You must be a current MESA member for the Secretariat to process your abstract. For foreign scholars and persons who deem themselves outside the field of Middle East studies, MESA may consider granting a one-time exemption to the membership rule. If you have been a MESA member or participated in the annual meeting in the past, you would not be eligible for the one-time exemption. To request a one-time exemption, please go here.

Abstract of paper submitted as part of a preorganized panel
Abstract of individually submitted paper (not part of a preorganized panel)

Name (as it should appear on your badge and in the program)

Affiliation (as it should appear on your badge and in the program; institution only)

Email Address
(required)

Phone (where we can reach you)
Is this work home cell

Most of the communication regarding your participation in the MESA annual meeting will be sent via email. Communication that it sent by post will be mailed to the address on file where you receive your MESA publications.

Does your paper have a co-author who will also be a co-presenter? If so, please provide the name and email address of that person. Please note that MESA only lists in the program people who are presenting at the meeting. If your co-author is not going to be a co-presenter, please do not list him/her below. Simply give him/her proper attribution on the title page of your paper.

Co-author Email

Audiovisual Equipment (please only check what you will need)
standard overhead projector (for use with transparencies)
one slide projector
two slide projectors
TV/VCR combo
CD Player
Cassette Player

DO NOT PLAN TO USE POWERPOINT FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. MESA CANNOT PROVIDE THE NECESSARY EQUIPMENT FOR POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS!

Scholars in the disciplines of Art History and Architecture may request the use of an LCD projector if they are presenting digitial images or making a multi-media presentation. Requests for LCD projectors should be sent to mlowder@u.arizona.edu and should provide in detail the reasons why an LCD projector is required.

If you are part of a pre-organized panel, please provide the following information:

Title of paper (please keep short; simplify transliterations)

Country of Residence Country of Citizenship

Abstract

In the space below, in a maximum of 400 words, please provide an abstract of the paper you propose to present at the MESA 2008 annual meeting. Please single space your abstract. Your abstract MAY NOT contain any reference to your name or the name of anyone on your panel. If it does, it will be automatically disqualified. If your abstract contains special characters or diacritical marks, these may not transfer in html. If that is the case, please prepare your abstract in Microsoft Word and submit it as an email attachment according to these instructions. If you are doing this, please write in the space below "Submitting abstract separately."