Ohio State University
Stefan Winter, Université du Québec à Montréal
Perceptions of Imperial and Local Sovereignty in 18th-Century Mt. Lebanon
Basak Tug, New York University
Governing Sexual Violence in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Anatolia
Betul Basaran, St. Mary's College of Maryland
Public Order and Immigrants in Istanbul at the End of the 18th Century
Frederick F. Anscombe, Birkbeck College, London
Tepedelenli Ali of Yanya: Pasha and Rebel
Tolga U. Esmer, University of Chicago
Bandits and Bureaucrats Revisited: Acknowledging Competing Discourses of Justice and Rebellion in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th Centuries
(P058) National and Local Strategies for Competition and Survival in the Global Economy
Organized by Gregory White, Smith College
Chair: Roger Owen, Harvard University
Discussant: Karen Pfeifer, Smith College
Marsha Pripstein Posusney, Bryant University
Free Trade and Freer Unions? Globalization, Labor Market Reforms, and Workers' Organizations in the Arab World
Pete W. Moore, Case Western University
The War Economy of Iraq in Comparative and Regional Perspective
Mine Eder, Bogazici University
Informal Transnationalism?: The Underside of Turkey's Economic Globalization
(P063) Teaching ''Educated Spoken Arabic''
Organized by Zeinab Ahmed Taha
Chair: Zeinab Ahmed Taha, American University in Cairo
Zeinab Ahmed Taha, American University in Cairo
Educated Spoken Arabic: Reality or Misnomer
Hebatalla Salem, American University in Cairo
Syntatic and Morphological Features of Egyptian Educational Spoken Arabic
Shahira Yacout, American University in Cairo
Phonological and Lexical Aspects of Egyptian Educational Spoken Arabic
Sherifa Attalla, American U in Cairo and Abbas Al-Tonsi, American University in Cairo
Educated Spoken Arabic and Teaching the Listening Skill
Raghda El-Essawi, American University in Cairo
Role of Teacher Training in Developing Spoken Skills
(P067) Modern Anxieties in Iran: New Perspectives on Society and Culture, 1800-2007
Organized by Ranin Kazemi and Farzin Vejdani
Discussants: Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware and Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, University of Toronto
Arash Khazeni, Claremont McKenna College
On the Eastern Borderlands of Iran: The Baluch in Nineteenth-Century Persian Travel Books
Serdar Poyraz, Ohio State University
Science, Materialism and Intellectuals: A Comparative Study of the Early Influence of European Materialistic Thought in Turkey and Iran in the Late Nineteenth Century
Ranin Kazemi, Yale University
The Fantastic Aura of a Herb: The Dynamics of Opium Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Iran
Farzin Vejdani, Yale University
Alternative Constructions of the Secular Nation: Folklore Studies in Pahlavi Iran
Kaveh Khoshnood, Yale School of Public Health
Social Stigma, Homosexuality and Transsexuality in the Islamic Republic of Iran
(P084) Cities at Stake: Urban Life in Bilad al-Sham
Organized by James A. Reilly
Chair: Peter Sluglett, University of Utah
Discussant: Jens Hanssen, University of Toronto
James Grehan, Portland State U
Public Ritual and Popular Culture in Syrian Towns, c. 1500-1800
Ruba Kana’an, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
From ‘City-Centre’ to ‘Public Square’: Local Discourses on Modernity in Jaffa c. 1900
James A. Reilly, University of Toronto
Recent Lebanese Histories of Ottoman Saida
Mafalda Ade Winter, University of Tübingen
Waqf Tenancy and Consular Jurisprudence in Late Ottoman Aleppo
(P096) Evaluating Memory Campaigns in Lebanon
Organized by Sune Haugbolle
Discussant: Patrice C. Brodeur, University of Montréal
Craig A. Larkin, University of Exeter
Negotiating the Lebanese Past: A New Generation Forgets to Remember?
Pamela Chrabieh, University of Montreal / St. Josef University
Building a Culture of Peace and Conviviality: Contributions of the 25-40 Lebanese Age Group
Sune Haugbolle, University of Oxford
Into the Spoken: The Development of War Memory in Lebanon 1990-2005
Mark A. Farha, Harvard University
Fleeing Forward from One War of the Others to the Next?
(P098) Dispossessions, Reparations, and Claims Against Post-Independent North African States
Organized by Michael R. Fischbach
Chair: Michael R. Fischbach, Randolph-Macon College
Discussant: Ian Lustick, University of Pennsylvania
Susan Slyomovics, UCLA
North African Reparation Histories: From Vichy to Post-Independence Commissions
Mustapha Kamal, University of Illinois at Chicago
Muddling Mea Culpa: Redress or Democracy?
Fadoua Loudiy, Duquesne University
Counting and Accounting for the Years of Lead in Morocco
Joelle Bahloul, Indiana University
Soldier or Prisoner?: The Colonial Dispossession of Algerian Jewish Memory of WWII
Michael R. Fischbach, Randolph-Macon College
The Complexities Surrounding Jewish Property Claims against Libya
(P105) 'Arab Nationalism from Below': Pan-Arabism as Lived Experience in the 20th Century Middle East and North Africa
Organized by Peter Wien
Chair: Israel Gershoni, Tel Aviv University
Discussant: Christoph Schumann, University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Michael Provence, University of California, San Diego
The Intellectual Bases of Popular Insurgency and Nationalism in the Arab East, 1920-1950
Orit Bashkin, University of Chicago
Iraqi Pan Arabism(s): The Dynamics of a Fragmented Discourse
Peter Wien, University of Maryland
A Festival of Pan-Arab Nationalism: The Funeral of Iraq's Former Prime Minister Yasin al-Hashimi in Damascus in 1937
(P127) Armenians in Canada: Production and Transmission of Culture
Organized by Aida Boudjikanian
Chair : Aida Boudjikanian, Université de Montréal
Discussant: Sima Aprahamian, Concordia University
Nellie Hogikyan, University of Montreal
Armenianness in Atom Egoyan's Films
Gabriella Djerrahian, McGill University
Preliminary Comparisons on a Diasporic Movement: Hip Hop from Here to There
Viken Tufenkjian, Université de Montréal
A Haze of Petals: The Propagation of Cultural Patrimony by Canadian-Armenian Writers
(RT004) Contemporary Iraqis: Cultural Voices of Resistance
Organized by Nadje Al-Ali and Deborah Alkamano
Chair Deborah Alkamano, University of Southern California
Sinan Antoon, New York University
Nada Shabout, University of North Texas
Rashad Salim, International Network of Contemporary Iraqi Artists
Ella Habib Shohat, New York University
(TC001) Afghanistan: Change and Challenges
Organized by Ashraf Zahedi
Session Leader: Ashraf Zahedi, University of California, Berkeley
Shahla Haeri, Boston University
Diane Tober, University of California, San Francisco
Sarah Kamal, London School of Economics and Social Science
Zuzanna Olszewska, University of Oxford
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