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2007 Program
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20
1:30PM-3:30PM
(NP16) Islam and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa
Chair: Ayda Erbal, New York University
Sami E. Baroudi, Lebanese American University
In the Shadow of the Quran: Recent Islamist Discourse on the United States and American Foreign Policy
Basak Ozoral, McGill University
Islamic Economics and Morality
Azeemuddin Subhani, Islamic Financial Shariah Scholar
Restructuring the Islamic Financial System
Ermin Sinanovic, United States Naval Academy
Ending Modernity the Islamic Way: Islamic Revivalism as Development
(NP17) Contemporary Iranian Women's Literature
Chair: Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California, Irvine
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, McGill University
Revolutionary Neoclassicism? The Blend of the Old and the New in the Poetry of Simin Behbahani
Leila Pazargadi, UCLA
Packaging Identities: “Exotifying” Iranian Women Writers in the Diaspora
Marta Simidchieva, York University
Two Songs for Iran: Gender and Social Committment in the Poetry of Forough and Simin
Shahrzad Mojab, OISE-University of Toronto
Women Political Prisoners of Iran: Memoirs, Memories and Art
(NP28) Turkey's Relations with Europe and MENA
Chair: Octavius Pinkard, Christopher Newport University
Zana Citak Ayturk, Middle East Technical University
Turkish Islam in Europe: The Role of the Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) in the Conseil Francais du Culte Musulman
Hakki Gurkas, Kennesaw State University
Identity and Society: Local, National, and Global Negotiations of Identity in Modern Turkey
Rabia Karakaya Polat, Isik University
Desecuritization and Europeanization: Understanding Turkish Foreign Policy toward the Middle East
(NP32) Cultural Dimensions of Colonialism
Chair: James Whidden, Acadia University
Suha Kudsieh, University of Toronto
The Image of Edward Lane in the Arabic Sources
Fredrik Thomasson, European University Institute
Orientalists and the Looting of Artefacts in the Ottoman Empire
Anne Clement, University of Toronto
Tracing Back the Modernity of Colonial Rural Communities in ''Traditional'' Sources?: A Study of the Relationships between ‘Qadim’(Ancient) and ‘Jadid’ (New) in Early 20th Century Upper Egyptian Folk Songs
Mériam Belli, MIT
Decolonizing the Territorial Imagination: Postcolonial Urban Remapping and Imagery of the City of Port Said
(NP35) Mapping Place, Space and Memory
Kimberly W. Segall, Seattle Pacific University
Performing Loss, Claiming Identity: Raffo's Depiction of Iraqi Women
Murat Cem Menguc, University of Cambridge
Safai, the Sheikh, the Poet and the Collector of Memories
Ellen J. Amster, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Saints and the Islamic City: Geographies of the Sacred in Fes, Morocco (1500-1880)
Tarek Kahlaoui, University of Pennsylvania
The Creation and Propagation of the Mediterranean through Islamic Cartography
(NP47) Political Parties in Transformation
Chair: Tamir Moustafa, Simon Fraser University
Khaled Helmy, Dartmouth College
The Crescent, the Cross & the Ballot Box: The Inclusion-Moderation Hypothesis between Political Islam & Christian Democracy
Emily Regan Wills, New School for Social Research
Democracy, Citizenship and Women's Rights: Kuwait, 1999 and 2005
Ghada Al Madbouh, University of Maryland
Radicalism of Moderation?: Hamas's Transformation and the Prospects of a New Democratic Government
Ashraf Elsherif, Boston University
Transformation: Islamists Responses to Political Liberalization in Turkey and Egypt
Gunes Murat Tezcur, Loyola University Chicago
The Evolution of the Justice and Development Party: A Tale of Two Elections
(NP54) Palestinian Activism in Media and Arts
Chair: Nadia G. Yaqub, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Julie Norman, American University
Creative Activism: Youth Media in Palestine
Sama R. Alshaibi, U of Arizona
Without Papers
Chiara De Cesari, Stanford University
Cultural Heritage Beyond the State: The Healing Values of Palestinian Heritage Practices
(NP58) Global Engagement with the Middle East
Chair: Richard Cahill, Berea College
Dorota Rudnicka-Kassem, Jagiellonian University
Vatican and Islam: The Role of Paul VI and John Paul II in the Development of Christian-Muslim Dialogue
Yong-Bin Lee, Seoul National University
Changing Foreign Policy of China toward the Middle East in the Post-Cold War Era
Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos, UCLA
From the Mashreq to Mexico: Making Class in the Global Postcolonial
Faith J. Childress, Rockhurst University
Academics and the Cold War: The Soviet-Moslem Project
Hajer Ben Gouider Trabelsi, University of Montréal
Orientalizing Terrorism: Orientalism's Latest Mutation
(NP59) Historiographies Revisited
Chair: John J. Curry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Josh Hoffman, University of California, Santa Barbara
Historiography, Identity, Modernity: A Look at Two Historians' Portrayals of Muhammad 'Ali
Yoav Di-Capua, U of Texas at Austin
Islamist Historiography of Contemporary Egypt and Its Interlocutors
Mark Sedgwick, Aarhus University
Understanding Abduh: The Historiography of a Multipurpose Icon
(P015) Rethinking the Ottoman Military, 1876-1922
Organized by Ryan Gingeras and Ipek K. Yosmaoglu
Discussant: M. Sükrü Hanioglu, Princeton University
Janet Klein, University of Akron
Tribal Militias from the Wild West to the Wild East: U.S.-Ottoman Frontier Projects in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Ipek K. Yosmaoglu, University of Wisconson-Madison
Marching on an Empty Stomach: Gendarmerie Reform in Ottoman Macedonia
Mustafa Aksakal, American University
The Nation in Arms: Mass Mobilization in the Late Ottoman Empire
Ryan Gingeras, Long Island University, CW Post
Last Rites for a 'Pure Outlaw': Society, Historiography and the Ottoman Clandestine Service, 1914-1922
(P091) Spiritual and Intellectual Networks in the 14th-15th Centuries: Intersections and Patterns
Organized by Ertugrul Okten
Chair: Jamil Ragep, McGill U
Discussant: Cornell H. Fleischer, University of Chicago
Shahzad Bashir, Stanford University
Hagiographical Representations of Death as a Source for Religious and Social History of the Later Medieval Period
Evrim Binbas, University of Chicago
The Making of a Timurid Historian: Sharaf al-Din 'Ali Yazdi and His Intellectual Network
Ertugrul Okten, University of Chicago
The Kubrawiyya-Philosophy Relationship in the 15th Century and Its Perception
(P103) Egypt's Generation X? Pop Cultural Readings of Ahmed Alaidy's ''Being Abbas El Abd''
Organized by Valerie Anishchenkova
Discussant: Kari Neely, Univesity of Michigan
Ghada Badawi, Columbia University
My Egyptian Generation through the Lens of Ahmed Alaidy's Being Abbas el-Abd
Valerie Anishchenkova, Tufts University
Being Abbas el-Abd: Translation/Relocation of the Egyptian Novel into American Sociocultural Paradigm
Bryce Adams, University of Michigan
Mr. Pitt Speaks Egyptian: Transposing Fight Club Cool into Cairo Culture
Kari Neely, University of Michigan
Being Abbas el-Abd: An Egyptian Generation X?
(P125) ''The Essence of Morocco for £30 a Night'': Investigating Tourism's Social Impact in Morocco
Organized by Lauren Wagnerand Miriam Gould
Maria Curtis, U of Houston-Clear Lake
The Fes Festival of World Sacred Music: Faith, Tourism and Friction
Miriam Gould, The University of Texas at Austin
"'Magical' Absolutely!": "'Magical' Absolutely!": International Tourists' Engagement of Place Jemaa el Fna
Lauren Wagner, University College London
Les Vacances: Leisure and Consumption of the Moroccan Diaspora in Morocco
(RT003) Middle East Studies Programs at Non-Research I Universities
Organized by Jeffrey A. VanDenBerg
Chair: Jeffrey A. VanDenBerg, Drury University
Gary Garrison, Council for the International Exchange of Scholars
June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University
Shari Lowin, Stonehill College
Lisa Pollard, U of North Carolina, Wilmington
Curtis R. Ryan, Appalachian State University
Seteney Shami, Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
Ranjit Singh, University of Mary Washington
Christopher Taylor, Drew University
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