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2007 Program
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20
11:00AM-1:00PM
(NP14) Islamic Jurisprudence: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Chair: Steven Judd, Southern Connecticut State University
Nadia Nader, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Mihna and the Politics of Memory
Ahmed El Shamsy, Harvard University
An Alternative Approach to Twentieth-century Islamic Legal Reform: The Forgotten Magnum Opus of Shihab al-Din al-Husayni
Leonard Wood, Harvard University
Tanzir Literature and the Effort to Revive Islamic Jurisprudence in Egypt, 1936-1955
Irfana Hashmi, New York University
The Enormities of Playing Chess and Backgammon: Deciphering Ibn Taymiyya's Maqasid Theory
(NP25) New Media Politics in the Arab World
Chair: Andrea L. Stanton, American University of Beirut
Albrecht Hofheinz, University of Oslo
The Internet and Democratization in the Middle East: A Plea for Greater Historical and Social Contextualization
Kristin Shamas, University of Oklahoma
Information Communication Technologies and National Identity in South Lebanon
Courtney C. Radsch, American University
The Relational Logic of Journalism and Politics in the Arab World
Ora Szekely, McGill University
Blogging as Political Mobilization in the Arab Middle East
Roxanne D. Marcotte, University of Queensland
Representations in Cyberspace
(NP50) Literature and Poetics in the Palestinian Imagination
Chair: Roland D. McKay, University of Michigan
Kevin W. Martin, Indiana University-Bloomington
Adnan al-Malki, the Martyr of Arabism: Murder, Masculinity, and Secular Sacrifice in Post-WWII Syria
Nathalie Khankan, University of California, Berkeley
Kam Tar Taram Tar: Reading Ghada Shafi'i and New Palestinian Poetry
Noémie Crépeau, Université de Montréal
About Otherness: From Violence to Conscience
Montserrat Rabadan, Independent Scholar - Chicago, IL
Female Ogres and Genies in Palestinian Fairytales
(NP57) Istanbul and Regional Networks, 16th-17th Centuries
Chair: Frederick F. Anscombe, Birkbeck College, London
Diana Abouali, Dartmouth College
Lingering Slavery: Manumission and Social Attitudes in 16th-17th Century Jerusalem
Ibrahim K. Sahin, University of Chicago
Intertextuality and Narrative Strategies in the Work of Celalzade Mustafa
York Norman, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
The Displacement of Bosnian Elites: 1463-1530
James E. Baldwin, New York University
Lobbying the Sultan: Petitions and the Shari'ah Court
(NP64) Post-Ottoman Questions
Chair: Emrah Sahin, McGill University
Christopher Lintecum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Coming of Age: Childhood Identities and the Imagining of Nation in Greater Syria, 1900-1925
Renee Worringer, University of Guelph
'Millets in Arms' or Ottoman 'Other'?: Arab Reportage of the Armenian Genocide and Aftermath
Ioannis Moutsis, SOAS, University of London
Greek and Turkish Consuls in Cyprus of the 1920s: The Role of Kyros Kyrou and Ali Asaf Bey
(NP67) Human Rights in the Middle East
Chair: Simona Livescu, UCLA
Melinda Negron, University of Florida
The Politics of Human Rights Activism in Turkey (1986-2006)
Osire Glacier, McGill University
The Contribution of Arab States to Universal Rights
(P018) Linguistic Areas in AFL: Problems and Suggested Solutions
Organized by Mona Kamel Hassan
Chair: Mona Kamel Hassan, American University in Cairo
Azza Mahmoud Hassanein, American University in Cairo
Adverbs: Why Are They Avoided in AFL Learners' Writings?
Hala Yehia Abd-El-Wahab, American University in Cairo
Factors Affecting AFL Learners' Reading Comprehension
Nora M. Abdel Wahab, American University in Cairo
The Role of Context in Teaching Active Participles
Mona Kamel Hassan, American University in Cairo
AFL Learners in the Dilemma of CCA Idioms and Expressions
(P038) Rethinking Categories of Representation in Modern Iran
Organized by Samad Alavi
Chair: Wali Ahmadi, University of California, Berkeley
Omid Sanjideh, University of California, Berkeley
Zeyn al-Abedin Maraghei: Mediated Visions, Blurred Understandings
Kevin Schwartz, University of California, Berkeley
The Memory and Legend of Howard C.
Baskerville: American Teacher, Patriot and Shaheed
Samad Alavi, University of California, Berkeley
Challenging Exile: On Translating a “Political” Poem by Esmail Khoi
Kahayar Beigi, University of California, Berkeley
My Body, My Pain: Ebrahim Hatamikia's Cinema of War
(P048) Tribe, Ethnicity and State: The Multiple Aspects of the Berber World
Organized by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
This double session will be held from 8:30am to 1:00pm.
Chairs/Discussants: Lisa Anderson, Columbia University and Azzedine Layachi, St. John's University
Paul Silverstein, Reed College
Amazigh Activism and the Racial Politics of Space in Southeastern Morocco
Samir Ben-Layashi, Tel-Aviv University
Secularism in the Moroccan Amazigh Discourse
Jane Goodman, Indiana University
Technologies of Secularism among Algerian Berbers
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, Tel Aviv University
State Strategies and Berber/Amazigh Responses in Morocco and Algeria: Containment and Inclusion vs. Moving the Goal Posts
Hugh Roberts, Society for Algerian Studies
A Berber Polity and Its Institutions: The Non-Segmentary Nature of Political Organizations in Pre-Colonial Kabylia and the Kabyle Political Tradition
Katherine E. Hoffman, Northwestern University
Language, Law, and Islam in Rural Morocco under the French Protectorate
David L. Crawford, Fairfield University
Unequal Times: Rural Berber Households in the Global Economy
Hamoud Salhi, California State University, Dominguez Hills
The Kabylian Civil Society and the Struggle for Identity Recognition
(P053) Strategies of Authoritarian Governance in Comparative Perspective
Organized by Steven Heydemann
Chair: Steven Heydemann, US Institute of Peace
Discussant: Pete W. Moore, Case Western University
Steven Heydemann, US Institute of Peace
Upgrading Authoritarianism in the Arab World
April L. Longley, Georgetown University
Shifting Light in the
Qamariyya: The Reinvention of Patronage Networks in Contemporary Yemen
Bassam Haddad, St. Joseph’s U
Failing to Fall: Syria’s Regime Strategies of Resuscitating Authoritarian Rule
Oliver Schlumberger, German Development Institute (DIE)
Non-Democratic Legitimacy and the Study of Authoritarianism in the Arab World
(P068) Gender and Broader Socio-Political Context
Organized by Mounira M. Charrad
Chair: Mounira M. Charrad, University of Texas at Austin
Mounira M. Charrad, University of Texas at Austin
Linking Gender to Broader Politics: Theoretical Challenges
Umut F. Bespinar-Ekici, University of Texas at Austin
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Local and International Actors Defining Women's Rights in Turkey
Moulouk Berry, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Women's Rights at the Intersection of Shi'a and American Legal Discourse in Michigan
Rita Stephan, University of Texas at Austin
Fairer But Not Fair: Personal Status Code in the Lebanese Protestant Church
(P069) Narrating Home and Homelands: Space, Place, and Displacement in Comparative Arab Diasporas
Organized by Rabab Abdulhadi and Rachad Antonius
Chair: Rachad Antonius, University of Quebec in Montreal
Discussant: Rabab Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University
Christoph Schumann, University of Bern
Bilingualism and Political Communication in the Diaspora: Arab-American Publications in the USA and Turkish-German Magazines in Germany
Nadje Al-Ali, Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, U of Exeter
Memory and 'Truth' in the Diaspora: Constructing a Modern History of Iraqi Women
Fadwa Allabadi, Al-Quds Arab University
Home, Identity and Dispossession of Palestinian Refugee Women
Akram Khater, North Carolina State U
Becoming Syrian in America: A Global Geography of Ethnicity and Nation
(P077) Egypt and Christian Cultures
Organized by Heather J. Sharkey
Discussant: Donald M. Reid, Georgia State University
Anthony Shenoda, Harvard University
The Hidden Debate: The Making and Unmaking of a Contemporary Coptic Saint
Paul Sedra, Simon Fraser University
Faith in the Race: Science and the Narrative of Coptic Exceptionalism
Heather J. Sharkey, University of Pennsylvania
An Egyptian in China: Ahmad Fahmy and the Making of World Christianities
Grégoire Delhaye, Georgetown University/IEP Aix-en-Provence
Alternative Narratives of Coptic Identity: Voices from the Diaspora
(RT009) Iraq's Identity Before and After 2003 through the Arts, Literature and Media: Mixed Agenda and Occurrences
Organized by Nada Shabout and Jabbar Al-Obaidi
Jabbar Al-Obaidi, Bridgewater State College
Ali J. Al-Allaq, United Arab Emirates University
Mohammed Al-Sadoun, Defense Language Institute
(TC008) Majorities and Minorities in the Middle East and North Africa
Organized by Benjamin White, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Session Leader: Howard Eissenstat, Seton Hall University
Joel Beinin, American University in Cairo
Nefissa N. Naguib, University of Bergen
Janet Klein, University of Akron
Sharon Vance, Northern Kentucky University
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