MESAʼs 51st Annual Meeting

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1 preliminary program ver Jake McGire MESAʼs 51st Annal Meeting Washington DC November We retrn to DC for MESA s 51st annal meeting at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel where we have met every three years since The hotel is located in a lovely residential area near the National Zoo, bt a nearby stop on the metro red line makes all parts of DC easily accessible. The program of 230+ sessions (see pages 12-51) spread over for days will offer a smorgasbord to whet the appetite of any Middle East stdies aficionado. MESA s affiliate grops meet mostly on Satrday, November 18 (see pages 10-11) and the first program session begins that day at 5:30pm. Panels rn all day Snday and Monday and end at 3pm on Tesday. The book bazaar will be open Snday and Monday from 9am to 6pm and on Tesday from 8am to 12pm (see pages 8-9). MESAʼs ever-poplar FilmFest (see the teaser on pages 6-7) begins screenings on Satrday morning and rns throgh Tesday ntil arond 2pm. The MESA Presidential Address & Awards will be held Snday evening from 6pm to 7:30pm, and the MESA Members Meeting on Monday evening from 6pm to 8:00pm. As yo will see, it s bsiness as sal, except of corse for a new administration that is determined to ban nationals of six Mslim majority contries from traveling to the US, and MESA having joined a lawsit against the ban that is making its way to the US Spreme Cort in October. Those traveling to the MESA meeting from abroad, shold have a look at the international travel tips on page 2 and keep themselves abreast of any developments that cold impact travel. Destination DC Hotel Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel 2660 Woodley Road NW Washington DC fax Registration To preregister for the MESA 2017 annal meeting, log into yor mymesa accont, click Payments and follow the prompts. Or, complete the registration form fond at MESApreregistration.pdf and retrn it along with payment to the MESA Secretariat. Pre-registration is recommended as onsite registration rates are higher. The preregistration deadline is October 24, Category Preregistration Onsite fll/associate $150 $200 stdent member $90 $125 stdent non-member $120 $150 Other non-members $200 $250 Ctoff Date October 20 Grop Rate $207 single/doble $217 triple/qad (pls room tax of 14.8%) Book on-line: MESA has not partnered with any other hosing grops to make reservations on yor behalf. Book throgh the above link or by calling to avoid scams that cold compromise yor data and reslt in a dishonored reservation.

2 Airports/Grond Transportation Three airports serve the DC area: Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) * * Located 9 miles from hotel. * Estimated taxi fare: $21 * Estimated sbway fare: $3.35 The hotel is located next to the Woodley Park Metro stop on the Red Line. Reagan National is located on the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport stop on the Yellow Line. (transfer station between Yellow and Red lines is at the Gallery Place/Chinatown stop.) Dlles International Airport (IAD) * * Located 25 miles from hotel. * Estimated taxi fare: $70 * Metrobs 5A to Rosslyn Metro station; Ble line to Metro Center station; transfer to Red line: $9.95 Baltimore/Washington International Thrgood Marshall Airport (BWI) * * Located 33 miles from hotel. * Estimated taxi fare: $ * Metrobs B30 to Greenbelt Metro station; Green line to U Street Metro station; U St & 13th St NW bs to NW Calvert St & NW Connectict Ave; walk.04 mile to hotel: $13.10 Grond Transportation MESA has partnered with SperShttle to offer attendees a 10% discont on grond transportation. The rondtrip cost from Reagan National is $29.20; from Dlles, $54.20; and from Baltimore- Washington, $ Most who se SperShttle will take a shared van from the airport to the hotel althogh more expensive exclsive vans and ExecCars are available. Book SperShttle online sing the grop code: FPFU4. See SperShttle s flier on the back page of this docment for frther information. International Travelers Implementation of a limited travel ban Nationals of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sdan and Yemen are banned from travel to the US nless they have a bona fide relationship with a US person or entity. One sch relationship is a person invited to serve as a lectrer before an American adience, which applies to many MESA members. Even with a valid visa, it is important for international travelers to stay abreast of developments. We recommend reading Know Yor Rights: What To Do When Encontering Law Enforcement at Airports and Other Ports of Entry into the U.S. These helpfl tips from the ACLU will serve as a gide to anyone ndergoing stringent evalation at the airport. Visa Waiver Program Changes Changes to the Visa Waiver Program were implemented in November Changes inclde new passport reqirements (e-passports), the Electronic System of Travel Athorization (ESTA) which all VWP applicants mst se, and restrictions on people who have traveled to Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sdan, and Yemen since March 1, If yo have traveled to one of those contries yo cannot travel to the US nder the VWP. Yo will need a visa. html e-passports As of April 1, 2016, e-passports are reqired for those traveling nder the VWP. These passports have a machine-readable zone on the biographic page, and a digital chip containing biometric information abot the passport owner. Electronic System for Travel Athorization The Department of Homeland Secrity has established the Electronic System for Travel Athorization (ESTA), an atomated system to determine eligibility to travel nder the VWP. All persons traveling nder the VWP mst apply for an ESTA. Approved ESTA applications are good for a period of two years. gov/travel/international-visitors/esta Electronic Device Restrictions The Transportation Secrity Administration ban on main cabin carry on of larger electronic devices (laptops, Kindles, tablets, cameras, etc.) has been lifted at all airports except the King Khalid Airport in Sadi Arabia. If traveling to the US from that airport, these devices mst be transported in checked baggage. news/2017/03/21/fact-sheet-aviation-secrity-enhancements-selectlast-point-departre-airports Destination DC As always, we sggest getting everything in order for travel to the US in advance of prchasing airline tickets. We encorage yo to read the information on these new programs by following the above links. Share yor stories of border crossing trobles with MESAʼs Exective Director, Amy Newhall, at amy@mesana.org. Page 2 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program

3 Instrctions for Paper Presenters Share yor paper with yor co-panelists by October 15, 2017 Please pload a copy of yor paper to the mymesa system or send a copy via to yor co-panelists, especially the chair/ discssant. No one else will be able to view yor paper except for yor co-panelists. Papers need not be the final copy; drafts are fine. There is no sggested paper length. Yor topic and yor depth of coverage shold determine its length. Plan to present a trncated version of yor paper at yor panel. 1. Log into mymesa ( mymesa/login.php). 2. Click the Annal Meeting btton. 3. Click the Paper Abstract btton (shows p once yo click the annal meeting btton). 4. Click the Sbmit/Update fll paper btton. 5. Under Upload yor attachment click the browse btton. 6. Locate the file on yor compter by navigating to the directory where the file is located. 7. Once the name of yor file appears in the box next to the browse btton, click the Save and back to abstract btton. 8. Yor file has now been ploaded. 9. Log-ot. Want to pload a newer copy later? Repeat above. Planning for yor presentation Former MESA board member, James Gelvin (UCLA), kindly shared with MESA some tips on preparing and delivering conference papers that he created for his gradate stdents. We think they are great tips for those new to paper presentations and for anyone who strggles with the medim. Gelvin begins by reminding folks that, "a conference presentation is a distinct category of commnication." Have a look at his tips at: Panel Chairs Invited Volnteers are invited to chair non-preorganized panels at the MESA 2017 annal meeting. For a list of available panels, please visit MESA s website at mesana.org, click on the DC logo, and then on volnteer panel chairs. yor choices to Mark Lowder at mark@mesana.org. Before yo volnteer, please note that MESA membership and annal meeting pre-registration are reqired of all meeting participants. Child Care MESA can help parents find a local provider and will reimbrse half of the cost of child care services p to a maximm of $200 for the conference. Upon reqest, the Secretariat will be happy to post contact information of parents who want to share sitting services dring the meeting. For frther information, please contact Rose Veneklasen at rose@ mesana.org or ext Roommates If yo are interested in sharing a room at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel dring the MESA annal meeting, please visit MESA s website at roommates.html. MESA maintains a roommates wanted page on its website where those wanting to share rooms can find each other. No Show Policy We nderstand that things come p at the last minte that prevent a participant from attending the meeting. Please notify MESA if yo cannot attend the meeting. If yo are schedled to participate in the annal meeting in any capacity and yo don t show p and haven t informed the MESA Secretariat, yo will be considered a noshow and will not be eligible to participate in the next year s meeting. A no-show is someone who is not physically present at his/her panel at the conference and hasn t notified the MESA Secretariat beforehand. Thematic Conversations and Rondtables Thematic Conversations offer an alternative place to pose new qestions for research, explore new trends and approaches to old qestions, meet like-minded scholars, and engage in open academic exchange in an nstrctred space. The conversations have a session leader and discssants who set the agenda for the conversation. They are (n)strctred to provide for maximm participation from those in attendance, and there are no formal presentations. Seating is limited to 30 people. Rondtables promote informed discssion and debate concerning the crrent state of scholarship in particlar fields, work crrently in progress or the particlar problems involved in the employment of new approaches, new models, etc. The rondtable format lends itself to open discssion in an atmosphere where participants provide their points of view and engage the adience in active discssion. Participants do not prepare papers and do not lectre to the adience. Seating is restricted to maximm. Destination DC MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 3

4 MESA Members Meeting Date: Monday, November 20 Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm Location: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel Marriott Salon 1 The members meeting is an annal meeting of the membership open to all members. Voting is restricted to fll and stdent MESA members. The meeting mainly consists of reports (see sample agenda below). Where members play an important role is in voting for the Nominating Committee and on any resoltions that are being presented. A member in good standing can add names to the list of people who will be invited to rn for the Nominating Committee, to agment those proposed by MESA s Board. Destination DC Qorm A minimm of 35 voting-eligible members mst be in attendance for votes to be taken. Failing that, the meeting can be held bt votes cannot be taken. Resoltions When important isses are before the membership, resoltions are sometimes presented at the members meeting. Resoltions can originate from MESA s Board or from the membership. For resoltions to be acted pon at the 2017 Members Meeting, they mst be in the hands of the MESA Secretariat by November 3, Instrctions for sbmitting resoltions can be fond in MESA s Bylaws which are posted on MESA s website at mesana.org. Destination DC Sample Agenda I. Call to Order II. Report of the Exective Director III. In Memoriam and Moment of Silence IV Election of Officers Reslts V. Nominating Committee Vote and Call for Names VI. IJMES Report VII. RoMES Report VIII. Committee on Academic Freedom Report IX. Unfinished Bsiness (if tabled from last meeting) X. New Bsiness XI. Adjornment Page 4 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program

5 MESA attendees are invited to a special event at the Smithsonian National Postal Msem Monday, November 20, :00 AM to Noon For more than a centry and a half, the world relied on postal services and postage stamps for the exchange of ideas between distant people. More than jst enabling global conversations, however, postage stamps cold be and often were an integral part of the discssion. The governments that created them careflly encoded philosophical, cltral, historical, and social messages they wished to project at home and abroad. Join the Smithsonian National Postal Msem s Chief Crator of Philately for an orientation to opportnities for semiotic and iconographic research in the msem s collections of the stamps and postal history of the Middle East. After the program, coffee and doghnts will be served and an optional docent-led tor of the msem will be offered. The Smithsonian National Postal Msem is located at 2 Massachsetts Avene, N.E., next door to Union Station. It is easily accessible to conference attendees arriving in Washington on Amtrak and from the conference hotel (take the Metro Red Line from Woodley Park Zoo Station toward Glenmont, 6 stops to Union Station). Admission to the msem and attendance at this event are free, bt preregistration is encoraged. If yo d like to join s, please send an with yor name and the nmber of attendees to Dr. Ssan Smith at SmithS@si.ed. The first stamps of Afghanistan (then known as the Kingdom of Kabl) were issed by the government of Amir Sher Ali Khan between 1871 and They were cancelled by having a chnk torn ot of them to prevent rese. The first postage stamps of Israel, issed May 16, 1948, are inscribed simply Hebrew Post becase they were clandestinely printed before the new nation had been proclaimed or named. These are essays (trial designs) prepared in 1942 for stamps that were never issed. The stamps were intended to honor the millennim of Cairo s first mosqe, Al-Azhar Mosqe. Formerly in the collection of Egypt s King Farok, the essays were seized and sold dring the 1952 revoltion that deposed him. These 1852 postage stamps from the Sindh district were embossed in red wax with the seal of the East India Company. The stamp is rare today becase the fragile wax cased many to fall apart. Issed by the Kingdom of Hijaz shortly after the sccessfl 1916 Arab revolt against the Trks, the first stamps of Sadi Arabia were designed by T.E. Lawrence. MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 5

6 2017 FILMFEST PREVIEW a glimpse at what s in store. It is monsoon season in Tcson and its really raining. This is ideal for watching films and the FilmFest has an enormos nmber to preview. While many sbmissions focs on the region s many conflicts, we have plenty of contribtions on everyday isses. Here are few films yo can expect on the program. Haram Using old 16mm filmstock, this timely essay presents the contemporary sitation at the Haram Al Sharif in the Old City of Jersalem. The film reflects on the growing Temple Mont Faithfl movement whose goal is to bild the Jewish Third Temple on this holy landscape and in trn to assert Jewish sovereignty over this holy Mslim site. Monir Distrbing the Peace This film follows former enemy combatants - Israeli soldiers from elite nits and Palestinian fighters, many of whom served years in prison - who have joined together to challenge the stats qo and say "enogh." The film reveals their transformational jorneys from soldiers committed to armed battle to nonviolent peace activists, leading to the creation of Combatants for Peace. Inspired by patterns she fond in mosqes, the Iranian artist Monir Shahrody Farmanfarmaian pioneered contemporary forms of geometric mirror works. Her innovative pieces created an artistic langage informed by traditional Iranian craft and architectre. This film takes an intimate look at the artist s life and her practice, and explores how she has become one of the most innovative and inflential artists working in the Middle East today. Dalya's Other Contry Jlia Meltzer made two wonderfl films in Syria. Now she trns her camera to Syrians living in the United States. Dalya Zeno and her mother leave Aleppo to join their brothers/sons in Los Angeles. The film follows Dalya from age 12 throgh high school gradation. Over the years she balances many identities: Syrian, American and, most challenging, Mslim. Page 6 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program

7 Last Men in Aleppo A Revoltion in For Seasons The 2017 Oscar for Docmentary Short introdced the world to The White Helmets. Last Men in Aleppo presents the lives of the remaining citizens of Aleppo who are getting ready for a siege. This film lets viewers experience the daily life, death, and strggle in the streets throgh the eyes of the White Helmets. Reel Bad Arabs In the wake of its revoltion, Tnisia grappled with creating a democratic government. Beginning in 2011, this seminal film tells the stories of two women with opposing political views fighting for their visions of a democratic ftre. Jornalist Emna Ben Jemaa envisions a contry governed by free speech and withot corrption. Jawhara Ettis of the Islamist party Ennahda works towards a Tnisia gided by Islamic principles. On a pblic level, both women mst navigate how females are treated in their society, while in their own homes they mst make difficlt choices to balance their pblic political roles with marriage and motherhood. In Light of the Revoltion Jack Shaheen, noted critic of negative stereotypes of Arabs in American poplar cltre, died in early Jly. In recognition of Jack s life s work, we are rescreening Reel Bad Arabs a decade after its first presentation. The film explores a long line of degrading images of Arabs--from Bedoin bandits and sbmissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gn-wielding "terrorists". Along the way the film offers insights into the origin of these images, their development at key points in US history, and why they still matter today. In the wake of Egypt s Arab Spring, female artists were emboldened and their art became radical. This film introdces eight women - msicians, visal artists, a photographer, a filmmaker - and their art. The women s impressions and reflections were processed into artistic expression. Their works are more than jst a matter of beaty. They are an active, critical voice in the pblic, where the military and the Mslim Brotherhood strggled to set the agenda. MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 7

8 Book Bazaar Argably the largest display of Middle East stdies titles anywhere, MESA s annal book bazaar will inclde old and new friends niversity presses, small pblishing hoses, independent book sellers, and even artisans sharing their talents. All will gather in DC for a three-day festival of books. The book bazaar will be open 9-6 Snday and Monday (Nov. 19 and 20) and 8-12 on Tesday (Nov. 21). The latest book bazaar information can be fond on MESA s website at: Yo don t have to rent space to exhibit at the MESA meeting. For $50 per title, pblications can be placed on view in MESA s Cooperative Book Display. This is an ideal arrangement for individals, independent athors, and small presses with few Middle East stdies titles. If yo wold like additional information abot exhibiting at MESA 2017, please visit MESA s website or contact Rose Veneklasen at rose@mesana. org or ext Floor Plan AALIM the Arab American Langage Institte in Morocco Aga Khan University - Institte for the Stdy of Mslim Civilisations Al Akhawayn University Al Baher Arabic Langage Training Center Al Manhal... 3 American Mslims for Palestine American Research Center in Egypt The American University in Cairo Press American University of Beirt AMIDEAST Arab Academy The Arab Glf States Institte in Washington... 7 Arab & Persian at Maryland Arab Institte for Research & Pblishing... 4 AramcoWorld Association Book Exhibit Bloomsbry Digital Resorces Brill Cambridge University Press Center for Contemporary Arab Stdies... 1 Page 8 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Exhibitors

9 Center for International and Regional Stdies-Georgetown University in Qatar CET Academic Programs Colmbia University Press Concil of American Overseas Research Centers Critical Langage Scholarship Program Dke University Press East View Information Services Edinbrgh University Press Fondation for Iranian Stdies/Women s Learning Partnership Gale, a Cengage Company George Mason University Georgetown University Press Gingko Library Gorgias Press Hrst Pblishers I.B. Taris Pblishers Ibex Pblishers, Inc IES Abroad Indiana University Press Ingram Academic Services Institte for Palestine Stdies Institte of International Edcation (IIE) - Flbright Scholar Program Interlink Pblishing International Hose Cairo-ILI International Institte of Islamic Thoght IPG Academic & Professional Pblishing... 2 Iran Namag ISD, Distribtor of Scholarly Books Israel Institte Jordan Langage Academy Jst World Books Lebanese American University Lexington Books Library of Arabic Literatre/NYU Press Lynne Rienner Pblishers Mashriq & Mahjar: Jornal of Middle East Migration Stdies Mazda Pblishers Middle East Institte Noor Majan Training Institte Oxford University Press Palgrave Macmillan Pathfinder Press Pengin Random Hose Persian Books & Jornals Peter Lang Pblishing Princeton University Press Qalam wa Lawh Arabic Langage Center in Rabat Morocco Rotledge, Taylor & Francis Grop Rowman & Littlefield Springer Natre Stanford University Press Sltan Qaboos Cltral Center Syracse University Press Université Internationale de Rabat, Morocco University of California Press University of Chicago Press University of Texas Press Westview Press World Friend Shop, Sana'a Yemen...V4 Yale University Press MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 9

10 waata American Association of Teachers of Arabic Satrday, 11/18 Exective Board Meeting, 9am- 12pm, Park Tower Site 8210 (L) Panel: Challenges and Prospects for Teaching Arabic as a Second Langage, 1-3pm, Virginia A (L) Bsiness Meeting, 3:30-5pm, Virginia A (L) waims American Institte for Maghrib Stdies Satrday, 11/18 Board Meeting, 9am-1pm, Delaware A (L) Bsiness Meeting, 3-4:30, Virginia C (L) waiirs American Institte of Iranian Stdies Satrday, 11/18 Board Meeting, 3-5pm, Taylor (M) waiys American Institte for Yemeni Stdies Satrday, 11/18 Board Meeting, 4-5:30pm, Cleveland 1 (M) Snday, 11/19 General Meeting, 4-5pm, Park Tower Site 8216 (L) warce American Research Center in Egypt Monday, 11/20 Fellowship Almni Breakfast, 7-8am, Virginia C (L) wauc/bcars American University in Cairo and Boston Consortim for Arab Region Stdies Satrday, 11/18 Reception, 8:30-10:30pm, Virginia B (L) warabic Collections Online Monday, 11/20 Advisory Board Meeting, 11am- 1pm, Jackson (M) warabic Overseas Flagship Monday, 11/20 Bsiness Meeting, 12-2pm, Park Tower Site 8216 (L) Page 10 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Meetings in Conjnction wagaps Association for Glf and Arabian Peninsla Stdies Satrday, 11/18 Board Meeting, 11am-2pm, Johnson (M) General Bsiness Meeting, 3-5pm, Harding (M) Happy Hor Reception, 5:30-7:30pm, Petits Plats Restarant (2653 Connectict Ave) wais Association for Iranian Stdies Satrday, 11/18 Concil Meeting, 2-5pm, Park Tower Site 8210 (L) General Meeting, 6-7pm, Park Tower Site 8216 (L) wais Association for Israel Stdies Satrday, 11/18 Reception, 8:30-10pm, Wilson C (M) wamea Association for Middle East Anthropology Satrday, 11/18 Board Meeting, 3-4pm, Park Tower Site 8219 (L) Bsiness Meeting, 4-5pm, Park Tower Site 8219 (L) wamews Association for Middle East Women s Stdies Satrday, 11/18 Board Meeting, 1-2:30pm, Park Tower Site 8223 (L) Snday, 11/19 Members Meeting, 7:30-8:30pm, McKinley (M) Reception, 8:30-11pm, Coolidge (M) wasps Association for the Stdy of Persianate Societies Satrday, 11/18 Board Meeting, 4-6pm, Park Tower Site 8218 (L) wamecys Association of Middle East Children s and Yoth Stdies Snday, 11/19 Bsiness Meeting, 8-10am, Park Tower Site 8212 (L) wcasa Center for Arabic Stdy Abroad Satrday, 11/18 Governing Board Meeting, 5-8pm, New Heights Restarant (2317 Calvert St NW) Snday, 11/19 Consortim Lncheon, 12-1:30pm, Lebanese Taverna (2641 Connectict Ave) Monday, 11/20 CASA Almni Reception, 7-9pm, Harding (M) wcirs Center for International and Regional Stdies, Georgetown University in Qatar Snday, 11/19 Reception, 7-9pm, Lebanese Taverna (2641 Connectict Ave) First World War in MENA Scholarly Network Snday, 11/19 Meeting, 4-6pm, Park Tower Site 8222 (L) wfis-fondation for Iranian Stdies Satrday, 11/18 Advisory Grop Meeting, 10am-5pm, Park Tower Site 8224 (L) wflbright and the Concil of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) Satrday, 11/18 Reception, 8:30-10:30pm, Delaware A (L) wharvard University, Center for Middle Eastern Stdies Snday, 11/19 Reception, 8:30-10pm, Virginia A (L) whiaa Historians of Islamic Art Association Satrday, 11/18 Majlis, 10am-12pm, McKinley (M) Bsiness Meeting, 12-1pm, McKinley (M)

11 wijmes International Jornal of Middle East Stdies Satrday, 11/18 Editorial Board Meeting, 3-5pm, Delaware A (L) wjmews-jornal of Middle East Women s Stdies Satrday, 11/18 Pblications Committee Meeting, 12-1pm, Park Tower Site 8223 (L) Snday, 11/19 Editorial Board Meeting, 7-8am, Park Tower Site 8219 (L) wlsa Lebanese Stdies Association Snday, 11/19 Bsiness Meeting, 2-4pm, Johnson (M) wmecpd Middle East Center & Program Directors Monday, 11/20 Annal Meeting, 9-11am, Virginia C (L) wmela Middle East Librarians Association Satrday, 11/18 Vendor Showcase, 8am-2pm, Maryland C (L) wmem Middle East Medievalists Satrday, 11/18 Board Meeting, 11am-1pm, Jackson (M) Bsiness Meeting, 3-5pm, McKinley (M) wmeoc Middle East Otreach Concil Snday, 11/19 Bsiness Meeting, 10:30am-12:30pm, Park Tower Site 8216 (L) Board Meeting, 5:30-7pm, Park Tower Site 8224 (L) Monday, 11/20 Otreach Coordinators' Workshop, 10:30am-12:30pm, Park Tower Site 8222 (L) wmerip Middle East Research and Information Project Monday, 11/20 Bsiness Meeting, 3:30-5:30pm, Delaware B (L) wmesa Middle East Stdies Association Snday, 11/19 Meeting of Officers of MESA's Affiliated Organizations, 7-8am, Park Tower Site 8218 (L) CAF Annal Meeting, 10am-12pm, McKinley (M) LAMES Meeting, 4-5:30pm, Park Tower Site 8212 (L) Monday, 11/20 Middle East Center & Program Directors Meeting, 9-11am, Virginia C (L) wotsa Ottoman and Trksih Stdies Association Satrday, 11/18 Board Meeting, 1-3pm, Cleveland 1 (M) Bsiness Meeting & Reception, 8:30-11pm, Delaware B (L) wparc Palestinian American Research Center Satrday, 11/18 Board Meeting, 12-4pm, Park Tower Site 8212 (L) wromes Review of Middle East Stdies Snday, 11/19 Editorial Board Lncheon, 11am- 1pm, Jackson (M) wsas Society for Armenian Stdies Satrday, 11/18 Exective Concil Meeting, 9:30-11:30am, Park Tower Site 8218 (L) Workshop, 12-3pm, Virginia B (L) Annal Meeting, 3-5, Virginia B (L) wssa Syrian Stdies Association Satrday, 11/18 Exective Board Meeting, 1-2:30pm, Park Tower Site 8218 (L) Bsiness Meeting, 3-4:30pm, Wilson A (M) wtaarii The American Academic Research Institte in Iraq Satrday, 11/18 Board Meeting, 10am-12pm, Wilson C (M) Reception, 8:30-10:30pm, McKinley (M) Snday, 11/19 Exective Committee Meeting, 9-10am, Park Tower Site 8210 (L) wucla, Center for Near Eastern Stdies Satrday, 11/18 60th Anniversary Reception, 8:30-10pm, Coolidge (M) wuniversity of Michigan Satrday, 11/18 Reception, 8:30-10:30pm, Wilson B (M) wwestern Consortim of ME Centers Monday, 11/20 Meeting, 11am-1pm, Park Tower Site 8223 (L) wwocmes-world Concil for Middle East Stdies Snday, 11/19 Advisory Concil Meeting, 10:30am- 12:30pm, Park Tower Site 8222 (L) wyale Concil on Middle East Stdies Snday, 11/19 Reception, 8:30pm-10pm, Virginia B (L) MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 11

12 Program 5:30-7:30PM Satrday November 18 Rondtable 4790 Competing Discorses of Masclinity in the Arab World Organizers: Nicole Fares and Matthew Parnell Chair: Matthew Parnell, American U Cairo Nicole Fares, U Arkansas Kathryn Kalemkerian, McGill U Sneela Mbayi, NYU Jedidiah Anderson, Wofford Col Thematic Conversation 5030 Usrpation: The Untold Stories of the Iraq War 2003-Present Organizer: Afaf Nash Session Leader: Saleem Al-Bahloly, Johns Hopkins U Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS U London Afaf Nash, U Sothern California Nabil Al-Tikriti, U Mary Washington Jeffrey B. Sprr, Independent Scholar Nada M. Shabot, U North Texas 4733 Old Texts, New Methods: Innovative Methodologies for Medieval History Organizer: Aaron Hagler Discssant: Nancy Khalek, Brown U Reyhan Drmaz, Brown U- This is what was related in the tash ith : Mslim historians se(s) of Syriac hagiography Nebil Hsayn, U Miami-Interpreting miracles in Mslim sacred texts Aaron Hagler, Troy U-The theatrics of Islamic historiography: Getting into the heads of the historians Gowaart Van Den Bossche, Ghent U-Narrating sltanship: The writing of sltanic biography as performance of social stats Jo Van Steenbergen, Ghent U-Narrative strategies, state-formation, and worldmaking in late medieval Egyptian chronicles 4766 Precarios Visibility as a Mode of Governance: The Case of Alevis in Trkey Organizers: Nazlı Özkan and Besim Can Zirh Chair: Nazlı Özkan, Northwestern U Discssant: Ayfer Karakaya-Stmp, Col of William and Mary Glay Trkmen-Dervisogl, U Goettingen-Democratization withot seclarization? The predicament of Alevis in Trkey nder the first AKP government ( ) Ceren Lord, U Oxford-Secratization of sectarianism? The Trkish state and the Alevis in the post-2011 era Nazlı Özkan, Northwestern U-Politics of anticipation: Possibilities and impossibilities of reforming Alevis stats in Trkey Besim Can Zirh, Middle East Technical U-In between invisibility and hypervisibility: Alevis in the time of post-cop prge in Trkey 4814 Looking East: Knowledge, Travel, and Friendship Between the Middle East and Asia in the 19th Centry Organizer: Mimi Hanaoka Organized nder the aspices of Social Science Research Concil (SSRC) InterAsia Program Discssant: Jlie Stephens, Rtgers U Arash Khazeni, Pomona Col-Indo-Persian views of Sotheast Asia and the Bddhist Kingdom of Mrak U Mana Kia, Colmbia U-Bridging difference: Kinship, friendship and the creation of social bonds Kevin Schwartz, Library of Congress-A transregional Persianate library: Tazkirah prodction and circlation in the 19th centry Mimi Hanaoka, U Richmond-Japanese travels in Iran 4845 Activism, Contestation and Political Participation in the Middle East and North Africa Organizer: Nadine Sika Chair: Eberhard Kienle, PACTE Nadine Sika, American U Cairo-Yoth civic and political participation in the MENA: Does trst matter? Ellis Goldberg, U Washington- Demonstrations of democracy James H. Snday, American U Cairo- Making space: Taking part in the everyday politics of Cairo s poplar qarters Ahmed Abdrabo, U Denver-Stdent mobilization and political participation in Egypt: Why the Egyptian transition has failed Khalil al-anani, Doha Inst for Gradate Stdies-Resisting the jnta: Forms of political mobilization in Egypt after the cop of Reconsidering Israeli- Lebanese Relations Organizers: Asher Kafman and Oren Barak Chair: Asher Kafman, U Notre Dame Discssant: Larie Zittrain Eisenberg, Carnegie Mellon U Elena Aon, U Catholiqe de Lovain-A bitter enconter: The Shi i commnity nder Israeli occpation in Soth Lebanon Daniel Sobelman, Harvard U-A decade after the 2006 war: What next for Israeli- Lebanese relations? Matthie Cimino, U Oxford-Teaching history of an enmity: Israel in Lebanese schoolbooks, Lebanon in Israeli schoolbooks: A comparative perspective ( ) Asher Kafman, U Notre Dame-Sabra and Shatila: Silencing, denying, and selective remembering Oren Barak, Hebrew U of Jersalem- Israel, Lebanon, and their relations on film Page 12 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program

13 5:30-7:30PM Satrday November From the Bedroom to the Street: Projecting Gender and Sexality in Pblic Places Organizer: Nadine Sinno Chair: Lcia Volk, San Francisco State U Discssant: Amal Amireh, George Mason U Kim Canette Grimaldi, UT Astin-The body nder siege: Corrption and the female body in Betool Khedairi s Ghayeb Jess Newman, Yale U-Talking back: Screening and discssing sexality in Morocco Lcia Volk, San Francisco State U-Reframing Germany s no means no debate: Migrants, sexal transgressions, and gender politics in pblic places Nadine Sinno, Virginia Tech- Fight rape and gay is OK : Gender and sexal politics in Beirt graffiti 4920 Connection, Contagion, and Calamity: Social Uses and Effects of Infrastrctral Networks in the Middle East Organizer: Alex Schweig Discssant: Gokce Gnel, U Arizona Alex Schweig, U Arizona-Cholera in the time of modernization: The spread of the 1893 cholera epidemic along the Ottoman Anatolian Railroad Paline Lewis, UCLA-Entangled: The role of private capital in Ottoman sbmarine telegraphy Mikiya Koyagi, NYU-Speed, danger, and railway accidents in early Pahlavi Iran Esra Bakkalbasiogl, U Washington- Politics of access and denial: Electricity grid solar panels and the Naqab Bedoin in Israel 4925 Violence, Legality, and Law on the Ottoman Periphery Organizers: Will Smiley and Josha White Chair: Molly Greene, Princeton U Josha White, U Virginia-Corsairs or rebels? North Africa, Istanbl, and the legality of maritime violence in the seventeenth-centry Mediterranean Jlia Leikin, Inst of Historical Research- At odds with Eropean conventions: Rssian laws of maritime warfare in the Rssian-Ottoman war Will Smiley, Reed Col-From Geneva and Brssels to the Danbe: Prisoners of war and the law of war in the late Ottoman Empire Aimee M. Genell, UC Berkeley-The law of war in Ottoman legal thoght and practice on the eve of the First World War 4926 Circlating Science and Scaling Innovation: Science and Technology Stdies in the Middle East Organizer: Elizabeth Williams Chair/Discssant: On Barak, Tel Aviv U Daniel Stolz, Northwestern U-Problems of knowledge in the Ottoman pblic debt: The Latin American connection Elizabeth Williams, U Massachsetts Lowell-The technology of fields: The politics of agricltral science in late Ottoman and French mandate Syria Fredrik Meiton, Northwestern U-Organic compond: Zionism and science Lara Goffman, Georgetown U-Qatar biobank: Crafting the ethno-nation throgh the genetic disease landscape 4966 Political Parties, Attitdes, and Elections Chair: Sabina Henneberg, Johns Hopkins U Discssant: Vahid Abedini, Florida International U Jonas Bergan Draege, Eropean U Inst-Electoral polarization in democratic transitions: Srvey evidence from Egypt and Tnisia Alireza Raisi, Seton Hall U-Political participation in Iran s parliamentary elections: Between two competing narratives Sebnem Gmsc, Middlebry Col-Islamists between democracy and athoritarianism: Comparing Trkey, Egypt and Tnisia Ellen Lst, U Gothenbrg and Kristen Kao, U Gothenbrg-Wasta and clientelism: The intersection of social and political linkage in the MENA Amir H. Mahdavi, Harvard U-Oil and electoral behavior in Iran 4969 Msic and Politics min al- Mashriq ila al-maghrib Chair: Carole Woodall, U Colorado Colorado Springs Gilnard Mofarrej, US Naval Academy-Political resistance and nationalism: Women singers in Lebanon defying the drms of war Hicham Chami, Colmbia U-A tale of two protectorates: Cltral hegemony in colonial Morocco and its impact on indigenos msics Christopher Nickell, NYU-Hearing pyrrhic victory in Lebanon s 2015 protests Elizabeth Matsshita, U Illinois Urbana-Champaign-Echoes of the Maghreb: Modernity, empire, and the Fez Congress of Moroccan Msic Garrett Shffield, UT Astin-The Arab diaspora and collaborative hip-hop: Globalized and localized identity formation MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 13

14 5:30-7:30PM Satrday November Anxieties, Resistances, and the Clergy in Egyptian and Iranian Film Chair: Mario M. Riz, Hofstra U Kelly Hock, UT Astin-A nightmare on Valiasr Street: Persian-langage diasporic horror films and the cltral capital of Iranian cinema Babak Tabarraee, UT Astin-Islamic repblic s treatment of confsing signifiers: The crios case of Marmlak Mohannad Ghawanmeh, UCLA-News of the nation: Mohamed Bayomi s newsfilms in the newly independent Egypt, Maziyar Faridi, Northwestern U- Ode a Monde : The emergence of Iranian new wave cinema and the problematic of national identity Heba Arafa, Georgia Tech-Maslaha: A film sanctioning apparats or a covert censorship? 5002 Urban Imaginaries: Governing Throgh Hosing Chair: Samy Ayob, UT Astin Caroline Abadeer, Stanford U-Local governance and the athoritarian Egyptian state: Forced evictions in Cairo s informal settlements Said Ennahid, Al Akhawayn U- Neo- Moorish art and architectre in colonialperiod Casablanca: The case of Mslimspecific workers hosing ( ) Satoshi Kawamoto, Harvard U/JSPS- Hoses of infidels: An architectral analysis of hoses in Istanbl in 1455 Christopher S. Rose, UT Astin-Sex work and protest in World War I Egypt Daniel Williford, U Michigan- Infrastrctres of violence and zones of restraint in colonial rban Morocco 5005 Criminalizing Resistance: Prodcing Palestinial (In)Secrity Chair: Simona Sharoni, SUNY Plattsbrgh Alyssa Bernstein, Harvard Law Schl/ Qeen s U Belfast-The Fatah/Hamas divide among Palestinian prisoners Matthew Kraig Kelly, Independent Scholar-Criminal + nationalist = terrorist: Terrorism in British crimino-national discorse Maya Rosenfeld, Hebrew U-50 years of Israeli occpation and Palestinian resistance: Whither the movement of Palestinian political prisoners? Jlie Norman, Qeen s U Belfast- Fighting for peace? Ex-combatants and non-traditional peace-bilding in protracted conflicts Alaa Tartir, Gradate Inst Geneva- Secritised peace in Palestine/Israel: Criminalizing resistance, entrenching athoritarianism 5022 Competition and Social Practice in Early and Medieval Islamic Poetry Chair: Anita Hsen, Stanford U Samer M. Ali, U Michigan-Why does Shahrazad scceed?: Disrpting the scapegoat cycle with cold hard cachet Avigail Noy, Harvard U-Early ses of the term ittisa and the competing approaches to metaphorical langage in Arabic grammar and poetics Mona Hassan, Dke U-Poetic memories of the prophet s family: Ibn Hajar al- Asqalani s panegyrics for the Cairene Abbasid Sltan- Caliph al-msta in Cory Jorgensen, George Washington U-In defense of poetic reptation: Jarir and al-farazdaq s self-oriented naqa id Th. Emil Homerin, U Rochester-Close enconters of the Sfi kind 5028 Langage and Identity Chair: Mohssen Esseesy, George Washington U Anastasia Khawaja, U Soth Florida-To display Hebrew, or not to display Hebrew?: A stdy of representation of power and solidarity throgh signage in Palestine Lisa J. White, American U Cairo-Speaking of bodies Brian Jackson, U Penn-Trade and sbjective identity between Oman and Zanzibar Monica Katibogl, UC Irvine-Edebiyat-ı Cedide on modern langage: A case against lingistic prification Mohamed ElSawi Hassan, Amherst Col-Re-contextalizing discorse and social action in Egypt after the Arab Spring Kristin Hickman, U Chicago-Africa in Morocco, Morocco in Africa: Making space for foreign voices in the Darijaphone pblic sphere Page 14 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program

15 8:00-10:00AM Snday November 19 TODAY S AFFILIATED MEETINGS 7-8am JMEWS Editorial Board Meeting Park Tower Site 8219 (L) 7-8am Meeting of Officers of MESA's Affiliated Associations Park Tower Site 8218 (L) 8-10am AMECYS Bsiness Meeting Park Tower Site 8212 (L) 9-10am TAARII Exective Committee Meeting Park Tower Site 8210 (L) 10am-12pm MESA's CAF Meeting McKinley (M) 10:30am-12:30pm MEOC Bsiness Meeting Park Tower Site 8216 (L) 10:30am-12:30pm WOCMES Advisory Concil Meeting Park Tower Site 8222 (L) 11am-1pm RoMES Editorial Board Lncheon Jackson (M) 2-4pm Lebanese Stdies Association Bsiness Meeting Johnson (M) 4-5pm AIYS Bsiness Meeting Park Tower Site 8216 (L) 4-5:30pm LAMES Meeting Park Tower Site 8212 (L) 5:30-7pm MEOC Board Meeting Park Tower Site 8224 (L) 7:30-8:30pm AMEWS Bsiness Meeting McKinley (M) 8:30-10pm Harvard University CMES Reception Virginia A (L) 8:30-10pm Yale Concil on Middle East Stdies Virginia B (L) 8:30-11pm AMEWS Reception Coolidge (M) Thematic Conversation 5029 Global Arab America: Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents Organizers: Sad Joseph, UC Davis and Paline Homsi Vinson Session Leader: Paline Homsi Vinson, Diablo Valley Col Madeline Otis Campbell, Worcester State U Akram Khater, North Carolina State U Pal Amar, UC Santa Barbara Loise Cainkar, Marqette U Thematic Conversation 5031 Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Jstice al Commitment Organizers: Michelle Hartman and Rabab Abdlhadi Session Leader: Rabab Abdlhadi, San Francisco State U Michelle Hartman, McGill U Emilio Dabed, Independent Scholar 4751 Spaces of Yoth Political Engagement Six Years After the 2011 Uprisings Organizers: Christoph Schwarz and Linda Herrera Chair/Discssant: Linda Herrera, U Illinois Urbana-Champaign Ann-Christin Wagner, U Edinbrgh- Syrian refgee yoth and the [anti] politics of srvival Mina Ibrahim, Jsts-Liebig U, Giessen- Coptic yoth: From street politics to chrch politics Dina El-Sharnoby, BGSMCS, FU Berlin- Egyptian yoth between despair and hope: The case of the Bread and Freedom Party Mayada Madboly, Inst des sciences Sociales d Politiqe (ISP)-Mobilizing the past: Nbian yoth political engagement in post-2011 Egypt Christoph Schwarz, U Marbrg Germany-Yong activists in Morocco: Trajectories of engagement after The Allre of the Mndane: What to do with the Micro and the Daily in Middle East History? Organizer: Lcia Carminati Chair: Jlia Clancy-Smith, U Arizona Discssant: Farzin Vejdani, Ryerson U Ali Atabey, U Arizona-Living in an Afro-Erasian port-town: Daily life and sociocltral interactions in the seventeenth-centry Ottoman Galata Secil Ulisik, U Arizona-A neglected history: Chorbadzhis, sovereignty and the Ottoman provinces, 1790s- 1850s Lcia Carminati, U Arizona-The power of the mndane: Fatima s story and the history of an Egyptian port-city, 1880s-1890s Tania Bhattacharyya, Colmbia U-Between nation and empire: Iranian bakers, pblishers and nomads in early twentieth centry Bombay 4794 Form and Langage in Arabic Poetics Organizers: Jeffrey Sacks and Hda J. Fakhreddine Chair/Discssant: Mohammad Salama, San Francisco State U Jeffrey Sacks, UC Riverside-Signaling with two hands: Intensifications of langage in Khalid al-ma ali Esraa al-shammari, U Penn-Paratext to the poetic practice of Salim Barakat Hda J. Fakhreddine, U Penn- Mhammad al-maght s verse-less poem Szanne P. Stetkevych, Georgetown U-Al-Ittijah al-m`akis: Al-Ma`arri s Lzmiyyat and the poetics of constriction 4820 The Political in Political Islam: Conflict, Consenss, or Something Else? Organizer: Necmettin Dogan Chair/Discssant: Mcahit Bilici, John Jay Col CUNY Edip Asaf Bekarogl, Istanbl U-Contextfree and context-dependent elements of the political Islam: An analysis of Said Halim Pasha, Mawddi, Shariati, and Ozel MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 15

16 8:00-10:00AM Snday November 19 Mhammed Hseyin Mercan, Erciyes U-Islamism and the world order: The mltipolar world order imagination and political perception of the Milli Gors Movement Necmettin Dogan, Istanbl Commerce U-Political implications of civilization discorse in Islamism: Anti-modernism or anti-westernism? Ahmet Korogl, Istanbl U-Islamist thinkers self-accsations on their own political attitdes: The case of Ab l Ala Mawddi and Sayyid Qtb Ali Kaya, Erciyes U-Liberal political discorse, Islamism and the political 4858 Tales of Espionage, Diplomacy, and War Organizer: Jeffrey G. Karam Chair/Discssant: Salim Yaqb, UC Santa Barbara Roberto Mazza, U Limerick-A tale of secrecy and bsiness: The attempted sale of the Western Wall dring WW1 Jeffrey G. Karam, Boston U-Revisiting American intelligence and diplomacy dring the Lebanon crisis of 1958 Salim Yaqb, UC Santa Barbara-Yes we can t: Arab Americans and the Arab-Israeli dispte in the 1970s James Casey, Princeton U-Mandate agent, colonial sbject, and Jewish citizen? The many profiles of Jamil Sasson, a francophone Syrian Arab Jew in the French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon 4891 Law and Ideology in the Trkish Repblic Organizers: James Ryan and Joakim Parslow Discssant: Ceren Belge, Concordia U Alex Balistreri, Princeton U-Poplation, movement, and the state in the Trkish- Soviet borderlands, Senem Aslan, Bates Col-A mercifl state? Political amnesties in early repblican Trkey James Ryan, U Penn-Ideology on trial: Comparing trials of the pan-tranists and leftists at the dawn of Cold War Trkey Joakim Parslow, U Oslo-Do tortrers dream of electric sheep? Cybernetics, law, and technocratic fantasies in Cold War Trkey Page 16 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program 4927 Occpying Space: Land, Religion, Power in Colonial North Africa Organizer: Alexandra Blackman Chair: Chantal Berman, Princeton U Discssant: James McDogall, Trinity Col Oxford Brock Ctler, Radford U-Border performativity and the limits of sovereignty in 19th centry Algeria Robert P. Parks, Centre d Étdes Maghrébines en Algérie-Conflicting claims: Property rights in Algeria Michelle Weitzel, New Schl for Social Research-French space? Silencing the call to prayer in colonial Algeria Alexandra Blackman, Stanford U-Property and power: The transformation of the waqf system in Tnisia 4952 Arabic-Script Typography: History, Technology, & Aesthetics Organizers: Roberta L. Dogherty and Andrea L. Stanton Chair: Sharon C. Smith, MIT Discssant: Dagmar A. Riedel, CSIC/ Colmbia U Roberta L. Dogherty, Yale U Library- Salisbry & Oriental typography in the JAOS: Visalizing scholarly legitimacy throgh script Andrea L. Stanton, U Denver-Selling the typewriter in the Arab world Jlia de Mowbray, Gale-Arabic typography and digitisation Wayne Osborn, Georgetown U-Unicode and Arabic script: Historical legacies and ftre challenges 4957 The Great Fear of 1895: Armenian Reform, Rmor and Violence Across the Ottoman Empire Organizers: Owen Miller and Umit Krt Society for Armenian Stdies (SAS) Discssant: Edhem Eldem, Boğaziçi U Owen Miller, Emerson Col-George Perkins Knapp of Bitlis and massacres of 1895 Emre Can Dagliogl, Clark U-Reform and violence in the Hamidian era: 1895 anti- Armenian riots in Trabzon Umit Krt, Harvard U-Theaters of violence in the Ottoman periphery: Tracing the local roots of Hamidian massacres in Aintab Ugr Z. Pece, Bard Col-The year of rmor: Crete in the shadow of the Armenian massacres of Law, Legitimacy, and Laziness in Late Ottoman Imperial Cltre Chair: Roger A. Deal, U of Soth Carolina Aiken Arlen Wiesenthal, U Chicago-Or heroic Emperors: Heroism, world order, and the social history of monarchy in the late Ottoman Empire, Avner Wishnitzer, Tel Aviv U-Yawn: Idleness and boredom in the late Ottoman Empire Benjamin Smin, UC San Diego-Jstice and corrption in late Ottoman Aleppo: The tenre of Cemil Pasha Melis Hafez, Virginia Commonwealth U-Criminalization of laziness: Pnishment, reward, and negotiation in the Ottoman breas Nilay Ozl, Boğaziçi U-Strategies of display dring the late Ottoman era: The Imperial Msem and the Imperial Treasry 4980 Hmanitarianism and the Syrian Crisis Chair: Beverly Tsacoyianis, U Memphis Hélène Rey, Switzerland-Moved by faith: Christian organizations and hmanitarian aid in Syria Michelle Dromgold-Sermen, UNC Chapel Hill-Responding to Syrian refgees: A trning point for civil society in Trkey? Dolnay Ugr, Yale U-Politics of transnational hmanitarianism: International NGOs assisting Syrian refgees in Trkey Irene Gibson, U Oxford-Benevolent Kwait: Examining Kwait s foreign aid mechanisms throgh the case stdy of its Syrian crisis response

17 8:00-10:00AM Snday November Workers Across Borders: Labor, Migration, and Class Association for Glf and Arabian Peninsla Stdies (AGAPS) Chair: Salma Waheedi, Harvard Law Schl Zahra Babar, Georgetown U Qatar-The GCC-Soth Asia labor recritment system: Comparing Nepal and Pakistan Arnon Degani, UCLA-Comrades, not enemies? The Histadrt and its Palestinian- Arab members, Martin Hvidt, U Sothern Denmark- Highly-skilled migrants in the Arab Glf contries: Exploring the nexs between economic growth and immigration of highlyskilled migrants Jaafar Allol, U Leven/U Amsterdam- Dbai as heterotopia: Liminal notes on the stats migration of Eropean Maghrebi- Mslim minority pblics to a cosmopolitan city William Christo, U Florida-The impact of foreign labor on class formation in the GCC: Examining Bahrain, the UAE and Sadi Arabia 4985 Visal Engagement: Between the Self and the Nation Chair: Melanie Janet Sindelar, U Vienna Amir Khadem, U Toronto-Reprodcing the real: Reviving the discorse of sacred defense in Standing in the Dst Paniz Msawi Natanzi, SOAS U London-Problematizing the gendering of Afghan visal knowledge prodction & artprodcing spaces in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan in times of on-going insecrities & the reconstrction of the nation-state in Afghanistan Melanie Janet Sindelar, U Vienna- Contemporary art prodction and the ambivalence of nation-bilding in the United Arab Emirates Marjan Moosavi, U Toronto-Religiosity and emotionality in Iranian theatre: (Re) presentations and interventions 4992 Managing and Manfactring Disaster Chair: John M. VanderLippe, SUNY Delhi Baris Tasyakan, UC San Diego-Disasters and re-formation of an imperial city: Ottoman Brsa in the mid-nineteenth centry Ron J. Smith, Bcknell U-Healthcare nder siege: The geopolitics of healthcare provision in the Gaza Strip Thomas Kehn, Simon Fraser U-Managing natre s hazards, frthering state control: Natre and imperial governance in Ottoman Yemen re-visited, Valerie Giesen, Colmbia U-Technically long-term: The political economy of hmanitarian technology in Jordan Ebr Kayaalp, Istanbl Sehir U-Citizens at risk: Uncertainty, preparedness and the Istanbl earthqake 5004 Making the Modern: The Politics of Heritage Chair: Kristi N. Barnwell, U Illinois Springfield Elizabeth Rah, U Michigan-An artist crating Islamic heritage: Ali Jabri and the Jordan Msem of Poplar Traditions Timr Hammond, Syracse U-Making Islam modern: Heritage and worship in 1950s Trkey Shayna Silverstein, Northwestern U-Tracing Syrian folk dance: A critical assessment of Ibn Dhrayl s anthology of raqs al-semah and dabke Chantal El Hayek, MIT-Kwait National Msem: Architectral historiography and the changing ethos of modernism 5009 Politics, Cltre, and Everyday Life in Safavid Poetry and Prose Chair: A. Nazir Atassi, Loisiana Tech U Poye Khoshkhoosani, U Arizona- Safavid Qaṣīdah: A poetic genre for legitimizing power Ferenc P. Csirkes, Sabanci U-Confessional politics and vernaclar Trkish in Safavid Iran: A Qizilbash catechism Pal E. Losensky, Indiana U-A master poet, in spite of being a Trk : Shani Takall and literary cltre nder Shah Abbas Yi Kanda, U Tokyo-Poems, crafts, poets and craftsmen: Material cltre of Iran and Transoxiana dring the Timrid-Safavid period Shahla Farghadani, U Michigan-From the garden to the bathhose: Poetry, eros, and daily life in Isfahan 5011 Women, Islam, and Family Law Chair: Kent Davis-Packard, Johns Hopkins U SAIS Yüksel Sezgin, Syracse U- Non- Mslim Mjtahids : Viability of jdicial interventions in Mslim family laws by civil corts in non-mslim regimes Hakan Karpzc, Princeton U-Reforming Islamic family law and making moral sbjects in the late Ottoman Empire Jean-Michel Landry, McGill U- Yo can t take my children in the name of religion : Snni and Shi i attempts to reform women cstody rights in Lebanon Elizabeth Brownson, UW Parkside- Women s strategies for negotiating divorce in mandate Palestine 5025 Sectarianism: States, Parties, and Representations Chair: Amy Mills, U Soth Carolina Adham Saoli, U St Andrews- Sectarianism and political order in Iraq and Lebanon Anna Hager-From polytheists to partners in the nation Islamist attitdes towards Coptic Egyptians in post-revoltionary Egypt Satgin Hamrah, Tfts U-Complexities of the Iran-Iraq war and its long-term implications Patrick Harned, UT Astin-Assyrians in Iraq: Competing visions of identity Basiles Zeno, U Massachsetts Amherst-The constrction of sectarian politics in Syria Hyn Jeong Ha, U Notre Dame- Christians are legitimate targets : Understanding sectarian violence in Egypt, MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 17

18 10:30AM-12:30PM Snday November 19 Professional Development Workshop 5051 Proposal Writing and Research Design: How to Fnd Yor Ideas Organized by Sad Joseph Co- Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cltres Otreach Project Arab American Stdies Association Association for Middle East Women s Stdies Association for Middle East Anthropology Chair: Sad Joseph, UC Davis Those embarking on academic careers mst master the art of writing proposals for research fnding. Whether yo are condcting research for a dissertation or book or seeking spport for a special project-locating and secring fnding is critical. This workshop will provide expert gidelines on how to write compelling proposals from the initial phrasing of the research qestion, step by step, to the research otcomes, significance, dissemination, and pblic otreach. It will also address sch isses as identifying and working with fnding agencies, effectively commnicating research methodology and goals, preparing bdgets, and planning for the dissemination of reslts. The workshop will be led by Sad Joseph, Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Stdies, University of California at Davis. She has taght proposal writing and lead workshops for stdents, faclty, administrators, and NGO practitioners for over 30 years. Information abot proposal writing may be fond on Dr. Joseph's website at sjoseph.cdavis.ed/arab-families-working-grop-1/images/files/componentsofahmanitiessocialsciencesresearchproposal.pdf. Please sign p for the workshop in advance by sending an message to Mark Lowder at mark@ mesana.org. Before the workshop, please browse Professor Joseph s website and read the docment, Components of a social science and hmanities research proposal Broadening the Narrative: Ibadi Islam in Focs Organizers: Valerie J. Hoffman and Rodrigo Adem Chair: Rodrigo Adem, UNC Chapel Hill Discssant: Pal E. Walker, U Chicago Abdlrahman Al-Salimi, Ministry of Endowment & Religios Affairs, Oman- On the significance of the Aqwal Qatada for early Islamic legal thoght Rodrigo Adem, UNC Chapel Hill-A compendim of theological firsts : The significance of early Ibadi Kalam texts for Islamic thoght Cyrille Aillet, U de Lyon (France)- Ibadism and the constrction of ethnicity in medieval North Africa Adam Gaiser, Florida State U-Medieval Ibadi images of mrji ism Valerie J. Hoffman, U Illinois-Ibāḍī discssions on the divine attribtes 4730 Diasporic Devotion: Transnational Religion and Middle East Migrations Organizer: Akram Khater Organized nder the aspices of Moise Khayarallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Stdies Chair: Akram Khater, North Carolina State U Rondtable 4732 AATT Rondtable: Focs on the Learner Organizer: Pelin Basci American Association of Teachers of Trkic Langages (AATT) Chair: Pelin Basci, Portland State U Melike Ycel-Koç, U Washington Erika H. Gilson, Princeton U S. Ebr Ergl, Stanford U Rondtable 4785 Histories of Slavery in Medieval Islamic Societies Organizer: Craig Perry Middle East Medievalists (MEM) Hend Gilli-Elewy, Cal Poly Pomona Elizabeth Urban, West Chester U Matthew S. Gordon, Miami U Craig Perry, U Cincinnati Magdalena Moorthy Kloss, Astrian Academy of Sciences Jacob Norris, U Sssex-Objects of devotion: Palestinian migrants and their prayer beads, c Andrew Arsan, U Cambridge-Reading the Middle East from the margins: A forgotten figre, his faithfl life, and his moving books Akram Khater, North Carolina State U- Like a wolf who fell pon sheep : Maronite priests in America Page 18 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program

19 10:30AM-12:30PM Snday November Hebron in the Modern Period: Social, Political, and Economic Dynamics in Sothern Palestine Organizer: Alex Winder Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) Chair/Discssant: Issam Nassar, Illinois State U Ssynne McElrone, New York NY- Rethinking the paradigm of Ottoman landtenre reforms in Palestine in light of new evidence Alex Winder, Brown U-Family, social, and professional networks in Mont Hebron before and after 1948 Kimberly Katz, Towson U-The law and society: Hebron nder Jordanian rle, Belal Shobaki, Hebron U-Hebron in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Settlement withot peace 4743 Examining Sign Langage Edcation in the Middle East Organizer: Sanaa Riaz Chair: Engin Arik, Istanbl Medipol U Engin Arik, Istanbl Medipol U-History and crrent stats of Trkish sign langage Sara Siyavoshi, U New Mexico- Standardization and langage attitdes in the Iranian deaf commnity Sanaa Riaz, Metropolitan State U Denver-Pakistan sign langage: Conceptalization, crriclm and cltral impact Jstin Power, UT Astin-Foreign inflence on the lexicon of Afghan sign langage Erin Trine, Western Oregon U-Emerging professionalization of Arabic/Jordanian sign langage interpreting 4744 The Soth in the Yemeni Conflict Organizer: Charles P. Schmitz American Institte for Yemeni Stdies (AIYS) Noel Brehony, Menas Associates- Regionalism and nationalism in Soth Yemen Elisabeth Kendall, U Oxford-What does Eastern Yemen want and what is it doing abot it? The voice of al-mahra Thanos Petoris, Independent Scholar-Sothern Yemen after the Sadi intervention: Political and social change Charles P. Schmitz, Towson U-Salafism in the soth 4760 Postcolonial Arab Feminisms: Past Meets Present Organizer: Catherine Batrni Chair: Tarek El-Ariss, Dartmoth Col Yasmin Shafei, American U Beirt- Egyptian feminism and the strggle for women s rights, Catherine Batrni, American U Beirt- To vote or not to vote? Lebanese women and the politics of sffrage Zahra Ali, Rtgers U-Exploring feminism in contemporary Iraq: Legacies of the past and present strggles Tatiana Rabinovich, U Arizona- Fighting for the contry, fighting for orselves : Pro-regime female soldiers and feminism in today s Syria 4772 Emancipatory Transformations in Krdistan: Atonomy, Radical Democracy, and Gender Liberation Organizer: Sardar Saadi Chair: Sardar Saadi, U Toronto Discssant: Fatma Müge Göçek, U Michigan Sardar Saadi, U Toronto-The rise and repression of the pro-krdish mnicipality movement in Trkey Elif Genc, New Schl for Social Research- Gender, state and resistance: The Krdish women s armed strggle for liberation Behnam Amini, York U-Understanding the implications of transcending nationalism: Democratic confederalism and the qestion of separatism Berivan Sarikaya, U Toronto-Resistance, consciosness and social transformation: Krdish women political prisoners in the Trkish military prison in Diyarbakir 4779 Arab Arabists : Pblic Intellectals and the Prodction of Knowledge Abot the Arab World Organizers: Ellen L. Fleischmann and John Meloy Chair/Discssant: Ilham Khri- Makdisi, Northeastern U Hssam Raafat Ahmed, McGill U-Intellectal in action: Taha Hssein ( ) drawing the mission of the faclty of arts and the Arabic Langage Academy John Meloy, American U Beirt- Enlightened patriots: Area stdies, nationalism, and the Arab world Hilary Falb Kalisman, Frman U-Edcating the Arab world: Intellectals, theory and practice in 20th centry Iraq Ellen L. Fleischmann, U Dayton- Searching for Najla: The life and making of a female Arab intellectal Aaron Berman, Hampshire Col-First enconters: Abraham Rihbany, Ameen Rihani and America s role in creating Arab nationalism 4788 Histories of Place Making in the Middle East Organizers: Secil Binboga and Chris Gratien Chair: Nilay Ozok Gndogan, Binghamton U Discssant: Resat Kasaba, U Washington Meltem Toksoz, Bogaziçi U/Brown U-The second Egypt: Capitalist imaginaries of late Ottoman Çkrova Polina Ivanova, Harvard U-Greek economic migration and the rediscovery of Hellenic Cilicia Chris Gratien, Harvard U-Dystopian affect and the colonial archive of French Cilicia Secil Binboga, U Michigan-Tectonics of development: The Cold War politics of spatial expertise in Trkey MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 19

20 10:30AM-12:30PM Snday November Presenting and Representing Iran in Msem Collections and Exhibitions Organizer: Anne H. Betteridge American Institte of Iranian Stdies (AIIrS) Chair: Anne H. Betteridge, U Arizona Sheila R. Canby, Metropolitan Msem of Art-Exhibiting Iranian art in the 21st centry Smr Belger Krody, GWU Msem/ The Textile Msem-Ninety years of presenting Iranian art at The Textile Msem Linda Komaroff, Los Angeles Conty Msem of Art-The intersection of past and present in Iranian art Filiz Cakir Phillip, Aga Khan Msem- The Iranian exhibition program at the Aga Khan Msem Torism, Heritage, and the Politics of Place in the Middle East Organizer: Daniel E. Coslett Chair: Daniel E. Coslett, Western Washington U Discssant: Ala Al-Hamarneh, U Mainz Nadya J. Sbaiti, American U Beirt- Constrcting the Arab torist : Leisre and mobility throgh/in/of Lebanon, s Emily Schneider, UC Santa Barbara- Bilding and breaking ties: Political torism in Israel/Palestine Norig Neve, Ifpo-Islamic torism in Jordan: Heritage policies, paths and itineraries since the 1980s Sandrine Gamblin, American U Cairo- Heritage torism verss leisre torism in post-2011 Egypt: Notes abot crisis management, resilience and strategic choices Claire Panetta, Gradate Center CUNY- The re-formed city: Urban rehabilitation, conservation, and reclamation in postrevoltion Cairo Page 20 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program 4844 Archives, Excavation, and the Arab Present Organizer: Zeina G. Halabi Chair: Samer Frangie, American U Beirt Zeina G. Halabi, American U Beirt- Obitary of the word: Excavating the self in the demise of print media Fadi A. Bardawil, UNC Chapel Hill-An inventory of traces: Post-colonial criticism and self-fashioning Tofol Abo-Hodeib, U Oslo-The sons of Qahtan in Soth Lebanon: Amater history writing at the periphery of the state Samer Frangie, American U Beirt- Excavating criticism from the archive of the left 4870 Politics of Legitimacy in the Maghreb Organizer: Michael J. Willis Chair/Discssant: Ellen Lst, U Gothenbrg Anne Wolf, U Oxford-Embracing revoltionary legitimacy: Former RCD officials and the Tnisian prisings Vish Sakthivel, U Oxford-Reclaiming symbolic legitimacy: Feigning distance from the Algerian state Michael J. Willis, U Oxford-A tale of two elections: The politics of electoral legitimacy in Algeria and Morocco Yasmina Abozzohor, U Oxford and Ilyas Saliba, WZB Berlin Social Science Center-Commander of the faithless: Challenging the myth of monarchical religios legitimacy in Morocco 4880 Tanzimat as Translation Organizer: Melih Levi Chair: Monica Ringer, Amherst Col Discssant: A. Holly Shissler, U Chicago Melih Levi, Stanford U-Relational sbjectivities: Athorial performance and narrative identification in Ahmet Mithat Etienne Charriere, Koç U-Translation as transcription in the Tanzimat era Brc Karahan, Stanford U-Heroes in the making: Translated Eropean literatre in the Tanzimat era Monica Ringer, Amherst Col- Creative innovation as a langage of legitimation 4881 Rethinking Wahhabism in the Glf Organizer: Alexandre Caeiro Organized nder the aspices of Hamad Bin Khalifa University Chair: Alexandre Caeiro, Hamad Bin Khalifa U Discssant: Attiya Ahmad, George Washington U Anna Lkjanowicz, Hamad Bin Khalifa U-Religion, nationality and race: The experiences of Western converts to Islam in Qatar Palino R. Robles Gil, Hamad Bin Khalifa U-Shi ism in the Glf: Paradoxes of coexistence in Qatar Bothaina Aldosari, Hamad Bin Khalifa U-Qatar U-Religios broadcasting in Qatar: A stdy of two local television programs Ady Candra, Hamad bin Khalifa U-Adapting Indonesian Islam to the Glf: An ethnographic stdy of Indonesian Imams in Qatar 4900 The Islamic and the Modern in the Twentieth Centry Visal Middle East Organizers: Saleem Al-Bahloly and Nada M. Shabot Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Trkey (AMCA) Discssants: Nasser O. Rabbat, MIT and Elizabeth Rah, U Michigan Sarah-Neel Smith, Maryland Inst College of Art (MICA)-A Mid-Westerner in the Middle East: Abby Weed Grey s art collections of the 1960s Nada M. Shabot, U North Texas- Istilham: Jewad Selim s negotiation of continity in art Saleem Al-Bahloly, Johns Hopkins U-Shakir Hassan Al Said s theology of line, or the trn to Islamic philosophy after the Ba ath Cop of 1963

21 5007 Genocide and the Unmixing of Peoples: The Ottoman Empire and Its Aftermath Chair: Sarah Shields, UNC Chapel Hill Doris Melkonian, UCLA-The aftermath of genocide: Armenian women rebilding their lives Ella M. Fratantono, UNC Charlotte- Protecting rights for prodctive Ottomans: Religios and economic belonging in Mhacir (The Immigrant) Newspaper Walter Lorenz, UCLA-Relocation, resettlement, and conscription: Refgee policies dring the Rsso-Trkish War of Ilker Aytrk, Bilkent U-Right-wing antisemitism in Trkey, Ali Bolcakan, U Michigan-From mltilingalism to monolingalism: Trkish langage reform and non-trks 5019 Protest, Repression, and Cooptation Before and After the Arab Uprisings Chair: Azzedine Layachi, St. John s U Sean Yom, Temple U-Repression and learning across borders: Cross-policing between the Arab monarchies Michael Brch, Eckerd Col-War correspondents: Jornalist fatalities in Middle Eastern conflicts Jean Lachapelle, U Michigan-Protests and police responses in Egypt between 2004 and 2011, a comprehensive dataset Katty Alhayek, U Massachsetts Amherst-Neo-athoritarian feminism: Theorizing the Syrian government s cooptation of feminist discorse 10:30AM-12:30PM Snday November 19 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 21

22 1-3PM Snday November 19 SPECIAL SESSION Rondtable 4753 Alternative Archives: New Approaches to Egypt s Modern History Organizer: Andrew Simon 5046 Thinking Palestine Intersectionally Organizer: Sherene Seikaly Andrew Simon, Cornell U Aaron Rock-Singer, Cornell U Jacob Hoigilt, Peace Research Inst Oslo Discssant: Sherene Seikaly, UC Berkeley Jdith Btler, UC Berkeley Angela Y. Davis, UC Santa Crz (Emerita) Samera Esmeir, UC Berkeley Nora Erakat, George Mason U Jne 2017 will mark fifty years of the Israeli occpation of the Palestinian territories, inclding the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jersalem. This anniversary renders clear what many activists and scholars have long noted: the highly repressive Israeli military occpation is by no means temporary, bt a defining strctre of the Israeli and Palestinian political landscape. Within the United States and Erope, the growth of the BDS movement has energized activist and scholarly critiqe of Israeli state violence, both within its border and the occpied territories. And yet, despite the global growth of poplar solidarity with the Palestinian condition, the actally existing realities of Palestinians only worsen. We are interested in the new kinds of critical thinking and interventions that this anniversary demands. In this panel, we aim to bild on the crrent moment of poplar global solidarity with the Palestinian condition by thinking Palestine intersectionally drawing on histories and experiences of other anti-colonial and anti-racist strggles across the globe to envision an intersectional politics of hope in this time of political darkness. We will ask: how do these global histories inform or nderstanding of Palestine as well as inform or strategies for moving towards radical change in Palestine/Israel? How might intersectional thinking prodctively recalibrate prevailing academic and activist paradigms for anti-colonial work in Palestine/Israel? And what kinds of academic criticism and activism does this particlar anniversary of the Israeli occpation both demand and render newly thinkable? Thematic Conversation 5045 Sex & Sexalities in the Middle East and North Africa Organizer: Angel M. Foster Session Leaders: Lisa L. Wynn, Macqarie U and Angel M. Foster, U Ottawa 4806 The Dynamics of Tolerance in the Contemporary Middle East Organizers: Sean Foley and Jocelyn Sage Mitchell Chair: John O. Voll, Georgetown U Discssant: Jocelyne Cesari, Georgetown U John Fahy, Georgetown U Qatar-The globalisation of vales and the mobilisation of tolerance in the Arabian Glf Sean Foley, MTSU- The necessary evil : The toleration of tobacco in contemporary Oman Maria Tedesco, Seattle U-Tolerance and religios orthodoxy: Reevalating a contested relation throgh the lens of social imaginary Jocelyn Sage Mitchell, Northwestern U Qatar and Calvert Jones, U Maryland College Park-The natre of tolerance in contemporary Qatar Marwa Shalaby, Rice U-Drivers of tolerance in transitioning democracies: Rational, elitist, or religios? 4819 Gender-Based Violence, Solidarity, and Advocacy Organizers: Smr Atk and Elif Ege Association for Middle East Women s Stdies (AMEWS) Mary Ann Fay, Morgan State U-When legal worlds collide: Law and liberation in the United Arab Emirates Gabriella Nassif, SUNY Bffalo-Women s and gender rights activism in Lebanon: Strategies for solidarity and networking Elif Ege, SUNY Bffalo-Activism against gender-based violence in times of conflict: Krdish women s movement in Trkey Sondra Hale, UCLA-Gender-based violence and the politics of memory in Sdan s conflict zones Smr Atk, Gradate Center CUNY- Strggle to end violence against women in the age of new fascism Page 22 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program

23 4839 Transnational Andals Organizer: Eric Calderwood Discssant: William Granara, Harvard U Eric Calderwood, U Illinois Urbana- Champaign-The feminist al-andals Wail S. Hassan, U Illinois Urbana- Champaign-Al-Andals in Brazil Ahmed Idrissi Alami, Prde U-Morocco, Andalsia and the new world: Rewriting, conternarrative, and resistance in Laila Lalami s The Moor s Accont 4841 Social, Political, and Ideological Activism in the Shi i World Organizers: Zackery Heern and Robert J. Riggs Chair: Jan Cole, U Michigan Discssant: Mirjam Kenkler, U Göttingen Eskandar Sadeghi-Borojerdi, U Oxford-The poplar front in the Middle East: Revoltion and anti-colonialism in Iran s tri-continental moment Babak Rahimi, UC San Diego-Performing socialist Islam: Embodiment and politicaltheology of revoltionary action in Ali Shariati Zackery Heern, Idaho State U-Shi i activism and British imperialism in Iraq: State formation, resistance, and disenfranchisement David Siddhartha Patel, Brandeis U-Hssein amidst Hasans: The al-sadr intifadas of 1999 Robert J. Riggs, U Bridgeport- Radicalism, reform and migration: The transformations of Shaykh Nimr Baqir al-nimr 4846 Representations of Jews in Contemporary Arabic Literatre Organizer: Mostafa Hssein Discssant: Carol Bardenstein, U Michigan Chair: Emily Gottreich, UC Berkeley Mostafa Hssein, Postdoctoral Scholar-Hassan, Marcs, and Cohen: Redefining literary representations of Jews in contemporary Egypt 1-3PM Snday November 19 Brahim El Gabli, Princeton U-Literatre remembers Moroccan Jews Katharine Halls, American U Cairo- Everything was fine : Rehabilitating the Jewish other in Egyptian historiographical discorse 4867 The Ftre of Middle Eastern Regimes: At the Intersection of Domestic and International Politics Organizer: Jeannie Sowers Chair: Brce Rtherford, Colgate U Discssant: Samer Abbod, Arcadia U Marwa Daody, Georgetown U-A strctre-identity nexs: Domestic and regional drivers of Syria and Trkey s relations before and after 2011 Crtis Ryan, Appalachian State U and Morten Valbjorn, Aarhs U-Sectarianism in less likely places: The impact of rising regional sectarianism even in Jordan Brce Rtherford, Colgate U-The ftre of Egypt: From despotic to infrastrctral power? Jeannie Sowers, U New Hampshire- Targeting environmental infrastrctres, international law, and civilians in the new Middle Eastern wars 4877 The Exegetical Tradition of Avicenna s Canon of Medicine Organizer: Kamran Karimllah Discssant: Robert J. Wisnovsky, McGill U Nahyan Fancy, DePaw U- We have seen this many times : Ibn al-nafis s critiqe of Galenic hmoral theory and the anatomy and physiology of digestion Emma Gannagé, Georgetown U-The classification of medicine in some commentaries on Avicenna s Canon Peter E. Pormann, U Manchester-Ibn al-nafis and Ibn al-qff on melancholy Hammood Obaid, U Manchester-The circlation and transmission of Avicenna s Canon in early modern India Kamran Karimllah, U Manchester- Metacommentary in the medieval Islamic medical tradition: Galen, Mḥammad ibn Zakarīyā al-rāzī, Fakhr al-din al-rāzī 4888 Who Protect What! Actors of Conservation From Late Ottoman Empire to Repblican Trkey Organizers: Firzan Melike Smertas and Ahmet Sezgin Firzan Melike Smertas, Boğaziçi U/MEF U-From Paspates to Sillogos: heritagization of Byzantine remnants in sit Ahmet Sezgin, MEF U-Mehmed Ziya: An advocate of ancient monments between the Ottoman city and the Trkish nation Pinar Aykac, Colmbia U-National vs. other monments: The role of the Commission for the Preservation of Antiqities in the instittionalisation of preservation activities in Istanbl Brc Selcen Coskn, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts U-Scraping the layers: Tahsin Öz and his stylistic restorations in Topkapi Palace Msem, Maintaining Body and Mind in Modern Iraq Organizers: Alissa Walter and Andrew Alger Discssant: Sara Prsley, NYU Sara Farhan, York U-Medicine and midan: Venereal disease, sex-work, and the establishment of the Royal Medical College of Baghdad Andrew Alger, Gradate Center CUNY- A Beehive of Activity : Labor and leisre in Hashemite Baghdad, Wisam Alshaibi, UCLA-Resisting classification: Iraqis responses to Arabization dring the Iran-Iraq War Michael Degerald, U Washington-The Ba th and the non-aligned movement: More than a relationship of convenience Alissa Walter, Georgetown U-Maintaining body and mind in Baghdad dring the Iraqi sanctions: A state-society perspective MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 23

24 4913 Politics of Religion Dring WWI as Lived and Remembered in the Ottoman Empire Organizer: Benan Grams Chair/Discssant: Elizabeth F. Thompson, American U Benan Grams, Georgetown U-The Greek Orthodox of Antioch : Loyalty or pragmatism? Gregarios Haddad: Between the Ottoman Empire and the Arab rle Sami Sweis, U Chicago-Hashemite discorse on Wahhabi Islam as anti-sadi propaganda dring the Arab Revolt Joel Veldkamp, Gradate Inst of International and Development Stdies- Sectarianism, memory and contermemory of the Great War in French mandate Aleppo Odile Morea, Montpellier U-IMAF Paris 1-Politics of religion dring the First World War: Ottoman Islamic rhetoric in Morocco 4918 Intersectional Approaches to Critiqing Orientalism Organizer: Anna Crz Doja Mamelok, Le Moyne Col-Pal Bowles Orientalist rges Yasmine El Gher, City College of New York CUNY-The Self-Orientalization of the contemporary Arab artist: Les Femmes d Maroc, a case stdy Anna Crz, Tfts U- Disobedient archives and the postcolonial poet as decolonial historian 4942 New Perspectives on Literacy in TAFL Organizer: Corinne Stokes Chair: Mahmod Al-Batal, American U Beirt Navdeep Sokhey, UT Astin-Social media literacy in the advanced Arabic classroom Corinne Stokes, NYU Ab Dhabi-Using mltimodal materials to develop conceptal flency in TAFL Nesrine Basheer, U Sydney-Connectives in Arabic native speaker and non-native speaker expository and argmentative writing Page 24 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program 1-3PM Snday November 19 Katherine Whiting, The Sijal Inst for Arabic Langage and Cltre- Metacognitive awareness and strategy sage among intermediate and advanced L2 readers of Arabic 4959 Implicated Digital Transitions in the MENA Region Organizer: Karem Irene Said Discssant: Frances S. Hasso, Dke U/ JMEWS Karem Irene Said, Stanford U-Transitional differentiation in rban and digital crowds: Reassessing the place of Hay Ettadhamon, Tnis Yakein Abdelmagid, Dke U-Incongrent collaborations: The advertising indstry and politics of ndergrond msic in Egypt S. Gokce Atici, Stanford U-The doble work of behavioral advertising in Trkey: Imaging and branding 4962 The Glf: Visalizing the National Narrative Organizer: Shaikhah Almbaraki Association for Glf and Arabian Peninsla Stdies (AGAPS) Chair: Shaikhah Almbaraki, UC Berkeley Discssant: Lara Goffman, Georgetown U Shaikhah Almbaraki, UC Berkeley- Theater as nation: Nationalism as promoted by Kwaiti theatrical prodctions Ashleen Williams, U Mississippi- Matams, Ashra, and Mharaam: Examining conter national narratives in Bahrain Amina Alkandari, UC Berkeley-The desert in Expo Milano: Traditions of architectre practices in the making of a legitimate national-identity 4997 Revoltion, Refsal and Rebellion: Past and Present Silvia Marsans-Sakly, Fairfield U-The rebel and the archivist: Tracing Tnisia s forgotten history of protest Brady Patrick Ryan, UCLA-Revoltion and the abject in Intisab Aswad Emily Sibley, NYU-The politics of no: Street art and pblic performativity in the Egyptian revoltion Vivienne Matthies-Boon, U Amsterdam-Everyday insecrities: Political trama and bio-political repression in (post) revoltionary Egypt Molly Cortney, UCLA-Literatre and disenchantment in post-revoltionary Tnisia 5018 Rebels and Insrgents: Recritment, Effectiveness, and Spport Chair: Peter Krase, Boston Col Samel Plapinger, U Virginia-Insrgent effectiveness in civil wars: Evidence from Jordan and Syria Holger Albrecht, U Alabama-Warriors or believers? Strategic choice in rebel recritment in the Syrian Civil War Gnes Mrat Tezcr, U Central Florida- Political violence and civilian victimization in Trkey Ekrem Karakoc, Binghamton U-Why ethnic minorities spport for a rebel grop: The PKK case in Trkey

25 3:30-5:30PM Snday November 19 SPECIAL SESSION 5048 Academic Freedom Trends and the Work of MESA s Committee on Academic Freedom Organizer: Josha Stacher Chair: Larie Brand, U Sothern California Asli Bali, UCLA School of Law Nancy E. Gallagher, UC Santa Barbara Miriam R. Lowi, Col of New Jersey Josha Stacher, Kent State U Virginia Tilley, Sothern Illinois U MESA s Committee on Academic Freedom took on a record nmber of cases in From the contining repression in Egypt to the swift decent into athoritarianism in Trkey, many contries of the region witnessed significant violations of academic freedom, regardless of edcational level or type of instittion. Nor was the US exempt, as the arrival of new administration committed to a discriminatory approach to, among others, Mslims and Middle Easterners with the issance of sccessive travel bans, has made clear. Indeed 2017 has already demonstrated that crrent trends are likely to contine, and perhaps worsen. This panel seeks to review some of the most important cases from the MENA region and the US of CAF members will discss Egypt, Trkey and the Glf States, while another presentation will highlight the ongoing battles in the academy srronding the bondaries for the portrayal of Israel by focsing on the response to the UN commissioned ESCWA report concerning Israeli state practices of apartheid. A member of the California Scholars for Academic Freedom will discss the network and its responses to recent lawfare attacks on academics in the UC and Cal State systems. These interventions will seek to place recent developments in broader socio-political and historical context, analyzing them as integral parts of ongoing political transitions, not as developments limited to the academy. The panel will ths provide an important opportnity for MESA members to learn more, not only abot CAF's work, bt also abot the broader context in which or colleages who are on the front lines of these battles both in MENA and North America are strggling to assert their rights to academic freedom. Thematic Conversation 5033 Evalating Digital Scholarship - Proposed Gidelines for MESA Organizer: Amy Singer Session Leader: Amy Singer, Tel Aviv U Elias Mhanna, Brown U E. Natalie Rothman, U Toronto Scarborogh Chris Gratien, Harvard U Virginia Aksan, McMaster U 4776 Iraq s Many Pasts, Iraq s Many Presents: Memory, Archive, and Representation Organizer: Zainab Saleh Chair: Zainab Saleh, Haverford Col Discssant: Arbella Bet-Shlimon, U Washington Bridget Garasci, Franklin & Marshall Col- Making Iraq s marshes a world heritage site Zainab Saleh, Haverford Col-Sperflos nostalgics: Longing for an idealized past among Iraqis in London Mona Damlji, UC Santa Barbara-Seeing like an oil company: Photographic archives of modern Iraq Orit Bashkin, U Chicago-Iraqi home away from home Jewish reflections on Iraq in the diaspora Dina Rizk Khory, George Washington U-Writing Iraq s history with and against the post-colonial state archive Rondtable 4899 Apology Accepted? Combatting Islamophobia Withot Sacrificing Critical Perspective in the Academy Organizer: Jdd King Chair: Jdd King, American U Sadaf Jaffer, Princeton U Nathaniel Mathews, Binghamton U Thematic Conversation 5036 Is There a Modern Mslim Mediterranean? Organizer: Jonathan Glasser Session Leader: Jonathan Glasser, Col of William and Mary Sibel Zandi-Sayek, Col of William and Mary Jdith E. Tcker, Georgetown U Eric Calderwood, U Illinois Urbana- Champaign Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Colmbia U Edmnd Brke III, UC Santa Crz 4798 Rethinking Secrity Stdies in the Arab World: In/Secrity Beyond the State Organizers: Samer Abbod and Waleed Hazbn Discssant: Marwa Daody, Georgetown U Samer Abbod, Arcadia U-The pre-peace, post-conflict reconstrction of Syria Hamza Meddeb, Eropean U Inst-Zones of ambigity. The political economy of insecrity in Tnisia Nicole Snday Grove, U Hawai i Manoa-Participatory media and emerging landscapes of secrity and srveillance Waleed Hazbn, American U Beirt-The politics of in/secrity in an era of trblence MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 25

26 3:30-5:30PM Snday November (Trans)nationalisms and the Left in the Greater Maghrib, Organizer: Christopher Rominger American Institte for Maghrib Stdies (AIMS) Chair: Joel Gordon, U Arkansas Discssant: Alma Heckman, UC Santa Crz Christopher Rominger, Gradate Center CUNY- Radical commnists, moderate socialists, and the trans- Mediterranean left in post-wwi Tnisia Rebecca Grskin, Stanford U-Nationalism in a transnational place: Commnists and nationalists in Tnisia s Gafsa Mining Basin (1940s-1960s) Rami Ginat, Bar Ilan U-Transnationalism and nationalism: The case of Egyptian commnism ( ) Mriam Haleh Davis, UC Santa Crz- The 1964 censs in Algeria: Markets and national identities dring the Cold War 4813 After the Spring: Contentios Politics and Political Processes Beyond 2011 Organizers: Christopher Barrie and Killian Clarke Chair/Discssant: Eva Bellin, Brandeis U Dina Bishara, U Alabama-Contentios processes not protest otcomes: Sit-Ins, marches, and demonstrations in the Middle East and North Africa Killian Clarke, Princeton U-Overthrowing revoltion: The poplar roots of conterrevoltion in Egypt Christopher Barrie, U Oxford-Labor in transition: Labor protest and divergent democratization patterns in Egypt and Tnisia Ali Kadivar, Brown U-Predicaments of rapid sccess: Egyptʼs failed democratization Page 26 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program 4828 Restoring History, Recording History: From Bint al-shati to Samar Yazbek Organizer: Zim Ni Association for Middle East Women s Stdies (AMEWS) This panel is dedicated to the memory of Rla Qawas Chair: Zim Ni, Beijing Foreign Stdies U Mohammad Salama, San Francisco State U-A Revoltionary woman exegete: Bint al- Shāṭi s literary approach to Qranic exegesis Hanadi Al-Samman, U Virginia- Traversing bried cities in Samar Yazbek s The Crossing miriam cooke, Dke U-Integrating women into Islamic hagiographies 4832 The Cltral Politics of Violence Organizers: Hannah Scott Dechar and Michael Farqhar Chair: R. Shareah Taleghani, Qeens College CUNY Discssant: James McDogall, Trinity Col Oxford Shimrit Lee, NYU-Simlating the contact zone: Corporate mediations of violence in Israel, Palestine and beyond Michael Farqhar, King s Col U London- Violence, deviancy and police masclinity in contemporary Egypt Hannah Scott Dechar, NYU-Terrors of translation: Ottoman crime fiction and the politics of fear Hannah Elsisi, U Oxford-Un/Making the m taqal: Towards a cltral economy of political imprisonment in Egypt 4851 Historical GIS Applications to Analyze Economic Geography and Transport Infrastrctre in the Ottoman Empire Organizer: M. Erdem Kabadayi Discssant: Ali Yayciogl, Stanford U M. Erdem Kabadayi, Koç U and Semih Celik, Koç U-A geo-spatiotemporal analysis of poplation and economic geography for the districts (sancaks) of Ankara and Brsa, Will Hanley, Florida State U-Mapping segregation in trn-of-the-centry Alexandria Antonis Hadjikyriaco, Boğaziçi U-Mapping a moment in the Cypriot agricltral landscape: Historical GIS and the fiscal srvey of 1572 Osman Özkan, Koç U and Trgay Koçak, Koç U-Mapping historical rotes pon a geo-referenced late Ottoman coastal and land transport network 4871 Changing Configrations of the Political and the Religios in the Early Modern Ottoman and Safavid Empires Organizer: Malissa Taylor Chair: Linda T. Darling, U Arizona Baki Tezcan, UC Davis-What the Kadizadelis represent, or how the ejnebis trmped the devshirmes: Politically critical mass formation in the early modern Ottoman Empire Malissa Taylor, U Massachsetts Amherst-Contending visions of a properly Islamic land law in the Ottoman Empire Hani Khafipor, U Sothern California- Ideological sorces of the Safavid system of patronage and clientelism Maryam Moazzen, U Loisville-Imperial Twelver Shi ism and Shi i Ulama: The case of Shaykh al-islam Ali Naqi Kamarehi (d. 1650) 4876 Fraght Docs: Qestioning Categories and Exploring Infrastrctral Challenges of Docmentary Filmmaking from the Arab World Organizer: Nadia G. Yaqb Chair: Nadia G. Yaqb, UNC Chapel Hill Nadia G. Yaqb, UNC Chapel Hill- Pshing the bondaries of docmentary in post-nationalist Palestinian filmmaking Jason Fox, CUNY Hnter Col-Refsing representation: Speed, mapping, and the Abonaddara Film Collective Dale Hdson, NYU Ab Dhabi- Docmenting the Arab Glf by hearing Soth Asia Alia Ynis, Zayed U-Docmentary film edcation in the Middle East

27 3:30-5:30PM Snday November The Occlt in Islamicate Society: The Cases of Magic and Alchemy Organizer: Pamela Klasova Middle East Medievalists (MEM) Chair: Antoine Borrt, U Maryland Discssant: Matthew Melvin-Koshki, U Soth Carolina Pamela Klasova, Georgetown U-Magical and inspired speech in early Islam Emily Selove, U Exeter-Literatre as magic, magic as literatre Salam Rassi, American U Beirt-Syriac Christian interest in late medieval alchemy: The case of one psedo-aristotelian treatise on the craft Nicholas Harris, U Penn-Alchemy and economy 4882 Gender Strggles and Interpretive Frameworks: How Far Can They Travel? Organizer: Mariz Tadros Chair: Sondra Hale, UCLA Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS U London-Rethinking gender-based violence in Iraq Hoda Elsadda, Cairo U-Traveling critiqe: Gender and rights discorses Mariz Tadros, Inst of Development Stdies- Challenging nintended reifications of women s agency in the Middle East: The case of Egypt 4910 Arab, Jewish, and Arab Jewish Critiqes of Zionism Organizer: Geoffrey Levin Chair/Discssant: Liora R. Halperin, U Washington Chelsie May, U Chicago- A girl so qiet will do everything we tell her : The athority of emotions for Zionism in 1940s Iraq Shirly Bahar, American Jewish Historical Society- He made me into a spy : Arab Jewish identity and the making of Palestine into Israel Geoffrey Levin, NYU-Crisis, victims, prophets: Evolving concepts in Rabbi Elmer Berger s anti-zionist network Salim Yaqb, UC Santa Barbara-Yes we can t: Arab Americans and the Arab-Israeli dispte in the 1970s 4934 From Hope to Disappointment: The Failre of Reconciliation Processes in Trkey Organizers: Lenore G. Martin and Tgba Tanyeri-Erdemir Discssant: Kemal Kirisci, Brookings Inst Lisel Hintz, Johns Hopkins SAIS-Pride, prejdice, and presidency: A social identity theory approach to opportnities missed in Trkey s Krdish qestion Lenore G. Martin, Harvard U-A new approach to solving Trkey s Krdish isse Aykan Erdemir, Fondation for Defense of Democracies-The limits of incorporation: The failre of Trkey s Alevi opening Tgba Tanyeri-Erdemir, U Pittsbrgh- Restoring Armenian heritage in Trkey: A failed story of hope 4944 Noticing the Details: Approaches to Close Reading of the Persian Tazkira Tradition Organizer: Jane Mikkelson Chair: Alexander Jabbari, U Oklahoma Discssant: Mana Kia, Colmbia U Theodore Beers, U Chicago-How to write a tazkirah: The example of the Khayr albayan Shaahin Pishbin, U Chicago-A tale of two tazkirahs: Reading Nasrabadi and Sarkhvsh as literary history Jane Mikkelson, U Chicago-A style by any other name? Argments abot lyric style and geographical belonging in for early modern Persian tazkeres Samel Hodgkin, U Chicago-Tazkirah to chrestomathy: Persian classics between national literary historiographies 5001 Trianglated Sbjects: Displacement, Transit, and Activism Chair: Rasmieyh Abdelnabi, George Mason U Desiree Shayer-McLeod, London Schl of Economics and Political Science- Why don t they fight? The emergence and persistence of nonviolent activism in the Western Sahara Päivi Miettnen, Finnish Inst in the Middle East-The shifting patterns of information behavior among Syrian Bedoin refgees Navid Fozi, Harvard Law Schl-Iranian Shi a converts to Christianity: Seeking asylm while transiting throgh Trkey 5003 Innovations in Foreign Langage Crricla, Instrction, and Proficiency Assessment Chair: Mohssen Esseesy, George Washington U Hala Yehia Abd El-Wahab, American U Cairo-Assessment of ASL stdents throgh technology for enhanced learning Nader Morks, Indiana U Bloomington- Pragmatic transfer and langage proficiency: American learners of Arabic Dris Solaimani, NYU Ab Dhabi-Stance displays in Arabic academic writing Hssein M. Elkhafaifi, U Washington- Learners and instrctors preferences for integrated and isolated form-focsed instrction in Arabic Adil Elkhiyari, Qalam wa Lawh Center for Arabic Stdies-Collaborative platforms for creating and managing Arabic crriclms 5016 Transitional Jstice in Tnisia and Libya Chair: Yahia Zobir, KEDGE Bsiness Schl, France Alyssa Miller, Dke U-Against forgiveness: Manich Msamah and the strggle for Tnisian transitional jstice Inez Freiin von Weitershasen, London Schl of Economics and Political Science-Diplomatic recognition as de facto intervention - Insights from the 2011 prisings in Libya Samar Ben Romdhane, Moncton U Canada-Transitional jstice in Tnisia and the mediated pblicness: Towards a memorial consenss? MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 27

28 6-7:30PM Snday November 19 ***Special Event *** MESA, ACLU and the Mslim Ban Beth Baron City College and Gradate Center, CUNY Cody Wofsy Staff Attorney and Skadden Fellow, ACLU Immigrants Rights Project Asli Bali UCLA School of Law On March 10, 2017, MESA joined the ACLU and other partner organizations in a federal lawsit challenging President Trmp's second Mslim ban exective order (International Refgee Assistance Project v. Trmp). The case made its way throgh the federal corts and was placed onto the U.S. Spreme Cort docket. On Snday, September 24, pon the expiration of the partial travel ban the Spreme Cort allowed to go into effect over the smmer, the Trmp administration issed a new presidential proclamation imposing a ban on certain individals from eight contries (Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezela, and Yemen) with no expiration date. The Spreme Cort canceled the oral argments in IRAP v. Trmp and reqested that both sides weigh in on what to do with the case by October 5. Cody Wofsy (Staff Attorney, ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project) joins MESA President Beth Baron (City College and Gradate Center, CUNY) and Asli Bali (UCLA School of Law), for a discssion abot the administration s effort to ban travel from certain contries and its impact on higher edcation MESA Awards Ceremony Please join MESA in recognizing the very best in the field in 2017 Albert Horani Book Award Recognizing otstanding pblishing in Middle East stdies. MESA Mentoring Award Recognizing exceptional contribtions retired faclty have made to the edcation and training of others. Roger Owen Book Award Recognizing the very best in economics, economic history, or the political economy of MENA. Jere L. Bacharach Service Award Recognizing extraordinary service to MESA, other societies, and the field of Middle East stdies. Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards Recognizing exceptional achievement in research for and writing of dissertations in Middle East stdies. Academic Freedom Award Given in recognition of sstained contribtions in spport of academic freedom in the MENA and/or North America. MESA Gradate Stdent Paper Prize Recognizing achievements in research for and writing of a gradate-level paper. Undergradate Edcation Award Recognizing otstanding scholarship on teaching or other material contribtions to ndergradate edcation. Page 28 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program

29 8:00-10:00AM Monday November 20 TODAY S AFFILIATED MEETINGS 7-8am ARCE Fellowship Almni Breakfast Virginia C (L) 9-11am Middle East Center & Program Directors Meeting Virginia C (L) 10:30am-12:30pm MEOC Otreach Coordinators' Workshop Park Tower Site 8222 (L) 11am-1pm Arabic Collections Online Advisory Board Meeting Jackson (M) 11am-1pm Western Consortim of Middle East Centers Meeting Park Tower Site 8223 (L) 12-2pm Arabic Overseas Flagship Bsiness Meeting Park Tower Site 8216 (L) 3:30-5:30pm MERIP Bsiness Meeting Delaware B (L) 7-9pm CASA Almni Reception Harding (M) Rondtable 4748 Condcting Archival Research in MENA: Crrent Challenges, Creative Soltions Organizer: Kate Dannies, Georgetown U Chair: Nova Robinson, Seattle U Anny Gal, Georgetown U Benan Grams, Georgetown U Matthew MacLean, NYU Belle Cheves, Harvard U Thematic Conversation 5032 Unraveling the Middle East III: The End...? Organizer: Wilson Chacko Jacob Session Leader: Wilson Chacko Jacob, Concordia U, Montreal Fahad A. Bishara, U Virginia Andrew Arsan, U Cambridge Samera Esmeir, UC Berkeley Will Hanley, Florida State U Mohammed A. Bamyeh, U Pittsbrgh 4742 The Prize?: Energy, Secrity, and Expertise Organizer: Osamah Khalil Chair/Discssant: Osamah Khalil, Syracse U Roger Stern, U Tlsa/UPenn-The experts apocalypse: Peak oil and phantasm on the road to the Middle East Karine Walther, Georgetown U Qatar- The Arabian mission and British political agents in the Arabian Glf, Brandon Wolfe-Hnnictt, Cal State Stanislas-Oil sovereignty, American foreign policy, and the 1968 cops in Iraq Jacob A. Mndy, Colgate U-A sefl enemy? Libya, the United States, and the making of insecrity 4761 Islam and the State in Egypt: An Instittion-Centered Approach Organizer: Aaron Rock-Singer Discssant: Gregory Starrett, UNC Charlotte Nathan J. Brown, George Washington U-State Islam and regime Islam in the Arab world Hilary Kalmbach, U Sssex-The root of Egyptian cltre wars : Religion, state, and the ftre of Egyptian cltre in interwar Egypt Aaron Rock-Singer, Cornell U-Censoring the Kishkophone: Religion and state power in Mbarak s Egypt Mary Elston, Harvard U-Al-Majalis Al- Ilmiyya: Revival and critiqe in Egypt s al-azhar 4815 Gendering Migration & Transnationalizing Gender in the Middle East & North Africa Organizers: Lily Pearl Balloffet and Elizabeth C. Saylor Organized nder the aspices of Moise Khayarallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Stdies Discssant: Stacy Fahrenthold, CSU Stanislas Elizabeth C. Saylor, Middlebry Col- Visalizing Arab women s writings in the mahjar: A digital hmanities project Lily Pearl Balloffet, Western Carolina U-The enterprising spirit: Writing women into Soth American mahjar history Annalise DeVries, Samford U-Migrants of privilege: Masclinity, foreign capital, and shaping national identity in Egypt Ogz Alyanak, Washington U St. Lois- Trkish men and their going-ot habits: A moral critiqe of masclinity and everyday life on the Franco-German borderland 4859 Rethinking Pastoralists and Pastoral Nomadism in the Ottoman Empire Organizers: Zozan Pehlivan, McGill U and Samel Dolbee Chair/Discssant: Sabri Ates, Sothern Methodist U Elcin Arabaci, Georgetown U-Dispossession at the crossroads of the nomads, local Brsan villagers and Balkan- Cacasian immigrants Samel Dolbee, NYU-Provincializing the Shammar Matthew Ghazarian, Colmbia U-To fly or starve: Nomads, arms, and aid in the Ottoman famines of Nora Barakat, NYU Ab Dhabi-Pastoral land se and Ottoman law in late Ottoman Syria MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 29

30 8:00-10:00AM Monday November Sovereignty Reformed: Ottoman Athority Between the International and the Islamic in the Tanzimat Era Organizers: Madeleine Elfenbein and Selim Karlitekin Selim Karlitekin, Colmbia U-Tanzimat and the sworn sovereign: Oath, sbjection and athority after the Greek Interregnm ( ) Madeleine Elfenbein, U Chicago-Illiberal Ottomanism: Ali Savi s critiqe of liberal internationalism Barbara Henning, Bamberg U-Knowing one s place in Ottoman Trabzon: Entangled conceptalizations of social bondaries dring the Tanzimat period Aria Nakissa, Washington U St. Lois-Ijtihad and civilizational progress: Imperialism, capitalism, and the roots of 19th centry Mslim religios reform 4903 Colonial Regimes and Anti- Colonial Revolts Between Maghrib and Mashriq, Organizer: John Boonstra Chair: Graham Aman Pitts, North Carolina State U Discssant: Jlia Clancy-Smith, U Arizona John Boonstra, U Wisconsin Madison- Myths of protection and pacification: Syria and greater Lebanon nder early French mandate colonialism Reem Bailony, Agnes Scott Col-A tale of two rebellions: The Rif and Syrian revolts in 1925 Gillame Wadia, Harvard U-Climate and the political economy of the French Protectorate of Morocco dring pacification, Shoko Watanabe, Inst of Developing Economies-Nationalists, transnational mobilization, and poplar movements: Tnisian volnteers for Palestine in Contested Cltres of Revoltion: Cltral Prodction in the Islamic Repblic of Iran Organizers: Annie Tracy Samel and Eric Lob Annie Tracy Samel, U Tennessee Chattanooga-Promoting the cltre of sacred defense Eric Lob, Florida International U-The cltral prodction of Jihadi cltre and management Ladan Zarabadi, U Cincinnati-A moral city or spatial reprodction of Islamic patriarchy (A critical analysis of the image and spatial relations of Iranian cities) Jordan Amirkhani, U Tennessee Chattanooga-Msem as microcosm: The historical and cltral legacy of The Tehran Msem of Art 4912 Liminal Urbanity: Cities Between Rin and Prosperity Organizer: Shima Hoshyar Chair: Shima Hoshyar, Gradate Center CUNY Shima Hoshyar, Gradate Center CUNY-The afterlives of Abadan: Spatial and temporal disjnctres in an Iranian oil city Zehra Hsain, Gradate Center CUNY- Destabilizing regional frontiers: Mobility, cosmopolitanism and belonging in Karachi China Sajadian, Gradate Center CUNY- Between nostalgia and ftres-otherwise: Performances of memory in Lebanon s railway rins Hazal Corak, Gradate Center CUNY-Shifting mobility regimes and labor migration in post-commnist and Eropeanizing Kardzhali 4919 Contemporary Political Art of the Middle East Organizer: Anne Marie Btler Nama Khalil, U Michigan-Iconographic battle: Visal responses to Rab a Massacre Elisabeth Friedman, Illinois State U-Strategies of conter-occpation in contemporary Palestinian art Sascha Crasnow, UC San Diego- Capitalism and conservatism: The transformation of Ramallah in Inass Yassin s Cinema Waleed project Anne Marie Btler, SUNY Bffalo- Choftohonna: A Tnisian feminist art festival making space for the qeer imaginary Dyg Ula, U Michigan-Towards a local qeer aesthetics: Nilbar Güres s photography and female homoerotic intimacy 4922 Local Governance and Social Accontability Reforms in the Wake of the Arab Spring Organizer: Sylvia Bergh Chair: Dawn Chatty, U Oxford Discssant: Mariz Tadros, Inst of Development Stdies Ward Vloeberghs, Erasms U Col Rotterdam-The Beirt Madinati campaign: The politics of social accontability in Lebanon Joni Schwartz, CUNY LaGardia and Habiba Bomlik, CUNY LaGardia -Civic participation, engagement and organized action: A case stdy of a Tnisian activist Asya R. El-Meehy, United Nations-Local governance and social accontability in Iraq: Reflections from the edcation and social sectors Mays Abo Hegab, CARE International in Egypt-Enhancing citizen-state relationships by sing social accontability tools? CARE Egypt s experience with Egypt s Social Fnd for Development Sylvia Bergh, Erasms U Rotterdam- Enhancing social accontability throgh commnity score cards? Evidence from the edcation sector in Morocco 4930 Between the National and the International: Arab Commnists from the Mashreq to the Maghreb in the 1940s and 1950s Organizer: Sana Tannory Karam Chair: Zachary Lockman, NYU Discssant: Orit Bashkin, U Chicago Kamilia Rahmoni, U Arizona-Between French assimilationism and nationalist commnism: The impact of WWII on Tnisian Jews ideological orientations, Alma Heckman, UC Santa Crz-From flidity to exclsivity: Interwar Moroccan Jewish leftists and their Legacies Page 30 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program

31 8:00-10:00AM Monday November 20 Sana Tannory Karam, Northeastern U-This war is or war: Commnism, democracy, and internationalist nationalism in Lebanon, Articlations of Strggle in Transnational Palestinian Resistance Circits Organizer: Jennifer Mogannam Sraya Khan, Rice U-Flfilling a special role : Arab activism in the US for Palestine and the Third World in the 1960s Omar Zahzah, UCLA- I won t follow yo : Movements of resistance in Ghassan Kanafani s Letter to Gaza and Edward Said s Tribte to Ab Omar Jennifer Mogannam, UC San Diego- Violence as methodology in Palestinian armed resistance and revoltion 4953 Politics, History and State Formation in the Modern Middle East Organizer: Allison Hartnett Chair: Matteo Legrenzi, Ca Foscari U of Venice Discssants: Fred H. Lawson, Mills Col and Matteo Legrenzi, Ca Foscari U of Venice Allison Hartnett, U Oxford-Colonial legacies, landed elites and regime srvival in the Middle East Daniel Neep, Georgetown U-A historical sociology of crisis in the Middle East: From neven development to civil war in Syria Djene Rhys Bajalan, Missori State U-Unionists and liberals: An alternative paradigm 4954 From the Body to the Body- Politic: The Politics of Medical Knowledge and Practice Organizers: Ahmed Ragab and Joelle Abi-Rached Chair/Discssant: Sherine Hamdy, UC Irvine Ahmed Ragab, Harvard U-Making local medicine: Colonial discorses and the making of modern medicine in the Middle East Elise Brton, U Cambridge-The missing enzyme: Medical genetics and historical identity in Iran and Israel Joelle Abi-Rached, Harvard U-The birth of psychiatry in the Middle East: Power, knowledge, and the banality of good and evil Soha Bayomi, Harvard U-Doctors as witnesses: Forensic medicine and medical testimonies in post-revoltionary Egypt 4977 The Impact of External Actors on Political Economy Chair: William A. Lawrence, George Washington U Ali Hamdan, UCLA-Proxies, laboratories, and the prodction of space in Syria s liberated territories Cornwall Kerry-Ann, U Gelph- Transitional constittionalism: The role of international NGOs in Tnisia constittionmaking process Rana B. Khory, Northwestern U-Whither civil resistance? Hmanitarianism s impact on Syrian mobilization Erin Snider, Texas A&M U-Economies in transition: International donor assistance after the Arab prisings 4990 Knowledge Exchange and Prodction Across Borders Chair: Ahmet Serdar Aktrk, Georgia Sothern U Mehtap Ozdemir, U Massachsetts Amherst-Ottoman literary modernity in trianglation: Imperial mimesis and textal transactions in Ahmed Midhat s Hasan Mellah Engin Kiliç, Sabanci U-Khent (The Fool): An Armenian topian vision as the mirror image of Trkish topias Kaitlin Stadt, U Oxford-Slow ftrism: Peyami Safa and the avant garde James H. Meyer, Montana State U-Nâzim Hikmet in the Soviet archives Jeannette E. Okr, UT Astin-State perpetrators of violence and political victims in Müge Iplikçi s Kafdagi and Mehmed Uzn s Ask Gibi Aydinlik Ölüm Gibi Karanlik 5006 Histories of Infrastrctre and Techno-Politics Chair: Michael Christopher Low, Iowa State U Beyza Lorenz, UCLA-Urban modernity and steamboats in Ottoman Istanbl Isacar Bolanos, Ohio State U-The Hazine-i Hassa Nezareti (Privy Prse Ministry) and the expansion of irrigation in Hamidian Iraq, Mohamed Gamal-Eldin, NJIT/Rtgers Newark-Cesspools, mosqitos and fever: An environmental history of malaria prevention in Ismailia and Port Sa id, Zachary D. Cyler, NYU-The poetics of the Trans-Arabian Pipeline: Competing visibilities of an infrastrctral assemblage, Gabriel Yong, NYU-Development work: Labor at the Aswan High Dam, Analyzing the Islamic State: Strategies and Conter-Strategies Chair: James F. Goode, Grand Valley State U Didier Leroy, Royal Military Academy of Belgim-Contering Daesh extremism, perspectives from Belgim Mhammad Masd, U Massachsetts Boston-Poetry as a weapon: The poetics of jihad in ISIS s textbooks Akin Unver, Kadir Has U-Who joins ISIS? Explaining recritment throgh discrimination-exclsion model Marwan M. Kraidy, U Penn-Fn against fear: The Islamic State spectacle and conter-spectacle MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 31

32 10:30AM-12:30PM Monday November 20 Isses in the Profession Workshop 5050 Confronting Sexal Harassment in the Academy Organized by Fatma Müge Göçek Chair: Beth Baron, Gradate Center CUNY Discssant: Fatma Müge Göçek, U Michigan Marty Langelan, Langelan & Associates This follow-p workshop to one held at MESA 2016 in Boston, will featre an address by The Godmother of Direct Intervention, Marty Langelan, athor of Back off: How to Confront and Stop Sexal Harassment and Harassers. Sexal harassment of stdents and faclty is not a new problem in the academy. This problem is especially acte for gradate stdents and jnior faclty across fields of stdy. Research sggests that 30% of gradate stdents srveyed stated that they experienced some form of sexal harassment in the corse of their stdy. This finding has remained consistent over the past three decades. A new wave of stdent activism in the United States has forced colleges and niversities to review their existing policies on sexal harassment and sexal assalt. However, the isse of faclty harassers has been largely ignored International Law in the Contemporary Middle East: Impeding or Facilitating Violence? (Part 1) Organizer: Lisa Hajjar Neve Gordon, SOAS/BGU-The US drone wars and the apparats of distinction: Examining the implications of the posthmanist trn Asli Bali, UCLA School of Law-Assessing liability for war crimes in Yemen Nora Erakat, George Mason U-Dangeros expansions: The principle of proportionality in irreglar combat Lisa Hajjar, UCSB-International hmanitarian law verss the conterterrorism war paradigm: Analyzing the contradictions and conseqences of the US War on Terror 4784 Fatimid Stdies Organizer: Pal E. Walker Rondtable 4921 Material Politics in the Middle East Organizer: Fredrik Meiton Fredrik Meiton, Northwestern U Joanne Ncho, Pomona Col Elizabeth Williams, U Massachsetts Lowell Begm Adalet, NYU Thematic Conversation 5042 Fnding Opportnities in the MENA Region: Joint Degrees Organizer: Maggie Nassif Session Leader: Maggie Nassif, Flbright Commission Ehab M. Aboaish, Cairo U Jacobs Boers, Georgia State U Amr I.A. Elatraby, Ain Shams U Maysa Abo-Yossef Hayward, Ocean Conty Col Page 32 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program 4729 The Preservation of Historic Architectre in North African Cities Organizer: Ssan Slyomovics American Institte for Maghrib Stdies (AIMS) Chair: Diana Wylie, Boston U Diana Wylie, Boston U-The preservation of historic architectre in North African cities: An overview Zeynep Celik, New Jersey Inst of Technology-An nlikely do in Algiers: The Mosqe al-djadid and the State of Dc d Orléans Ssan Slyomovics, UCLA-Dismantling a world: French military monments in Algeria Daniel E. Coslett, Western Washington U-Globalization and preservation in Tnisia: On the colonial past in the neocolonial present Marc Andre, LARHRA Lyon-Repatriating militant Algerian bodies: The heritage of El- Alia Cemetery in Algiers Organized nder the aspices of Institte of Ismaili Stdies (IIS) Chair: Farhad Daftary, Inst of Ismaili Stdies Mohamad Ballan, U Chicago- Sectarianism and violence in Zirid Ifriqiyah: A reinterpretation of the massacres of 407/1016 Shainool Jiwa, Inst of Ismaili Stdies- Between the fonder of Cairo and the Caliph of Cairo: An appraisal of the reign of the Fatimid Imam-Caliph al-aziz Billah Pal E. Walker, U Chicago-Titles of honor and stats in the Fatimid realm 4803 The Conflicted Legacies of the Iran Iraq War Organizer: Kaveh Ehsani Chair: Robert Vitalis, U Penn Discssant: Ervand Abrahamian, CUNY Achim Rohde, Philipps-U Marbrg (Germany)-Military masclinity and its discontents in Ba thist Iraq Kaveh Ehsani, DePal U-The antinomies of the war in post-revoltionary Iran Norma Claire Morzzi, U Illinois Chicago-Sisters and mothers: Iranian women s war memoirs Kevan Harris, UCLA-Legacies of Mass Mobilization in the Iran-Iraq War: Findings from the 2016 Iran Social Srvey

33 10:30AM-12:30PM Monday November 20 Rondtable 4818 Teaching Middle East Stdies in a Controversial Time: Between Activism and Accontability Organizer: Victoria Hightower Chair: Victoria Hightower, U North Georgia Neha Vora, Lafayette Col Beth Derderian, Northwestern U Daniel Blmlo, Rock Valley Col Jocelyn Sage Mitchell, Northwestern U Qatar Rachael Eggebeen, Snnyside Unified School District Jill Crystal, Abrn U 4808 Gender and Mobility in Arab Women s Writings Organizers: Rima Sadek and Nancy Linthicm Chair: Johanna Sellman, Ohio State U Nancy Linthicm, U Michigan-Egyptian girls writing and the politics of translation Manar Shabok, Syracse U-In remembrance of rins or reinventing home Rima Sadek, U Soth Carolina- Identity, gender and American politics in transnational Arab women s literatre Wael Salam, U Jordan-The exile as a transgenerational fate in Ssan Maddi Darraj s The Inheritance of Exile SPECIAL SESSION 5053 Trkey Since the Jly 2016 Cop Attempt Organizers: Mostafa Minawi, Cornell U and Hale Yılmaz, Sothern Illinois U Ottoman and Trkish Stdies Association (OTSA) Chair: Yiğit Akın, Tlane U Sinan Birdal, U Sothern California Howard Eissenstat, St. Lawrence U Azat Gündoğan, Florida State U Aslı Z. Iğsız, NYU Meltem Türköz, Iþık U, Istanbl Trkey entered a new era of confsion and ncertainty in the aftermath of a failed cop attempt in Jly Government response to the cop attempt has led to nprecedented levels of investigations, arrests and imprisonments throghot the contry. Empowered by the state of emergency powers, the Jstice and Development Party government has sed exective orders to clamp down not only on individals and organizations sspected of having spported the cop, bt also any individal or association critical of the JDP government. Over a one-year period since the cop attempt, more than one hndred thosand civil servants (inclding teachers, niversity professors, doctors, jdges and others) have been fired by exective orders and more than forty thosand people have been detained on accsations of affiliation with the Gülen movement. Along with individal liberties, freedom of the press has declined rapidly. More than 184 media otlets (sch as newspapers, television and radio stations) have been closed permanently and more than 170 jornalists (inclding jornalists from the main opposition newspaper Cmhriyet) have been detained on allegations of links to the Gülen movement. More than 375 civil society organizations, inclding women s rights grops and hmanitarian organizations have been sht down permanently. These developments have profond implications for Trkey, for the region, and for hman rights and liberties throghot the world. The papers on this panel address the crrent crisis in Trkey from a range of academic perspectives Refgees From Syria: State Policies, Hmanitarian Aid, and the Lived Experience of Exile Organizer: Wendy Pearlman Chair/Discssant: Rochelle Anne Davis, Georgetown U Lamis Abdelaaty, Syracse U-The strategic se of labels for Syrians in Trkey Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern U-Socio-economic class and the lived experience of exile among Syrian refgees in Germany and Trkey Daniel Masterson, Yale U-How hmanitarian aid shapes the development of refgee self-governance Nell Gabiam, Iowa State U- Istanbl has many refgees from Syria bt no refgee camps : Creating home at a commnity center 4817 Seeking Order: Sfi Responses to Ottoman Power in 16th-17th Centry Egypt and Syria Organizer: Kristof D hlster Chair/Discssant: John Crry, U Nevada, Las Vegas Timothy J. Fitzgerald, James Madison U-Sovereignty and self-control: Shaykh `Alwan al-hamawi s (d. 1530) advice for the Ottoman rler Kristof D hlster, Ghent U-Sword and pen at the service of the Ottoman Sltan: A semiotic reading of two Ottoman texts of the hand of Mhyi-i Glsheni (d ) Side Emre, Texas A & M U-Negotiated piety: Interactions of the Khalwati-Glshanis and Egyptian Sfis with political athority in 16th centry Egypt 4834 Narratives of Strggle: Maintaining and Preserving Krdish Cltral Heritage Organizer: Christian Sinclair Krdish Stdies Association (KSA) Chair: Christian Sinclair, Moravian Col Anna Grace Tribble, Emory U-Is there a Krdish dish?: Exploring the effects of aid and internal displacement on cltrally cohesive concepts of food in Iraqi Krdistan Rken Isik, U Maryland Baltimore Conty- Reclaiming Krdish dress as political strggle contined next page MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 33

34 10:30AM-12:30PM Monday November 20 Thomas McGee, Independent Researcher-Rebilding the city or a msem left in rins? Mapping heritage in postdisplacement reconstrction plans for Kobani Amir Sharifi, CSU Long Beach-The city of Kermanshan, the site of cltral rebellion and rebirth Aynr De Roen, Binghamton U-The strggle within: Docmenting the Krdish experience in Binghamton 4847 Fashioning Philosopher- Kings in the Post-Mongol Persian Cosmopolis, 13th-19th Centries (I) Organizer: Matthew Melvin-Koshki Chair/Discssant: Kathryn Babayan, U Michigan Jonathan Brack, Hebrew U Jersalem- Philosopher-Kings in the age of Chinggisid aspicios kingship: The Sahibqiran Öljeitü and his mjaddid vizier Noah Gardiner, U Soth Carolina-Al-Malik al-zahir Barqq as millennial sovereign? Matthew Melvin-Koshki, U Soth Carolina-Performing (occlt) philosopher- Kingship in Timrid Transoxania: Ulgh Beg as sltan-scientist Marian Elizabeth Smith, U Michigan- Refigring Timr the philosopher-king in the Safavid cltral imagination accretions and interpolations to Hatifi s Timr-nama 4853 Reglating Print in the Late Ottoman Empire: A New Look into the Qestion of Censorship Organizers: Till Grallert and Kathryn Schwartz Chair/Discssant: Benjamin Carr Fortna, U Arizona Till Grallert, Orient-Institt Beirt- Athoritarianism verss liberty of speech? The theory and practices of press censorship in Bilad al-sham ( ) Annie Greene, U Chicago- The sspension of print is the hand of tyranny : Freedom of the press in Ottoman Iraq? Kathryn Schwartz, Harvard U-Print reglations in Ottoman Egypt, Ekin Enacar, U Chicago-Laghing at times of censorship: Anti-imperialism and constittionalism in Ottoman cartoons ( ) 4865 Formlaic Langage and Pragmatic Competence Organizer: Zeinab A. Taha Organized nder the aspices of American University in Cairo Chair: Zeinab A. Taha, American U Cairo Hala Elshamy, American U Cairo-An analysis of the pragmatic fnctions of idiomatic expressions in the Egyptian novel Taxi Shaimaa N. Abdel Aziz, American U Cairo-Teachers perceptions on formlaic langage Zeinab A. Taha, American U Cairo- Formlaic langage in media Arabic: The case of psedo-titles Hala Abdelmobdy, American U Cairo- Cltral nances that create challenges of teaching terms of address and terms of endearment in AFL/ASL classrooms 4883 The Arab Revolt in Palestine ( ): Internal and External Factors Organizer: Richard Cahill Chair: Charles Anderson, Western Washington U Discssant: Salim Tamari, Inst of Jersalem Stdies Michael Provence, UC San Diego- Damascs, Jersalem and Baghdad in the atmn 1936 Laila Parsons, McGill U-The Palestine Revolt and the Peel Commission intertwined Richard Cahill, Berea Col-Of walls and fortresses: Sir Charles Tegart, the Arab revolt and beyond 4893 What s Really New Abot the Trmp Era for Arab and Mslim Americans? Organizer: Loise Cainkar Arab American Stdies Association (AASA) Chair: Loise Cainkar, Marqette U Loise Cainkar, Marqette U-Conting Arab Americans in light of the threat narrative and white privilege Kristine Ajroch, Eastern Michigan U-Immigration, Middle Eastern Americans, and censs categories Danielle Haqe, Minnesota State U Mankato-Mslim and Arab Americans and the srveillance state Erik Love, Dickinson Col-Islamophobic racism and civil rights advocacy in the US, New Bondaries of State/ Resistance Constellations in the Middle East Organizer: Laryssa Chomiak Organized nder the aspices of Middle East Law and Governance (MELG) Chair: Jillian M. Schwedler, Hnter Col CUNY Elizabeth R. Ngent, Princeton U-The psychology of repression and polarization in athoritarian regimes: Evidence from Egypt and Tnisia Lana Salman, UC Berkeley-Expectation as a mode of statecraft: mnicipal enconters in post-revoltion Tnisia Laryssa Chomiak, American Inst for Maghrib Stdies-Visions of dissent in Algeria, Jordan and Tnisia Chantal Berman, Princeton U-Protest policing in Tnisia and Morocco 4949 Networks of Circlation and the Exchange of Ideas in Modern Afghanistan Organizers: Marjan Wardaki and Mejgan Massomi American Institte of Afghanistan Stdies (AIAS) Chair: Robert Crews, Stanford U Benjamin Hopkins, George Washington U-Rling the rimlands: Frontier governmentality along the edges of empire Faiz Ahmed, Brown U-Islam, monarchy, and the nation-state: Religios athority, royal legitimacy, and the Amani-Kemalist dialectic Marjan Wardaki, UCLA-An Afghan stdent in Nazi Germany: The life of Ahmad Fofolzai, Page 34 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program

35 10:30AM-12:30PM Monday November 20 Mejgan Massomi, Stanford U-Kabl cosmopolitan? Radio broadcasting and Afghan connectivity to the world, Between Continity & Change: Conceptalizing Slavery, Tyranny, Gender, and Tolerance in Islamic Thoght & the Middle East Organizer: Bader Mosa Al-Saif Chair/Discssant: John O. Voll, Georgetown U Omar Anchassi, U Exeter- So their lineages are not ct off : The reframing and reformlation of the legal discorse on slavery and slave-concbinage from the midnineteenth to the mid-twentieth centries Mohammed Bshra, Georgetown U-Conceptal change throgh transformation of lingistic norms: Tyranny in the Arab Mslim context M. Amine Tais, Georgetown U-Constrcting gender egalitarianism in Islamic feminist discorses: The works of Mernissi and Lamrabet Bader Mosa Al-Saif, Georgetown U-Diversity & tolerance in the Arabian Peninsla? Conceptal (re)prodction and its implication on religios reform 4991 Poetics of the Political Chair: Anastasia Khawaja, U Soth Florida Deborah L. Wheeler, US Naval Academy-Digital resistance and state (in) stability in Arab monarchies: Lessons from Kwait and Jordan Nasser Athamneh, Yarmok U-Al-Qds/ Jersalem between the east and the west: Images of the holy city in Arabic and English poetry Ilkim Bke Okyar, Independent Scholar-Eastern eyes, western gaze: The politics of Alexandretta in Tarik Mümtaz s cartoons, Waed Athamneh, Connectict Col- Taking the state to cort: Qabbani s poetics of the political Katrien Vanpee, U Minnesota-Poetic bay a: Allegiance performance and patronage dynamics in the televised poetry competition Sha ir al-milyn Merve Tabr, Penn State U-On self, specters and seeds: Poetics of potentiality and female diasporic sbjectivities in Lisa Shair Majaj s Geographies of Light 5008 Neoliberalism in the City Chair: Bilal Hmeidan, U Virginia Hannes Bamann, U Liverpool- Dependent neoliberalism: How Glf capital is reshaping Amman and Rabat Robert Mogielnicki, U Oxford-The political tility of free zones in the Sltanate of Oman Basak Drgn, George Mason U-Rethinking heritage conservation and rban greening in Istanbl throgh food sovereignty MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 35

36 Rondtable 4861 Navigating Jewish Camps and Commnity Debates on Israel/ Palestine in the Age of Trmp Organizer: Matthew H. Ellis Chair: Matthew H. Ellis, Sarah Lawrence Col Liora R. Halperin, U Washington Benjamin Schreier, Penn State U Joel Beinin, Stanford U Shira Robinson, George Washington U Josha Schreier, Vassar Col Sarah Anne Minkin, Independent Scholar Thematic Conversation 4965 Middle East Feminist and Qeer Stdies: State of the Field Organizer: Frances S. Hasso Session Leader: Frances S. Hasso, Dke U/JMEWS Ban Gokariksel, UNC Chapel Hill Rachel Greenspan, Dke U miriam cooke, Dke U Amy Kallander, Syracse U 4722 Trmp s Foreign Policies toward the Krds Organizer: Vera Eccaris-Kelly Organized nder the aspices of Ahmed Fondation for Krdish Stdies Chair: Vera Eccaris-Kelly, Siena Col Vera Eccaris-Kelly, Siena Col-The Krdish lobby and the Trmp administration Michael M. Gnter, Tennessee Tech- President Trmp s policy towards Krdish refgees David Pollock, Washington Inst for Near East Policy-Trianglating US interests: Trks, Krds, Arabs, Rssian, Iranians and more David Romano, Missori State U-Krdistan s Trmp card? Michael Rbin, American Enterprise Inst-Trkey, NATO, and the Krds: Balancing military interests from Bsh 41 throgh Trmp Page 36 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program 1-3PM Monday November Provincializing Political Theory: Islamic Intellectals and the Prodction of Knowledge in Trkey Organizer: Alev Cinar Discssant: Mrad Idris, U Virginia Alev Cinar, Bilkent U-Toward an anthropology of political theory: The Islamic intellectal field and the reemergence of political theorizing in Trkey Gizem Zencirci, Providence Col-Islamic political theory and the Ottoman heritage of civil society in Trkey Talha Koseogl, Bilkent U-Practices of Islamic political knowledge prodction in Trkey: Between local and niversal Dnya Deniz Cakir, National U Singapore-An Islamist genealogy of knowledge and comparative political theory in Trkey Alp Eren Topal, Koç U-Impact of the West vs Islamic tradition: Continity in Trkish political thoght 5052 International Law in the Contemporary Middle East: Impeding or Facilitating Violence? (Part 2) Organizer: Lisa Hajjar Nicola Pergini, U Edinbrgh- Hospitals shields : International hmanitarian law and the targeting of medical facilities in Middle Eastern conflicts Omar Dewachi, American U Beirt- IraqiBacter: Pathologies of intervention and the decades of US-led wars in Iraq Jonathan Whittall, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Withot Borders- Treating terrorists : Impartial hmanitarianism in the time of conter-terrorism Ghassan Ab Sittah, American U Beirt-The political capital of war wonds 4745 (Im)Mobilizing Agency in the Context of Short, Medim, and Long-term Displacement in Jordan Organizer: Rana B. Khory Chair: Rana B. Khory, Northwestern U Discssant: Sarah Tobin, Brown U Rawan Arar, UC San Diego-Sholdering the refgee brden: Jordanian sovereignty and the global refgee crisis Geraldine Chatelard, IFPO-Negotiating mobility across regimes of sovereignty: Displaced Iraqis between Jordan and Iraq Rochelle Anne Davis, Georgetown U-Models of refgee administration and hierarchies of aid Michael Vicente Perez, U Washington- Everyday life and the politics of srvival among ex-gaza refgees Lewis Trner, SOAS U London-Economics nder encampment: Re-Thinking Syrian refgee camps in Jordan 4746 A New Social Contract for the MENA Contries: Concepts, Challenges and Opportnities Organizers: Marks Loewe and Steven Heydemann Steven Heydemann, Smith Col- Rethinking social contracts in the MENA region Marks Loewe, German Development Inst (DIE)-The social contract as a tool of analysis for MENA contries Georgeta Vidican Aktor, U Erlangen- Nürnberg-Towards a new social contract: Reforming energy sbsidies in Morocco Ariel Ahram, Virginia Tech-Revisiting the rebel social contract: Evidence from Iraq and Syria 4747 Negotiating Gender and Morality in the Ottoman First World War Organizer: Kate Dannies Chair: Malek Abisaab, McGill U Discssant: Elizabeth F. Thompson, American U Secil Yilmaz, Cornell U- Licensed microbes : Pblic morality, gender, and prostittion in Ottoman Istanbl dring and after World War I Graham Aman Pitts, NC State U- Karmal Allah send me ten lira : Women, migration, and World War I in Mont Lebanon Kate Dannies, Georgetown U-Waging reform: Law and gender in the Ottoman First World War Stefan Hock, Georgetown U- Ever in need of safegarding : Gender and violence in Ottoman Anatolia,

37 4795 Protest in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa: Strategic Interaction Perspectives Organizer: John Chalcraft Chair: Charles Krzman, UNC Chapel Hill Discssant: James M. Jasper, Gradate Center CUNY Monia Bennani-Chraïbi, U Lasanne- Beyond strctre and contingency: Towards an interactionist and seqential approach to the 2011 prisings Jann Boeddeling, London Schl of Economics and Political Science- Ambigity, spontaneity, and creative agency in the 2010/11 Tnisian revoltion John Chalcraft, London Schl of Economics and Political Science- Transnational activism and Veolia: A dynamic interaction analysis Jillian M. Schwedler, Hnter Col CUNY- Protest temporalities and the meaning of contention 4824 Politics, Space, and Sbjectivity in the Arabian Peninsla Organizers: Natalie Koch and Waleed Hazbn, American U Beirt Association for Glf and Arabian Peninsla Stdies (AGAPS) Chair: Natalie Koch, Syracse U Discssant: Neha Vora, Lafayette Col Natalie Koch, Syracse U-Sporting cities: Geopolitical enconters and elite sport initiatives in the Arabian Peninsla Namie Tsjigami, U Tokyo-Sadi women as emerging new social actors: Consmption and bsiness opportnities in sex-segregated Riyadh Miriam R. Lowi, Col of New Jersey- Charity as politics writ small in GCC states Shandel Sanchez, Syracse U-Doing the state s work: Self-Governing practices by US citizens living in the United Arab Emirates Gwenn Okrhlik, National U Singapore- Torism and political crisis: Reframing people, place and plot in Sadi Arabia 1-3PM Monday November Rethinking the Maghreb: Liminality and Transversal Connections Organizer: Brahim El Gabli American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) Chair: Brahim El Gabli, Princeton U Discssant: Naima Hachad, American U Shaden M. Tageldin, U Minnesota- Sonding the Maghreb in the nahda : Nineteenth-Centry Arabic/Eropean langage politics at the interstices Hisham Aidi, Colmbia U-Tangier to Havana: Race, jazz, political nostalgia Deborah A. Kapchan, NYU- Transversality and translation in Moroccan contemporary poetry Brian T. Edwards, Northwestern U-Beyond binaries: The Maghreb after postcolonialism 4854 Materialities of Translation and Circlation: Rethinking Late Ottoman Intellectal History Organizers: Karim Malak and Casey Primel American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Chair/Discssant: Elizabeth Holt, Bard Col Karim Malak, Colmbia U-Translation s discontents: Intellectal histories of Khayr al-din al-tnisi rexamined Nada Khalifa, Colmbia U-Sense, power, strggle: Nietzsche s Philosophy of Life in interwar Egypt Jeffrey Clang, Gradate Center CUNY- The blood libel on trial: Translations of pblic interest in colonial Egypt Casey Primel, Harvard U-Translating despotism in the east: al-kawâkibî s science of politics and jornalism in the late Ottoman Empire 4887 Fashioning Philosopher- Kings in the Post-Mongol Persian Cosmopolis, 13th-19th Centries (II) Organizer: Jonathan Brack, Hebrew U Jersalem Chair/Discssant: A. Azfar Moin, UT Astin A. Tnç Sen, Leiden U-Displaying scientific wealth and erdition: A portrait of Bayezid II (r ) as a philosopherking Fatma Sinem Eryilmaz, CORPI, CSIC- Using knowledge in the making of Sltan Süleyman s legacy Hnter Bandy, Dke U-Universalizing Shi i kingship in the 17th centry Deccan James Pickett, U Pittsbrgh-First among eqals? The precarios relationship between Islamic scholars and philosopher-kings in 18th-19th centry Bkhara 4897 Slave Women in Mslim Society: Their Portrayal as Singers and Poets, Criminals and Concbines Organizer: Kathryn Hain Chair: Lisa Nielson, Case Western Reserve U Discssant: Dwight F. Reynolds, UC Santa Barbara Simone Prince-Eichner, U Michigan- Embodying the empire: Singing slave girls in medieval Islamicate historiography Carl F. Petry, Northwestern U-Female slaves in Cairo s medieval nderworld: Gendered aspects of criminality and bondage in the Mamlk period Marina Tolmacheva, Washington State U-Female and slave: Aspects of concbine vale within a hosehold Kathryn Hain, U Utah-The end of harem slavery in the Mediterranean Mslim world... or not MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 37

38 4948 Arab Leftist Intellectals as (Re)Active Agents in Times of Change Organizer: Jeremy Randall Discssant: Jens-Peter Hanssen, U Toronto Samar Nor, U Toronto-Socialism and the evoltion of socialist thoght in colonial Egypt Mohamad J Hodeib, Gradate Center CUNY-Leftist militant msic and the revoltionary war of position in Lebanon Jeremy Randall, Gradate Center CUNY- Revoltionary sarcasm in the works of Ziad Rahbani dring the Lebanese Civil War 4970 Civil Society and Social Activism Chair: Emre Erol, Sabanci U Golrokh Niazi, U Ottawa-The UGTT in Tnisia: Reclaiming the role of labor movements and trade nions as agents of political change Berrin Koync, Hacettepe U and Aylin Özman, TED U, Ankara-The state and rights-based organizations relations in Trkey since 2011: Uninstittionalized processes, conflictal enconters and personalized politics Janine A. Clark, U Gelph-LGBTQ activism in Lebanon Josepha Wessels, Lnd U-Every day peace: The ignored role of civil society in the Syrian prising Agnieszka Paczynska, George Mason U-Who strikes? Understanding workers protests in Sisi s Egypt 4978 Water Politics Chair: Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Brigham Yong U Jeanene Mitchell, U Washington- At the conflence: Transnational water management and local participation in Trkey s Kra River Basin Henny Ziai, Colmbia U-The indebted peasant : Hman capital, development and neoliberalism in Sdan s Gezira Scheme 1-3PM Monday November 20 Stephen P. Gasteyer, Michigan State U-Landscape change and the implications of intermittent water spply in the West Bank: An environmental jstice case stdy Dina Najjar, International Center for Agricltral Research in the Dry Areas- Women, irrigation and social norms in Egypt: The more things change, the more they stay the same? Carly Krakow, U Cambridge-The politics of access nder occpation: International law and violations of the hman right to water in Gaza and the West Bank 4982 Border and Bondaries Chair: Meriam N. Belli, U Iowa Aziza Khazzoom, Indiana U Bloomington-Gender traditionalism among western identified Israeli Jewish women from Poland and Iraq Itamar Radai, Tel Aviv U-al-Madaniyyat: An alternative civil perception for the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel? Ola Galal, Gradate Center CUNY- Working along El-Had: Prodcing (il)legality and contesting citizenship at Tnisia s margins in post-revoltionary times Pascal Abidor, McGill U-Contrebandes d Oignons: Cross-border smggling and the limits of the Lebanese mandate 4999 Nahda, Translation, and the Transnational Chair: Ida Nitter, U Penn Peter Hill, U Oxford-Protestantism, enlightenment, and nbelief in nineteenthcentry Syria Terri L. DeYong, U Washington-Khalil Mtran s poem Boycott and the power of censorship Maryam Fatima, U Massachsetts Amherst-Reverberations of the nahda across Asia: Reading Zaidan in Urd Maria L. Swanson, United States Naval Academy-Rssian inflences on the poetry of Mikhail Naimy and Naseeb Adeedah Rama Alhabian, Cornell U-Tho shalt not translate me: Eqivalence and contigity in the work of (Aḥmad) Fāris al-shidyāq 5000 Textal Configrations of Gender and the Body Chair: Sara Scalenghe, Loyola U Maryland Sha Kdsieh, Col of Staten Island - CUNY-The poems of Isma il al-khashshab (d. 1815) on Rémy Raige: Homoerotics or madih? Rawad Wehbe, UT Astin-Fever dreams: The narrative strctring of fever in Arabic literatre Ezgi Saritas, Ankara U-Dandies, tomboys and femme-fatales: Destabilizing heteronormativity in late Ottoman Empire Elizabeth M. Perego, Shepherd U- My name s Mhammad bt everyone calls me Aisha : Emasclating jokes from Algeria s Dark Decade, Indira Falk Gesink, Baldwin Wallace U- He makes them male and female : Intersexality in tafsir and hadith literatre 5014 Medieval Islamic Thoght at the Intersection of Intellectal and Social History Chair: Daniella Talmon-Heller, Ben- Grion U of the Negev Ltz Gerhard Richter-Bernbrg, U Tebingen-The Abbasid hose of wisdom revisited Jeremy Farrell, Emory U-Isnad-based analysis of the emergence of Sfism: A network approach Mshegh Asatryan, U Calgary-The Nsayris in medieval Syria: What can a 13th c. theological debate tell s abot them? Mhammad U. Farqe, UC Berkeley- Between mind and reality: Mlla Sadra on the problem of natral niversals Page 38 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program

39 3:30-5:30PM Monday November 20 SPECIAL SESSION Rondtable 4740 Updating the Conflict in Yemen Organizer: Daniel Martin Varisco American Institte for Yemeni Stdies (AIYS) HE Amat Al-Alim Alsoswa, Former Minister for Hman Rights/Yemen Daniel Martin Varisco, American Inst for Yemeni Stdies Sheila Carapico, U Richmond Nadwa Aldawsari, Project on Middle East Democracy Waleed F. Mahdi, U Oklahoma 5047 BDS: A Critical Evalation Organizer: Robert O. Freeman Association for Israel Stdies Chair: Robert O. Freedman, Johns Hopkins U Josha Teitelbam, Bar-Ilan U Cary Nelson, U Illinois Urbana-Champaign Ilan Troen, Brandeis U The Boycott, Divest and Sanction [BDS] movement has acqired increasing importance in academia in recent years, inclding in MESA. This panel will evalate the central propositions of BDS and sbject them to a critical academic analysis. Topics to be discssed inclde the so-called right of retrn of Palestinian refgees, an end to the occpation of the West Bank, and the improvement of the stats of Palestinian citizens of Israel (Israeli Arabs). An examination will also be made of the fate of the BDS isse in the academic organizations that have dealt with it. Thematic Conversation 5035 Everyday Life of Sectarianism in the Middle East: Ambivalent Articlations of Sectarian Difference and the Other Organizers: Yasemin Ipek and Jenna Rice Rahaim Session Leader: Yasemin Ipek, Stanford U Sad Joseph, UC Davis Joanne Ncho, Pomona Col Jenna Rice Rahaim, Macalester Col Ussama Makdisi, Rice U 4777 Waqf and Administration in the Ottoman Balkans Organizer: Jane Hathaway Chair/Discssant: Amy Singer, Tel Aviv U M. Safa Saracogl, Bloomsbrg U-Local elites and governance in late Ottoman Blgaria 4805 De-Centering the Stdy of Shi ism Organizer: Mirjam Kenkler Chair: Meir Litvak, Tel Aviv U Discssant: Said Arjomand, Association for the Stdy of Persianate Societies (ASPS) Simon Wolfgang Fchs, U Cambridge- The salience of alternative Shi i religios athority in Pakistan Mirjam Kenkler, U Göttingen-Beyond marja iyyat? Training women as religios athorities Thomas Fibiger, Aarhs U-The place and role of religios athority among Kwaiti Shi a Hafsa Obo, Northwestern U-Moroccan-Belgian Shi a Mslims in Brssels: Rethinking religios practices otside traditionally Shi a centers 4807 Frictions of Governing in the MENA Organizer: Mona Atia Chair/Discssant: Christopher Parker, Ghent U Katharina Lenner, U Bath-Poverty alleviation as assemblage - (Re-)prodcing and governing poverty pockets in Jordan Hiba Bo Akar, Colmbia U-On the rbanization of violence: Contested access to hosing for Syrian refgees in a Beirt periphery Mona Atia, George Washington U-Governing poverty: Moroccan poverty mapping in the margins Catherine Herrold, Indiana U-From activism to clientelism: The effects of foreign aid on Palestine s NGO sector Catalina Hnt, Denison U-Pios fondations (vakifs) in Ottoman Dobrca Jane Hathaway, Ohio State U-The waqfs of Ottoman chief harem enchs on the Danbe in Romania and Blgaria Sanja Kadric, Ohio State U-Potrnaks and their endowments in the Ottoman Western Balkans MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 39

40 3:30-5:30PM Monday November Schooling in Iraq: Modernity and Edcation in Iraqi Memory Organizers: Levi Thompson and Pelle Valentin Olsen The American Academic Research Institte in Iraq (TAARII) Chair: Qssay Al-Attabi, Kenyon Col Discssant: Emily Drmsta, Brown U Kevin M. Jones, U Georgia- A Cage of Disqiet : Revoltion, modernity, and political awakenings in Najaf, Levi Thompson, Brown U-The poets of the Baghdad Teachers College Pelle Valentin Olsen, U Chicago-Yoth mobilization and foreign edcation in interwar Iraq: The case of the Baghdad College 4840 Commnity Based Learning (CBL), An Instrctional Methodology for Attaining Professional Proficiency in Arabic: The CASA Experience Organizer: Iman Aziz Soliman Center for Arabic Stdies Abroad (CASA) Chair: Nevenka Korica, Harvard U Discssants: Chloe Bordewich, Harvard U and Henry Clements, Yale U Iman Aziz Soliman, American U Cairo- Commnity engagement for langage learning beyond classroom walls: The case of CASA withot borders Chloe Bordewich, Harvard U-Arabic beyond the classroom in ncertain times: CASA withot borders and the Egyptian nonprofit sector Nik Nevin, American U Cairo-Atlases and candy shops: A semester spent teaching geography in Establ Antar Michael Ernst, Independent Scholar- Film stdy, commnity-based learning, and Kāsāwiyīn bilā ḥdūd 4850 Arab Pblic Opinion Research: Challenges and Prospects Organizer: Tamara Kharrob, Arab Center Washington DC Organized nder the aspices of Arab Center Washington DC Chair/Discssant: Amaney A. Jamal, Princeton U Mohammad Almasri, Arab Center for Research and Policy Stdies-Challenges to pblic opinion research in the Arab world: A comparative analysis Jstin Gengler, Qatar U; Mark A. Tessler, U Michigan; and Jonathan Forney, George Washington U-Srvey attitdes in the Middle East: Hindrance or help? Rssell Lcas, Michigan State U-Competing conceptions of pblic opinion in Qatar Sabri Ciftci, Kansas State U; Michael Wthrich, U Kansas; and Ammar Shamaileh, U Loisville-Limitations in Arab pblic opinion srvey data: A contextdependent model of measring religiosity and regime preferences in the Arab world 4862 The Beast in Image, Text and Politics Organizers: Khaled Malas and Tarek El-Ariss Chair: Khaled Malas, NYU Jeannie Miller, U Toronto-Animal reason; Hman complsion Benjamin Koerber, Rtgers U-Zombie pblics and leviathan regimes: Literary figration and political affect in recent Egyptian fiction Khaled Malas, NYU-Representing al-fil [The Elephant] Tarek El-Ariss, Dartmoth Col-The ghol: Mythical creatre, political practice, digital condition 4874 Excavating Memories of Minorities in the Middle East Organizer: Faedah Totah Ottoman and Trkish Stdies Association (OTSA) Chair: Elyse Semerdjian, Whitman Col Pal Sedra, Simon Fraser U-From citizenship to protection in Egyptian pblic life: The role of the Coptic Orthodox Chrch in modern sectarianism Heghnar Watenpagh, UC Davis-The international cltral heritage regime and Armenian chrches in Trkey: The medieval ghost city of Ani on the UNESCO World Heritage List Elyse Semerdjian, Whitman College-The hman archive: Conversations with crypto- Armenians Faedah Totah, Virginia Commonwealth U-Remembering the Jews of Damascs 4915 Blackness in the Middle East: A Comparative Perspective Organizer: Beeta Baghoolizadeh Chair: Aslı Z. Iğsız, NYU Discssant: Michael Fergson, New School for Social Research Nathaniel Mathews, Binghamton U-Afrocentrism, orientalism and other pitfalls of stdying the Swahili: New thoghts on an old problem Beeta Baghoolizadeh, U Penn-Bying and selling blackface: Theatrical antiblackness in Pahlavi era Iran, Zavier Wingham, NYU-Dana Bayrami Festival: Forging solidarity throgh Afro- Trkish identity in modern Trkey Mayowa Willoghby, Cornell U-The gender of that which might be called blackness: Reading the Arap Baci/Kizi within Trkish poplar cltre Page 40 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program

41 3:30-5:30PM Monday November Rethinking State-Society Relations in Modern Egypt Organizer: Omar Foda American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Chair: Heather J. Sharkey, U Penn Discssant: Relli Shechter, Ben-Grion U of the Negev Ibrahim Gemeah, Cornell U-Al-Azhar and edcational reform in the thoght of Shaykh Mhammad Abdh Nefertiti Takla, Manhattan Col- Theorizing the informal economy dring WWI: Workers and political economic change in Alexandria, Egypt, Kyle Anderson, SUNY Old Westbry- The development and instittionalization of agricltral cooperatives in Egypt Omar Foda, Independent Scholar-Stella is always delicios: The nationalization of the Egyptian beer indstry 4938 Gendering the Body in the Middle East Organizers: Sherine M. Hafez and Angie Abdelmonem Association for Middle East Anthropology (AMEA) and Association for Middle East Women s Stdies (AMEWS) Chair/Discssant: Sherine M. Hafez, UC Riverside Angie Abdelmonem, Arizona State U-The predatory male body in sexal violence activism in Egypt Marta Agosti, SOAS U London-My body, my violence and my political resistance: Rape, pblic testimony, and silence at the margins of Tahrir Mrat C. Yildiz, Skidmore Col-Bilding blocks of the nation(s): Male bodies in earlytwentieth-centry Istanbl Maria Frederika Malmström, Lnd U-A real man, while Egypt falls apart Sherine Hamdy, UC Irvine-Comics as theory: Bodily vlnerability and resilience in Lissa : An ethnographic novel 4945 A New Corps for the Islamicate World and Methods for Its Exploration Organizers: Matthew Thomas Miller and Sarah Bowen Savant Middle East Medievalists (MEM) Chair: Nancy Khalek, Brown U Discssant: Pal M. Cobb, U Penn Sarah Bowen Savant, Aga Khan U-How were so many athors so very prodctive? Exploring athorial strategies in the 10th- 12th centry Middle East Maxim Romanov, Leipzig U-Looking for the athor behind the words: Stylometric analysis of al-dhahabi s (d. 1347) writings Matthew Thomas Miller, U Maryland College Park-Topic modeling genre in medieval Persian poetry: A comptational approach to medieval thematic collections of poetry Elijah Cooke, U Maryland-New advances in Arabic-script optical character recognition 4955 Rivalry, Revival, and Srvival: Contemporary Algerian and Tnisian Contestations and Reconfigrations Organizer: William A. Lawrence Chair/Discssant: Jacob A. Mndy, Colgate U Yahia Zobir, KEDGE Bsiness School, France-The giant afraid of its shadow: Algeria, the relctant middle power Azzedine Layachi, St. John s U-How instittions, strctre and agency hamper Tnisia s economic revival Maro Yossef, UT Astin-Contesting elite & state feminism: A new generation of Tnisian feminists William A. Lawrence, George Washington U-Enemies, frenemies, or rivals: The Islamic State-AQIM nexs M. Tahir Kilavz, U Notre Dame- Reconfigring athoritarianism: Post-crisis regime consolidation in Algeria 4958 Nationalism In and Ot of Translation : Theater, Satire, and Memoirs Across the Persianate World Organizers: Rstin Zarkar and Sheida Dayani Chair: Blake Atwood, UT Astin Belle Cheves, Harvard U-Love and socialist realism: Translating Gorky in Iran Sheida Dayani, Harvard U/NYU- Staging Hobb-al-Vatan : Patriotism and nationalism in nineteenth- and twentiethcentry Iranian plays Rstin Zarkar, NYU-Trning hooligans into toilers: Satire and Tajik nationalism in Mllo Mshfiqi ( ) 4968 Cltral Politics of Yoth Chair: Michelle Mann, Washington State U Jacob Hoigilt, Peace Research Inst Oslo-Arabic adlt comics and the politics of yothflness Delal Aydin, Binghamton U-The formation of revoltionary sbjects: Krdish yoth politics in the 1990s Cara Piraino, U Chicago- Omanis being Omanis, there aren t going to be any problems : Yoth in Mscat and the aging Renaissance Jonathan Gyer, Harvard U-Nationalism for kids: How Egyptian comics teach conflict Manata Hashemi, U Oklahoma-Mobility and stats in Iran s Pāyin-e Shahr 4974 State Consolidation and Contestation in Qajar and Pahlavi Iran Chair: Saghar Sadeghian, Willamette U Lior B. Sternfeld, Penn State U-The Pahlavi era as a golden age for Jewish political activism in Iran Daniel Sheffield, Princeton U-Toward a social history of late Pahlavi (Zoroastrian Middle Persian) Saghar Bozorgi, NYU-Localization of national politics: The experience of condcting elections in Kashan, Iran ( ) Chelsi Meller, Tel Aviv U-Contesting the Persian Glf: Iran s naval vision past and present contined next page MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 41

42 3:30-5:30PM Monday November 20 James M. Gstafson, Indiana State U-Vaqf and ecology: Reading the endowment of the Madrasa-yi Sltani from an environmental history perspective Assef Ashraf, Bryn Mawr Col-A familial state: The divan and the formation of Qajar Iran 4976 Women and Leadership: Past and Present Chair: Mirna Lattof, Arizona State U Tara Stephan, NYU-The pblic presence of Mamlk princesses Sarah Fischer, Marymont U-Women and seclar opposition parties in Islamistdominated political systems Feyza Brak Adli, Boston U-Female religios athority and Islamic feminist conterpblic in Trkey: The case of Rifai Shaykha Cemalnr Sargt 4989 States and Identities in the Oil-Rich Arab World Chair: Kristi N. Barnwell, U Illinois Springfield Erick Viramontes, Astralian National U-Self-determination, otherness and sbjectivities: Constrcting Qatari national identity in a period of reform Anas Alahmed, Indiana U Bloomington-A stdy of the cltral prodction of modernity in Sadi Arabia throgh the general athority for entertainment and neoliberal capitalist politics Faris Almtairi, Carbondale, IL-An analysis of stdy abroad: Understanding the state-society relationship in Sadi Arabia Mehran Kamrava, Georgetown U Qatar- The state and the changing social contract in the GCC MESA Members Meeting 6-8pm Marriott Salon 1 See page 4 for details. Monday evening we invite yo to nwind and let loose with DJ Bassam bringing the beat to the annal DANCE PARTY Featring a mix of electic Global Rhythms and a strong dose of Middle Eastern msic. Page 42 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program

43 Rondtable 4830 Can Yo Read This One? New Advances and Isses in Digital Recognition of Printed/ Handwritten Arabic Characters Organizer: M. Safa Saracogl Chair: M. Safa Saracogl, Bloomsbrg U Krsat Aker, Miletos R&D/METU M. Erdem Kabadayi, Koç U Mehmet Can Yavz, Koç U M. Safa Saracogl, Bloomsbrg U Maxim Romanov, Leipzig U 4737 Reflections on the State and Statelessness in the Post-Arab Spring Era Organizers: Sami Emile Barodi, Rola El-Hsseini and Lina Beydon Organized nder the aspices of Lebanese American University Chair/Discssant: Nadim Shehadi, Tfts U Imad Salamey, Lebanese American U-The rise of commnitarian states in the Middle East Rola El-Hsseini, Lnd U-Gender and the sectarian state Sami Emile Barodi, Lebanese American U-The problematic notion of the Islamic State in the discorses of contemporary Islamists Tamirace Fakhory, Lebanese American U-Displacement and statehood: The case of Lebanon s coping mechanism with Syria s refgee inflx Lina Beydon, Lebanese American U-Statelessness in the post-arab Spring era 4775 Literary Genealogy in Medieval and Modern Iberia and North Africa Organizer: Kevin Blankinship Chair: Kevin Blankinship, U Chicago Discssant: Szanne P. Stetkevych, Georgetown U Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS Col-Resistance to loss throgh the preservation of form: The contining practice of adab in the 20th centry 8-10AM Tesday November 21 Kevin Blankinship, U Chicago-Al- Ma`arri s menagerie in the Maghreb Enass Khansa, Harvard U/American U Beirt-How an anthology crated a caliphate: On al- Iqd ( The Necklace ) and the Umayyads of al-andals Nizar F. Hermes, U Virginia-When a poet s heart brns for a brned city: Ibn Sharaf al- Qayrawānī s elegy for Qayrawan 4823 Imagery in Jewish Morocco Organizer: Patricia Goldsworthy American Institte for Maghrib Stdies (AIMS) Discssant: Katarzyna Pieprzak, Williams Col Patricia Goldsworthy, Western Oregon U-Pictring the mellah: Joseph Bohsira and Moroccan Jewish photography Aomar Bom, UCLA-Captives of the mellah?: Moroccan rral Jewry in the colonial postcard Emma Chbb, Smith Col-Docments of diaspora: The Boccaras in Ntifa, 1971/2011 Oren Kosansky, Lewis & Clark Col-Saints in the age of mechanical reprodction: Religios icons in Jewish Morocco 4829 Historical Perspectives on the Life Worlds of Middle Eastern Oil Organizer: Nelida Fccaro Chair: Nelida Fccaro, NYU Ab Dhabi Discssant: Mandana E. Limbert, Qeen s Col CUNY Mattin Biglari, SOAS U London-Making workers invisible: The prodction and representation of expertise in the Abadan refinery and beyond, Gregory Brew, Georgetown U-Bilding the petrochemical paradise: Oil, water and soil in the US-Iranian project in Khzestan Nelida Fccaro, NYU Ab Dhabi-Telling stories of rban, sbrban and indstrial oil lives: Corporate propaganda in Iraq, Kwait and Bahrain in the 1950s Matthew MacLean, NYU-Oil, mobility, and state-bilding in the United Arab Emirates 4831 Circlation and Migration: Armenian Migrants in the Ottoman Empire and Beyond Organizers: Yasar Tolga Cora and Dzovinar Derderian Chair/Discssant: Hori Berberian, UC Irvine Vazken Khatchig Davidian, Birkbeck, U London-Black news of an absent bantokhd son: Garabed Nichanian s The Reading of the Letter Dzovinar Derderian, U Michigan- Traversing space and transforming belongings to nation and empire among itinerants of Van, 1820s-1870s Yasar Tolga Cora, Bogaziçi U-Local belongings, (trans-)imperial networks, nonstate actors: Armenian homeland associations in the late Ottoman Empire and beyond David Low, U Michigan-The itinerant image: Domestic photographs in an age of global movement 4892 Children, Yoth, and Media in Middle Eastern Conflict Zones Organizer: Yael Warshel Chair: Yael Warshel, Penn State U Yael Warshel, Penn State U-Children, yoth, and media in Middle Eastern, North African, and Glf conflict zones Weeda Mehran, McGill U-Militant children on social media: Cbs of the Caliphate and Taliban s Soldiers of God Tgce Kayaal, U Michigan-War, orphanages, and print media: Gendering and nationalizing orphan boys in the late Ottoman Konya dring the First World War ( ) Mariam Abdl-Dayyem, U Otago-Digital cltre of contention of Palestinian yoth in the West Bank MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 43

44 4905 Egypt s Jdiciary Since the Revoltion Organizer: Jeffrey Sachs Discssant: Ellis Goldberg, U Washington Monika Lindbekk, U Oslo-Jdicial activism in the field of Egyptian shari a-derived family law Jeffrey Sachs, Acadia U-Technically speaking: Locating the law in postrevoltionary Egypt Hind M Ahmed Zaki, U Washington- The trimph of sovereignty over legitimacy: The weakening of the jdiciary in postrevoltionary Egypt Mona Oraby, Amherst Col-Law, rights, and jdicial activism: The politics of religios conversion in Egypt Rondtable 4929 Social Media, Feminist Praxis, and State Power Organizer: VJ Um Amel Mark Le Vine, UC Irvine Lisa Parks, MIT Manal Hassan, Motoon VJ Um Amel, UC Santa Barbara Abir Ghattas, Majal 4940 Athority in Concrete: State, Space, and Infrastrctres in Trkey Organizer: Sinan Erensü Chair/Discssant: Emrah Yildiz, Northwestern U Sinan Erensü, Northwestern U-Infrastrctre rles: On Trkey s infrastrctres-led regime of rgency Zeynep Ogz, Gradate Center CUNY- Wells of failre: Oil exploration, conspiracy theory and power in Trkey Bengi Akblt, Concordia U-Trobled waters of hegemony: Shifting nexs of hydropower in Trkey Firat Bozcali, U Penn-Contested infrastrctres: Batman refinery, oil pipelines, and Krdish economies of oil theft in Batman, Trkey Cihan Tekay, Gradate Center CUNY- Electrifying the nation-state: Generating consent in repblican Trkey 8-10AM Tesday November Islamist Thoght and Practice Chair: Qinn Mecham, Brigham Yong U Yaseen Noorani, U Arizona-The literary aesthetic fondations of Islamism in Sayyid Qtb Yasser Sltan, Georgetown U-The ambivalence of religios modernization: Women s edcation and veiling between Rashid Rida, Qasim Amin and Malak Hifni Nasif Josha Donovan, Colmbia U-Between liberalism and Islamism: The Mslim Brothers and the United Nations Monah Abdel Samad, San Diego State U-Do Islamist parliamentarians provide services to the poor and middle class? Evidence from North Africa 4971 Foreign Relations in and Beyond the Middle East Chair: Robert Mason, American U Cairo Josha Teitelbam, Bar-Ilan U-Ot of Arabia: The Mahmal Incident of 1926 and the demise of Egyptian inflence in the Hijaz Ana Torres-Garcia, U de Sevilla-The impact of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war on Morocco s foreign relations Islam Hassan, Georgetown U Qatar-UAE: A small state with middle power aspirations Sssan Siavoshi, Trinity U-Iran-China relations: Past, present, and ftre Matthew Cebl, Yale U-Military adience costs and the Six Day War: Evidence from Egypt and Jordan 4972 Transactions of Knowledge and Power: East-West and West- East Chair: Gökser Gökçay, Texas State U Kent F. Schll, Binghamton U-Criminal jstice reform in the global progressive era: Erasia of the early 20th centry Jameel Haqe, Minnesota State U, Mankato-Reflections of war: The US conslate dring World War I Amjad Dajani, Northwestern U-Sheikh al-islam of the British Isles, Sheikh Abdllah Qilliam 4983 Diaspora and Political Participation Chair: Ammar Naji, Colorado Col Tarek Shago, U Chicago-Nationalism at home and abroad: The impact of expatriate Libyan opposition on the development of a national identity Ammar Naji, Colorado Col-Rethinking post-colonialism throgh the lenses of modern Middle Eastern migratory formations Emanela Dalmasso, U Amsterdam-May I borrow yor MPs? The political participation of athoritarian diasporas Michael Akladios, York U-The stigma of Arab-ness: Coptic immigrants self- Orientalism in Toronto, The Srreal and the Real between Orientalism and Post- Orientalism Chair: Sena Karasipahi, Texas A&M U Angelica Maria DeAngelis, American U Kwait-La chose inachevée: The role of women in contemporary Algerian society and cinema Defne Kirmizi, Boston U-The neo-avantgarde art scene in Trkey from 1970s to present Alyeh Mehin Jafarabadi, U Arizona- Shirin Neshat s photos in the frame of Orientalism: For whom do we pose? Lara Metzler, Maraya Art Centre- Genetics, physics, and transcendence in the later work of Saloa Raoda Chocair Sam Bardaoil, Art Reoriented- Rethinking srrealism: Art et liberté (f. 1938), and the sbjective realism of Ramses Yonane ( ) Page 44 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program

45 5013 The Formation of the Seclar Since Ottoman Times Chair: Metin Heper, Bilkent U Mohamed Daadaoi, Oklahoma City U-Seclar Islamists: The Rise of neo-islamism in Tnisia and Morocco Amir Toft, U Chicago-Sacred and seclar jstice in the Ottoman Empire: The exection of Râziye and its aftermath (c. 1590) Omar Omar, American U Cairo-Between the magical and the mndane: Holy fools, the homeless and street-dwellers in contemporary Egypt Arthr S. Zárate, Colmbia U-Rethinking Sfism and the spernatral in Islamic reform 5017 Perspectives on Nationalism: Anti-Imperialism, Commnity- Bilding and the Body Chair: Elizabeth Bishop, Texas State U San Marcos Nicholas E. Roberts, Sewanee: U of the Soth-Pan-Islam and Palestinian nationalism in mandate Palestine Syeda Qratlain Masood, Brown U-Where we are born and the soil from where we eat: The idea of terric nationhood Jonathan Sciarcon, U Denver-Picking p the pieces: The alliance Israélite Universelle in Baghdad, Joseph Leidy, Brown U-Competing masclinities in the mahjar: Syrian social nationalist recritment in Argentina ( ) 8-10AM Tesday November Leisre, Consmerism, and Food Chair: Roberto Mazza, U Limerick Amber J. Howard, UT Astin-Kitchen resistance: Occpied foodways and Palestinian womenʼs cookbook prodction Maayan Hilel, Tel Aviv U- We also lived a little : Leisre and recreation of ordinary Palestinians; Women, children and workers, Barbara J. Michael, UNC Wilmington- Sstenance, power and atonomy: Baqqara women s private and pblic assertion of atonomy throgh food David Rahimi, UT Astin- To make a man s life happy : Prostittion and consmerism in 1960s and 1970s Iran 5024 Ethnographies of Everyday Politics Chair: Hale Yılmaz, Sothern Illinois U Carbondale Mrat Metinsoy, Istanbl U-Reconsidering Trkey s democratization: Role of social resistance in everyday life in Mine Eder, Boğaziçi U-Migrant perceptions in Istanbl: Is it the economy? Elise Massicard, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifiqe-Street-level officials and everyday politics in Trkey Hebatallah Khalil, U Illinois Urbana Champaign-Revoltion in parallel times: An ethnography of an Egyptian village in flx Jose Ciro Martinez, U Cambridge-Site of resistance or apparats of acqiescence? Everyday tactics at the bakery MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 45

46 10:30AM-12:30PM Tesday November 21 Rondtable 4727 Defining Early Modernity in Ottoman History Organizers: Antonis Hadjikyriaco and Bogac Ergene Chair: Bogac Ergene, U Vermont Palmira Brmmett, Brown U Antonis Hadjikyriaco, Boğaziçi U Virginia Aksan, McMaster U Jane Hathaway, Ohio State U Linda T. Darling, U Arizona Thematic Conversation 5040 Reading Middle Eastern Literatres Comparatively Organizer: Roberta Micallef Session Leader: Roberta Micallef, Boston U C. Ceyhn Arslan, Koç U Persis M. Karim, San Francisco State U Hlya Adak, Sabanci U 4724 Labor, Capitalism and Mobilization After the Arab Spring Organizer: Zep Kalb Chair/Discssant: Joel Beinin, Stanford U Lorenzo Feltrin, U Warwick-Between a rock and a hard place: Trade nions, class, and the state in Algeria and Tnisia Zep Kalb, U Oxford- Etelaf (coalition) or ekhtelaf (contention)? Labor insrgency and class politics after Iran s Green Movement Sahan Savas Karatasli, Princeton U-Capitalism, crisis and labor nrest in the post-arab Spring Middle East: A comparativehistorical perspective 4750 Psychiatry in the Middle East: Hospitals, Science and Care Organizers: Lamia Moghnie and Ana Vinea Discssant: Chris Dole, Amherst Col Chris Wilson, U Cambridge- All capable of work shold be ths employed : The therapetic, social, and economic benefits of patient work in mental instittions at Cairo, Beirt, and Bethlehem, ca Page 46 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Lamia Moghnie, Arab Concil for Social Sciences- The forsaken sfferers of mental diseases : Massacre, hmanitarianism and the emergence of modern psychiatry in late Ottoman Syria Filippo Maria Marranconi, EHESS- Mental health services as politics: Exploring the experience of sffering among Syrian displaced in Lebanon Ana Vinea, U Michigan-Debating law, cltre, and mental health: A view from contemporary Egypt Mac Skelton, Johns Hopkins U- We are all psychiatrists : Oncology and palliative care in Iraq 4762 Tradition and Modernity: Reform, Gender, and Neo- Traditionalism in Egypt and Beyond Organizer: Mark Sedgwick Chair: Morten Valbjorn, Aarhs U Dietrich Jng, U Sothern Denmark- The modern athenticity of Islamic traditions : Modernity and mltiple modernities in the Mslim world Mervat Hatem, Howard U-The 1929 Egyptian Personal Stats Law, its modern re-inventions of Islamic traditions and the constrction of gendered individals Mark Sedgwick, Aarhs U-Neotraditionalist Islam as postmodernity Kirstine Sinclair, U Sothern Denmark- Is clinical psychology sefl, Shaykh? Qestions of modernity, tradition and athority at Islamic colleges 4763 Gendered Transformations: New Women of the Mandate Period Organizers: Camila Pastor and Nova Robinson Chair/Discssant: Ellen L. Fleischmann, U Dayton Leyla Dakhli, CNRS (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin)-Women at work (Jersalem, ) Nova Robinson, Seattle U-Showcasing the new Arab woman abroad: Syrian women s speaking tors in the United States in the 1940s Ssanna Fergson, Colmbia U-Maids, servants, and wet-nrses in the Arabic women s press Camila Pastor, CIDE-That whore called Tangier 4780 Making Falsafa: Towards a Modern History of Arabic Philosophy Organizer: Angela Giordani Robert J. Wisnovsky, McGill U-Mhammad Abdh as Avicennian philosopher Ahmed El Shamsy, U Chicago-Editing classics of Islamic philosophy, late 19th and early 20th centries Angela Giordani, Colmbia U-Arabic philosophy, competing niversalisms, and the Egyptian nahda Mrad Idris, U Virginia-Illstrating Islamic philosophy: Post-colonial canons, edcation, identity, and Ibn Tfayl s Hayy ibn Yaqzan, Mizrahi Cltral Trespassers: Bondary Crossing, Patriotism and Betrayal in Israel/Palestine Organizer: Shay Hazkani Discssant: Michelle Campos, U Florida Shay Hazkani, U Maryland College Park- When both foe and friend look alike: Mizrahi Jews in the 1948 War Bryan K. Roby, U Michigan-Repatriation and transgressive migrations of Mizrahi Jews from Israel to the Arab world Hillel Cohen, Hebrew U Jersalem- Sephardi-Arab joint resistance to Eropean- Zionism: Reality and hope Shayna Zamkanei, U Michigan-Do Mizrahi Holocast commemorative practices challenge the Zionist project? 4856 Mediterranean Crossings and Tnisian Settlements, Organizer: Sarah DeMott Discssants: Mark I. Choate, Brigham Yong U and Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Colmbia U Sarah DeMott, NYU-Mediterranean intimacies: An archipelago formation between Sardinia and Tabarka Gabriele Montalbano, Ecole Pratiqe des Hates Etdes-Nation-biding across transnational bondaries: The constrction of a national identity among the Italians living in French Tnisia

47 10:30AM-12:30PM Tesday November 21 Chiara Pagano, Roma Tre -Tripolitanian migrants in Tnisian protectorate: Challenging the colonial imaginary of French Maghreb Giorgia Cantarale, Sapienza U of Rome- EU-Tnisia relations after the Arab Spring: Migration politics, asylm and hman rights protection Ilaria Giglioli, UC Berkeley-Colonial mobilities & contemporary connections. Mobilizing histories of Sicilian sothward Mediterranean migration in contemporary Sicily Valentina Zagaria, London Schl of Economics and Political Science-Death at Erope s border: Brial practices and morning across the Mediterranean Sea 4869 Loyalists in the Glf: Reliable Partners or Independent Actors Organizers: Cortney Freer and Jessie Moritz Chair: Michael Herb, Georgia State U Discssant: Farah Al-Nakib, American U Kwait Cortney Freer, London Schl of Economics and Political Science-Clients or challengers?: Tribal constitents in Kwait, Qatar, and the UAE Kristin Smith Diwan, AGSIW- Transnational clerical associations in Qatar and the UAE Jessie Moritz, Princeton U-Loyalist roots, reformist attitde: The Al-Fateh Yoth Coalition in Bahrain Andrew Leber, Harvard U-Trading off on loyalty: Bsiness elites in the Glf 4890 Syrian Krds: Contesting Bondaries Organizer: Hseyin Rasit Chair: Vera Eccaris-Kelly, Siena College, Discssant: Mehmet Grses, Florida Atlantic U Hseyin Rasit, Yale U and Alexander Kolokotronis, Yale U-Vangards of antistatism: Hope and tension in the ideological project of Rojava Ipek Demir, U Leicester UK-The global soth in the Middle East?: The case of Syrian Krds Mstafa Grbz, American U-The rise of Krdish qasi-state in Syria: Prospects and challenges Seevan Saeed, U Exeter-Independency and sovereignty; The state and non-state actors: The case of Syria Wendelmoet Hamelink, Center for Gender Research, Oslo-Images in exile. Gender, representation and everyday life of Syrian Krdish women in Norway 4933 Art and Mediation: Affective and Socio-Political Practices of Revoltionary Challenges Organizer: Rania Gaafar Chair: Adel Iskandar, Simon Fraser U Srti Singh, American U Cairo-The sbjective trn in contemporary Egyptian art Maymanah Farhat, Independent Scholar-Cynicism and sorrow in Syrian art after the prising Rania Gaafar, U Siegen (Germany)- Aesthetics of crisis in the Arab world Epistemologies of connectivity in docmentary modes of the real VJ Um Amel, UC Santa Barbara-Media sosveillance on its back 4951 Missionary Renegades: Resisting the Metanarrative in the Ottoman Empire and Trkey Organizer: Carolyn Goffman Chair: Allen Hibbard, Middle Tennessee State U Henry Clements, Yale U-Local expertise and the East Trkey mission: Syriac orthodoxmissionary enconters in the late Ottoman Empire Carolyn Goffman, DePal U-Relegating race hatred to the Ottoman past: Mary Mills Patrick s positive narrative of the new Trkey Faith J. Childress, Rockhrst U- Don t let America go to war! : The pacifist views of Edith Parsons 4964 Echoes of Battle: Legitimation, Memory, and the Distant Past in Islamic Narratives Organizer: D. Gershon Lewental Scott Savran, King Abdllah Academy- Righteos Hns and Islamic Kerygmatic memory D. Gershon Lewental, U Oklahoma/ Shalem Col-Call-and-response battles in Syria and Iraq: The literary constrction of Islamic collective memory 4979 Peasants, Land, and Politics Chair: Harrison Gthorn, Sltan Qaboos Cltral Ctr Marion Dixon, American U-Land reclamation and expanded commodity prodction in the longe drée Yelda Kaya, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart U-Parliamentary politics in early repblican Trkey: Contestations over settlement, land se and property rights Jeffrey D. Reger, Georgetown U-The Palestinian olive sector of the West Bank: Between Israel and Jordan, Beng Krtege Sefer, Binghamton U-Competitive party politics, landless peasant women, and their political activism in two villages: Rethinking rral class strctre in Trkey after World War II Andrew Akhlaghi, UT Astin-Peasant activism dring the Soviet occpation of Iran 4993 Melancholia, Race, and Enslavement Leila Portavaf, U Toronto-In the shadows of Glistan: Servants and enchs of Nasser al-din Shah s cort Katie Hickerson, U Penn-The Seligmans snapshot: Fnerary rites, a history of violence, and cltral resilience in Sdan, Noa Shaindlinger, North Carolina State U-Israel and the social sciences, or why race matters 4995 Teaching in and on MENA: Programs and Histories Chair: Tessa Farmer, U Virginia Tessa Farmer, U Virginia-Coherence and eqivalence: Geographic imaginaries of global/middle East/Soth Asia Manal Saleh, Lebanese American U and Ketty Sarophim-McGill, Lebanese American U-Establishing programs for gifted learners in Lebanon MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 47

48 10:30AM-12:30PM Tesday November Invoking Religion in and Against Imperialism, Occpation, and War Chair: Hind Arrob, Fordham U Veysel Simsek, Yale U-How the infidel Sltan called his Mslim sbjects to war: Islam, state discorse, and organized violence dring the later reign of Mahmd II ( ) Isaac Friesen, U Toronto-A bishop, not a pawn: The roots and reflexivity of Anba Athanasis tolerant liberalism Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Texas A&M U-Contesting religios legitimacy in the Iran-Iraq War Lyndall Herman, U Arizona-Hamas throgh a difference lens: What memoirs reveal abot the organization s competing priorities Kenny Schmitt, Exeter U-Sfism in Jersalem: Instittional disrptions and sbversive transformations 5012 Literary Configrations of Seclar Modernity Chair: Nathaniel Greenberg, George Mason U Radwa El Baroni, UT Astin- Contemporary Egyptian historical fiction: What s at stake? Ahmad Agbaria, UT Astin-Dar al-taliaa a powerhose of seclar ideas Razi Ahmad, U Kansas-Heterogeneity of Iranian modernity in Ja far Modarres Sadeqi s Nakoja-Abad ( Nowhereland, 1990) Adam Spanos, NYU-The past, present and ftre of literary commitment in Arab anticolonialism 5026 Media: Circlation and Censorship Chair: Ozde Celiktemel-Thomen, U College London Jennifer Botz, U Maryland College Park-Taboo langage in Arabic social media: Recent developments and emerging trends Amirhossein Teimori, U Illinois Urbana-Champaign-Representations of Iran in Arab conventional and new social media: Al-Jazeera verss Faisal Al-Kasim s Twitter activity Maral Karimi, U Toronto-A movement co-opted: A critical discorse analysis of the Iranian Green Resistance Movement of 2009 Dena Afrasiabi, UT Astin-Walking the digital city: Langage and space in Iranian digital folk narratives Eoghan Stafford, UCLA-Media reform and censorship in Ben Ali s Tnisia Page 48 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program

49 4739 On the Verge of Rot: The Politics of Hope and Disappointment Post the Arab Spring Organizer: Nermin Allam Chair: Amaney A. Jamal, Princeton U Discssant: Nathan J. Brown, George Washington U Shimaa Hatab, Cairo U-Contested power and athoritarian restrctring: Egypt between Janary 2011 and Jne 2013 Nermin Allam, Princeton U-Activism amidst disappointment: Women s grops and the politics of hope in Egypt Steven T. Brooke, U Loisville-Sparks and firewalls: The dillsion of protest and qiescence in the post-arab Spring Middle East Mariam Georgis, U Alberta-Post-2003 Iraq: A postcolonial, Iraqi perspective on the crisis of democratic nation-bilding 4755 Memory and identity: The Significance of Locality in Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Centry Egypt and Israel/Palestine Organizer: James Whidden Chair: Mona L Rssell, East Carolina U Shana E. Minkin, Sewanee: U of the Soth-Morning the imperial dead in trnof-the-centry Egypt James Whidden, Acadia U-Things left nsaid: Colonial memory and belonging Rth Amir, Yezreel Valley Col-Who, after all, remembers today the Armenian village? Sara Nimis, American Research Center in Egypt-Remembrance as protest: Mltiple meanings nder the Dome of Sayyida Nafisa in Cairo 1-3PM Tesday November Hmanitarianism in the Ottoman Empire Dring World War I Organizer: Stacy Fahrenthold Society for Armenian Stdies (SAS) Chair/Discssant: Barlow Der Mgrdechian, CSU Fresno Melanie S. Tanielian, U Michigan- Norishing bodies and sols: The Maronite Chrch s relief effort in Mont Lebanon dring the Great War Stacy Fahrenthold, CSU Stanislas- American relief and émigré politics in the Syrian mahjar Asya Darbinyan, Clark U-Can refgees speak? Hmanitarian crisis at the Ottoman- Rssian border ( ) Khatchig Moradian, Colmbia U-Not like a lamb to the slaghter: Hmanitarian resistance dring the Armenian Genocide 4802 Mass Media in Middle East Historiography Organizer: Andrew Simon Chair: Jonathan Smolin, Dartmoth Col Yasemin Gencer, Independent Scholar- Between reality and fiction: Interpreting visal cltre in early Trkish repblican print media Golbarg Rekabtalaei, North Carolina State U-The reel 1940s: Cinema, poplar cltre and politics in post-world War II Iran Andrew Simon, Cornell U-Vlgarizing sonds: Tapes, taste, and the end of high cltre in modern Egypt Febe Armanios, Middlebry Col- Toch yor screen and be healed! : Reconsidering the history of televangelism in the Middle East 4826 Vlnerability and Exclsion: Examining Access to Services and Instittions for Syrian Refgees and Residents of Cairo s Ashwayyat Organizer: Colette Salemi Chair/Discssant: Denis J. Sllivan, Northeastern U Alice Verticelli, Northeastern U-Victims or ndeserving: Access to services for refgees in Trkey and the EU Colette Salemi, U Minnesota-System resiliency and the Jordan response platform for the Syria crisis Rasha Hassan, Cairo U-Informality and access to services among yoth of Cairo s ashwaiyyat 4852 Social and Environmental Histories of the Middle East in the Nineteenth Centry Organizer: Ranin Kazemi Chair/Discssant: Arash Khazeni, Pomona Col Noah Haidc-Dale, Centenary U, NJ- Water and society in the Glf littoral Camille Cole, Yale U-Social, economic, and environmental geographies of steamshipping in Sothern Iraq, Zozan Pehlivan, McGill U-Relief for whom? Peasants, crop failre, and politics in Ottoman Krdistan, Ranin Kazemi, San Diego State U-The Black Winter of : War, famine, and the political ecology of disasters in Qajar Iran Sabri Ates, Sothern Methodist U-Natre of rebellion: The 1880 Krdish Rebellion and the role of environmental factors 4886 Colonialism and Clinary Cltres in the Middle East and North Africa Organizers: Graham Cornwell and Anny Gal Discssant: Stacy E. Holden, Prde U Graham Cornwell, Georgetown U-Tea, sgar, and rral consmers in colonial Morocco Kelly Hammond, U Arkansas- They do drink tea, jst not like s : Imperial Japan, perceptions of tea drinkers in the Middle East and North Africa, and expanding global markets dring WWII Anny Gal, Georgetown U-Mother saces and civilizing processes: Writing cisine in Egypt and Morocco Sylvie Drmelat, Georgetown U- Art coscos : Chewing on the colonial experience MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 49

50 4895 Practices of Translation in the Ottoman and Safavid Empires Organizer: Ysf Unal Elif Bozgan, U Chicago-The Ottoman Trkish translation of history of Shah Abbas the Great Philip Bockholt, Freie U Berlin-Scholarly interest or enemy stdies? Ottoman Trkish translations of Arabic and Persian chronicles in the 16th to 18th centries Ercan Akyol, U Vienna-In search of originality: Hamsa of Nevizade Atayi Ysf Unal, Emory U-The translation of non-shi ite works in Safavid Iran 4896 Rethinking ISIS: War, Crisis, and Transformation Organizer: Feras Klenk Chair: Leila O. Hdson, U Arizona Discssant: Pal Amar, UC Santa Barbara Moses Adams, Colmbia U-Semiotics of the Islamic State: Interpreting narratives of ISIS western sympathizers Abe Jimenez, U Arizona-The transformation of IS Inc.: Restrctring and rebranding nder the war economy Feras Klenk, U Arizona-The state of edcation: Violence, bondary formation, and the territorial imaginary of ISIS Cheikh Isselmo, U Arizona-Jihad, seclarity, and eschatology: A new look into the discorse of ISIS 4939 Representations of Strggle and Horizons of Freedom Organizer: Maryam Griffin Chair/Discssant: Golnar Nikpor, U Wisconsin Madison Amanda Batarseh, UC Davis-History interrpted: Form in contemporary Palestinian literatre Arash Davari, Whitman Col-Ato- Empathy: Cltres of pragmatism and collective action in revoltionary Iran Maryam Griffin, U Washington, Bothell- Mobility and strggle: Palestinian artists imaginaries of freedom and retrn Yosef Baker, CSU Long Beach-Conjring old dreams to imagine new ftres; Oral histories of Iraqi refgees and exiles 1-3PM Tesday November Women and Contemporary Politics Chair: Fatemeh Hosseini, Georgetown U Silvana Toska, Davidson Col-Does Islam explain gender ineqality? Reassessing Islam and its impact on gender otcomes Lars Berger, U Leeds-A symbol of ineqality? Arab perceptions of the veil Victoria Gilbert, U Penn-Sister citizens: Women s identities and roles in Syria s conflict Hisae Nakanishi, Doshisha U-Emerging post-islamist discorse on women s rights in contemporary Iran Jesilyn Fast, UC Santa Barbara-Between the world and the state: Women s bodies as a battle grond in Morocco 4986 From Commerce to Economics in Islamic Thoght and Society Chair: Carter V. Findley, Ohio State U Ibrahim Elhodaiby, Colmbia U-Bifrcated partnerships: Debt and the rise of families and corporations in Egypt William Mrrell, Vanderbilt U-Translators in the diwan: Facilitating crosscltral trade in the Eastern Mediterranean in the crsader period Deniz Kilincogl, Middle East Technical U-Northern Cyprs Camps-The first treatise on political economy in the Middle East: Content and context Ian Jones, UC San Diego-An archaeological approach to the political economy of Ayybid Sothern Jordan Heiko Schss, Abdllah Gül U-The inflence of politics on the development of participation banking in Trkey 4987 Gendering and Governing the Body Chair: Michela Cerrti, EHESS Ecole des Hates Etdes en Sciences Sociales Diana P. Hatchett, U Kentcky- Bodybilding and bilding the body politic in Iraqi Krdistan Migel Fentes Carreno, UC Santa Barbara-The constrction of masclinity throgh HIV in Egypt Keren Zdafee, Tel Aviv U-The good, the bad, and the evil: Images of women in modern Egyptian caricatre Pascale N. Graham, McGill U-Lebanon: Codification of sexal labor and its detractors 4994 Schooling the Nation: The Politics of Edcation in Historical Perspective Chair: Sebastian Genther, U of Goettingen Johanna Peterson, UC San Diego-Policy in practice: Sbverting the colonial and the national in Lebanese girls schools dring the French mandate Ghada AlMadboh, Birzeit U-Edcation in Palestine: A good case to be made Christiana Parreira, Stanford U-Stdents into Iraqis: The politics of edcation in Ba athist Iraq Grace Wermenbol, U Oxford-The birth of the refgee problem in Israeli and Palestinian textbooks Archana Prakash, Stanford U-Epistemological convergences: Exploring hybridized edcation in Egypt, Disillsionment, Ambivalence, and Narrations of the Self Chair: Ghenwa Hayek, U Chicago Greg Bell, Princeton U-Mahjar doghboy: Mikhail Naimy and the canon of Great War literatre Niki Akhavan, Catholic U-On the homefront? Women s memoirs and the Iran- Iraq War Maya Aghasi, American U Sharjah- Historical fiction and the postcolonial, transnational condition Anwar Alsaad, American U of the Middle East-The hidden sarcasm in The Arabic Flash Fiction; A stdy of the Kwaiti short-short story Ghada Morad, UC Irvine-Civil war and the disembodied self: Hoda Barakat s Ahl Al-Hawa Page 50 MESA 2017 Preliminary Program

51 5015 Negotiating Memories and Legacies of Commnal Violence in WWI Anatolia Chair: John Walbridge, Indiana U Bloomington Mriel Mirak-Weissbach, Independent Scholar- Good Germans in the Armenian Genocide Leigh Stckey, U Michigan-Undercover politics: Exchange organizations and minority identity in Trkey Leonidas Karakatsanis, British Inst at Ankara-Displacement, memory and empathy: A comparative analysis of Greek-Trkish and Trkish-Armenian rapprochement Anosh Tamar Sni, UCLA-Palimpsests of violence: History, memory, and the rins of Anatolia 1-3PM Tesday November Militaries of the Middle East: Politics and Economics Chair: Hind Arrob, Fordham U Marwa Maziad, U Washington-Oscillating economic roles of Middle East militaries: Comparative inception stories of military bsiness in Trkey, Egypt and Israel Özgür Özkan, U Washington- Transformation of the Trkish civil-military relations in the 21st centry Loosineh Markarian, U Denver-The impact of privatization on the political atonomy of the militaries of Iran and Egypt Pete W. Moore, Case Western Reserve U-Jordan s longest war: Fiscal crisis and militarization Sean Brns, Northwestern U-Military revolt and repression in the Arab Spring 5027 Islamism, Liberalism, and Beyond in Trkish Politics Chair: Qinn Mecham, Brigham Yong U Aysenr Sonmez Kara, George Mason U-Welcoming Syrian refgees in Trkey: The role of religios discorse in the case of diyanet Nora Fisher Onar, Coastal Carolina U-Post-Factal politics and the illiberal trn: The case of Trkey Ysf Sarfati, Illinois State U-Challenging religios neoliberal governmentality nder the AKP Aykt Oztrk, Syracse U-The democratizing potential of Islamic social organizations: The case of HAK-IS in Trkey MESA 2017 Preliminary Program Page 51

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