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1 Middle East Stdies Association 46 th Annal Meeting November Preliminary Program Denver, in the Middle Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel 2012 will be MESA's first annal meeting in Denver. Why Denver, yo ask? MESA seldom meets in the middle of the contry and Denver is sort of in the middle. It is the largest metro area near the middle with the exception of Kansas City. Denver has 600,000 residents in its city limits, bt 2.5 million live in the metro area. Denver is easy to get to: 3 airlines se it as a hb Frontier, Sothwest and United. East coasters will be able to find direct flights and west coasters will have distance to travel on their side. Denver offers a clean, safe, and vibrant downtown with an impressive arts and cltre scene. World class msems, art galleries/districts, theater, msic, and splendid examples of Victorian architectre are some of the things that make Denver memorable. Or conference hotel also happens to enjoy a fablos location on Denver's 16th Street Mall a treelined,16-block pedestrian promenade, closed to traffic except for free shttle bses that rn p and down it. The 16th Street Mall has a good feel, and shopping, dining, pblic art, and walkable proximity to most attractions are jst a few of the perks it offers. Why Denver, yo ask, again? The Denver Sheraton Downtown Hotel has enogh sleeping rooms and meeting space to permit MESA to meet nder one roof. There is no need to se a convention center, which helps to hold down costs. Many cities don't offer that, bt Denver does. When the hotel was sold to its crrent owners and branded a Sheraton in 2008, it nderwent a $70 million renovation that was 16th Street Mall completed in November It looks marvelos! MESA 2012: 200+ sessions complemented by a for-day film festival and bstling book bazaar, all happening in the middle of the contry, sort of. See yo in November Cort Place Denver CO Ctoff Date October 22 Rates/Reservations $179 single/doble $199 triple $219 qad (pls room tax of 14.85%) ALERT: Hotel Booking Scams MESA has learned that a hosing company or wholesaler NOT affiliated with MESA has been contacting attendees to book hotel rooms for the 2012 annal meeting. These companies may actally pt people at risk for credit card and identity theft. We do not recommend doing bsiness with them. All hosing for the MESA 2012 annal meeting is handled directly by the Sheraton s Grop Reservations Department. A link to the Sheraton reservation page for MESA attendees is listed above. For frther information, please go to mesana.org, click on the annal meeting logo, and then on hotel.

2 To preregister for the MESA 2012 annal meeting, complete the registration form located on the back page of this program and retrn it along with payment to the MESA Secretariat. If paying by credit card save a stamp and register online via MESA s website. Pre-registration is recommended as onsite registration rates are higher. The preregistration deadline is October 15, Category Registration Preregistration Onsite fll/associate $110 $130 stdent member $70 $90 stdent non-member $90 $110 Other non-members $140 $160 Travel/Grond Transportation The Denver International Airport (DIA) is a hb for three airlines: United, Sothwest, and Frontier. The airport is mintes from the downtown. For grond transportation, MESA has teamed p with SperShttle. Rondtrip shared van service is $38 (or $22 each way). Taxi services on Yellow Cab will cost $51 each way, with a $3.50 gate fee from the airport. Reservations can be made by calling SperShttle at (grop code: MESA1) or going to The Scoop on 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. Panel Chairs Invited Volnteers are invited to chair non-preorganized panels at the MESA 2012 annal meeting. For a list of available panels, please visit MESA s website at mesana.org, click on the 2012 logo, and then on panel chairs. yor choices to Mark Lowder at mlowder@ . arizona.ed. Before yo volnteer, please note that MESA membership and annal meeting pre-registration are reqired of all meeting participants. Book Bazaar We are calling it a Book Bazaar, as this year's exhibit is located in an open area adjacent to registration and meeting rooms. 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 Denver for a three pls-day festival of books. The book bazaar will be open 3:30-7:30pm on Satrday (Nov. 17), 9-6 Snday and Monday (Nov ) and 8-12 on Tesday (Nov. 20). Visit MESA s website for a list of exhibitors. Yo don t have to rent space to exhibit at the MESA meeting. For $40 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 2012, please visit MESA s website or contact Shirley Nellson at snellson@ .arizona.ed or Roommates If yo are interested in sharing a room at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel dring the MESA annal meeting, please visit MESA s website at annal-meeting/roommates.html. MESA maintains a roommates wanted page on its website where those wanting to share rooms can find each other. Child Care MESA can help parents find a local provider and will reimbrse half of the cost of day 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 Shirley Nellson at snellson@ .arizona.ed or Page 2 MESA 2012 Preliminary Program

3 MESA Members Meeting Monday, November 19 v 1:00pm-2:30pm v Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, Room TBA The members meeting is an annal meeting of the membership open to all members and gests. Voting is restricted to fll and stdent MESA members. The meeting mainly consists of reports (see agenda at right). 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. 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 bsiness meeting. Resoltions can originate from MESA s Board or from the membership. For resoltions to be acted pon at the 2012 Members Meeting, they mst be in the hands of the MESA Secretariat by October 21, Instrctions for sbmitting resoltions can be fond in MESA s Bylaws which are posted on MESA s website at mesana.org. 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 Tools for Paper Presenters Upload Yor Paper to mymesa by Oct. 15 Please pload a copy of yor paper to the mymesa system so that yor co-panelists, especially the chair/discssant, will have access to it. 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-in to mymesa ( 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 yor 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 The best way to combat nerves is to be prepared. Remember, the people in the adience are there becase they want to hear what yo have to say. Prepare a smmary of yor paper for yor presentation, which shold last for no more than 20 mintes. Typically, doble-spaced typed pages will take 20 mintes to read. Practice and time yorself to make sre yor presentation will fit in the allotted time. Be as dynamic as yo can; a little hmor goes a long way. Shy away from monotone presentations that will pt the adience to sleep. A skilled presenter will achieve a balance between reading the text and making eye contact with the adience. Most of all, relax and enjoy yor moment. No Show Policy We nderstand that things come p at the last minte that prevent a participant from attending the meeting. As a cortesy to yor co-panelists, 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 no-show 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. MESA 2012 Preliminary Program Page 3

4 Photo by Jan Stürmann Presidential Biography Fred M. Donner University of Chicago P eople sometimes ask me how I became interested in the Middle East and Islamic history. After all, I m not from a Jewish family, and I m the child neither of a diplomat nor of an oil company exective these being the three most common factors that led yong Americans of my generation to develop a criosity abot the Middle East, sometimes copled with the experience of living or at least visiting the region in their yoth. I actally think that my discovery of the Middle East came abot becase I was the beneficiary of a liberal arts edcation. I began college intending to stdy chemistry and took a heavy dose of science and math corses dring my freshman and sophomore years. Bt fortnately I was also reqired to take corses in other areas beyond msic, in which I was already interested: history, the social sciences, and the arts. By chance, more or less, I enrolled in corses in ancient art and then in medieval art, which nexpectedly broght an awareness of, and kindled in me a fascination with, the cltre and history of the ancient and Byzantine Near East. At the same time, I was finding my stdies of science and math less and less satisfying. Most important of all, I asked myself: What do I really want to do, day by day, in my life? I decided that I did not want to spend my life in a lab somewhere, bt rather in a line of work that allowed some scope for travel, and for the se of foreign langages, as I had enjoyed stdying Latin and French in high school. The stdy of the Middle East whether ancient, medieval, or modern obviosly met these reqirements; and I have never for a minte regretted my decision. Page 4 MESA 2012 Preliminary Program My Middle Eastern interests nderwent a long, slow evoltion following my first enthsiasms of the mid-1960s. In my ndergradate years, I was torn between the stdy of the ancient Near East and the medieval Islamic world; bt by the time I had finished my BA, I had decided to prse gradate work in medieval Islamic history, particlarly social history, which at the time was jst beginning to be explored by Islamic historians. Dring a year of stdy at the University of Erlangen, in Germany, I developed an appreciation of the power and seflness of strong philological training bt also realized that the qestions I was most deeply interested in were historical ones, not philological ones. (In recent years, however, I have become aware that in my own work, it is historical argments that have strong philological gronding that is, in which the historical phenomena I want to explain are visible in words and their sage in texts of the time that always strike me as most compelling. So that early philological training obviosly had a deep impact.) As I mlled over the large qestion of what made the historical evoltion of Near Eastern societies distinctive, or at least different from that of Erope, it dawned on me that one likely factor may have been the presence in the Near East from remote antiqity almost to the present of pastoral nomadic grops. Unlike in Erope, where pastoral nomads were rarely fond, in the Near/Middle East, varios nomadic peoples had sstained, reglar contact with settled poplations and developed a complex array of social, economic, political, and lingistic relations with them. My hnch was that this pastoral nomadic element had been crcial in helping shape the development of Middle Eastern societies and civilizations. My dissertation, and the first book that grew ot of it (The Early Islamic Conqests, 1981), focsed particlarly on the role of pastoral nomadic grops in the early Islamic expansion process and, in particlar, their relationship to the nascent Islamic state. I sbmitted my conqests book to the pblisher jst as the first wave of revisionist scholarship on early Islamic history appeared enshrined especially in John Wansbrogh s Qr anic Stdies and Patricia Crone s and Michael Cook s Hagarism (both 1977). These works challenged fndamentally the reliability of the traditional narrative sorces, on which my own work and that of most others in the field had hitherto been based. It was too late to try to rewrite my book on a different basis, bt the qestion of the sorces and their reliability was obviosly one that I had to confront more ambitiosly before I cold ndertake frther historical work on the early Islamic period. On reflection, it seemed to me that the traditional sorces were indeed more complex and less easily tapped for historical facts than had sally been assmed, as scholars like Wansbrogh, Cook, and Crone were saying, bt it did not seem to me that they were so compro- Presidential Address Snday, November 18 7:00pm Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

5 mised that they shold be completely discarded as evidence. Working ot my argments, however, took a long time almost two decades and the reslts of my efforts only appeared in print in my book Narratives of Islamic Origins: the beginnings of Islamic historical writing (1998). (This long period of gestation, incidentally, is evidence in favor of the tenre system at American niversities, now being called into qestion by some; withot the secrity of tenre, I wold probably never have been able to prodce this book.) A key trning-point in my thinking came arond 1988, when it dawned on me that the earliest Islamic commnity was not, in fact, concerned with history that is, it did not try to legitimize itself in historical terms bt rather set itself apart throgh its focs on piety and righteos behavior. This, of corse, then raised the qestion of how and when a properly historical otlook did, in fact, become rooted in the Mslim commnity, for as is well known, Islamic civilization developed a powerfl historical origins narrative to legitimize itself. It was, indeed, the very power of Islam s historical view of its own origins that had made it difficlt for me, and has made it difficlt for many others, to perceive the actal character of the earliest movement. Wrestling with the qestion of the varios sorces for Islam s beginnings also led me to look more and more closely at the Qr an as a possible sorce, and to wonder jst what kind of movement earliest Islam actally had been. These reflections opened the way for the most recent phase of my work, which has been devoted to exploring the ideological and commnal concepts that seem to have motivated the earliest Mslims. I was invited to prepare, for a workshop on Concepts of Commnal Identity in Late Antiqity and Early Islam in 1994, a paper on concepts of commnal identity in the earliest Islamic commnity. Having become by this time convinced, first, that the traditional narrative sorces were likely to give a portrayal of the earliest commnity that was distorted in as yet ndetected ways, and second, that the Qr an text was mostly very early, it made sense to try to address the qestion of the earliest commnity s self-conception as a commnity mainly on the basis of what the Qr an said abot the matter. When I did so, I discovered that some verses in the Qr an implied that the original commnity may have inclded any monotheist who was sfficiently righteos, inclding pios Christians or Jews; hints from other sorces sggested that Islam, as a religios confession distinct from other monotheisms (in particlar, from Christianity and Jdaism) may have emerged from this original Believers movement only toward the end of the first/seventh centry. These ideas, which are still being debated by colleages, were first pt forward in the article prepared for the workshop, From Believers to Mslims (eventally pblished in 2001), and formed the nderpinning of my most recent book, Mhammad and the Believers: at the origins of Islam (2010). The contining ncertainty abot the actal natre and evoltion of the earliest commnity of Believers/Mslims makes clear that reliance on actal docments from the first centry AH, scarce and difficlt to se thogh they may be, will be of crcial importance to clarifying sch qestions. It is encoraging to see that a considerable nmber of today s yonger scholars are devoting renewed attention to sch things as papyri, inscriptions, coins, and other contemporary artifacts of the first/seventh centry, a trend I hope will contine. At the otset of this reflection on the evoltion of my career, I noted that it can in a sense be seen as the prodct of a liberal arts edcation, in which the insistence on becoming familiar with a wide variety of disciplines can sometimes lead the stdent in totally nexpected directions as in my case. Bt before closing I wold also like to nderscore the importance in the process of important teachers, who for me as for most of s, I sspect are often the real magnets that attract s to certain fields, or are the sorces of inspiration that fire s to prse something. Wold I have discovered Middle Eastern stdies withot the wise and warm mentorship of Professor John Marks ( ), who inspired in me a fascination with the ancient Near East, served as my model for what a sane niversity professor shold be, and became a good friend? Or withot the fascinating lectres of a very different Princeton Professor, the thoroghly Germanic Krt Weitzmann ( ), then at the pinnacle of his career as one of the world s greatest historians of Byzantine art? Dring my stdies at Erlangen, I profited not only from the rigoros philological training there bt also from the enthsiastic teaching and iconoclastic otlook of Günter Lüling, whose corses on the Qr an first made clear to me how far that text was from being an open book. As a gradate stdent, I was blessed to have Professors Roy Mottahedeh and Avrom Udovitch to gide me and stimlate my thinking abot social history, Islamic law, and many other things. My scholarly odyssey wold have been very different or might not have started at all withot their deep learning, willingness to qestion established points of view, and encoragement. In singling ot these exemplary teachers, of corse, I slight scores of others who also contribted in fndamental ways to my training. The fact is that all of s in the academy, in Middle Eastern stdies no less than in other fields, are parts of a vast cmlative enterprise involving thosands of individal interactions and the intergenerational transfer of slowly acqired methods and trths, so that or collective nderstanding of or sbject gradally grows in sophistication and accracy. We perpetate this process each time we teach a class, make comments on a paper, give a lectre, or advise a stdent. Being part of this process has, for me, been an exhilarating ride and I will be content if I can provide for my stdents and colleages even a fraction of the gidance, spport, and intellectal stimlation I have been fortnate enogh to have received from my teachers and mentors over the years. MESA 2012 Preliminary Program Page 5

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7 wal-monitor Monday, 11/19 Reception, 7:30-9:30pm, Plaza Ballroom E (Plaza-C) waata American Association of Teachers of Arabic Satrday, 11/17 Exective Board Meeting, 9am- 12nn, Plaza Cort 2 (Plaza-C) 50th Anniversary Panel, 1-2:40pm, Plaza Ballroom A (Plaza-C) Bsiness Meeting, 2:40-3pm, Plaza Ballroom A (Plaza-C) 50th Anniversary Reception & Poster Session, 3-4:30pm, Plaza Ballroom A (Plaza-C) waatt American Association of Teachers of Trkic Langages Satrday, 11/17 Bsiness Meeting, 10-11pm, Tower Cort C (Tower) Meetings in Conjnction waiys American Institte for Yemeni Stdies Satrday, 11/17 Board Meeting, 3-5pm, Governor's Sqare 10 (Plaza-C) General Meeting, 7-9pm, Plaza Cort 4 (Plaza-C) wamideast America-Mideast Edcational & Training Services Satrday, 11/17 Edcation Abroad Academic Consortim Bsiness Meeting, 5-6:30pm, Governors Sqare 9 (Plaza-C) Snday, 11/18 Arabic Advisory Board Meeting, 7-8:30am, Director's Row G (Plaza-L) wauc American University in Cairo Monday, 11/19 Reception, 7-9pm, Plaza Ballroom D (Plaza-C) wamea Association for Middle East Anthropologists Satrday, 11/17 Bsiness Meeting, 1-3pm, Directors Row I (Plaza-L) wamews Association for Middle East Women s Stdies Satrday, 11/17 Board Meeting, 3:45-4:45pm, Plaza Cort 1 (Plaza-C) Bsiness Meeting, 7-7:30pm, Governors Sqare 9 (Plaza-C) Dinner, 7:45-9:30pm, Governors Sqare 10 (Plaza-C) Monday, 11/19 JMEWS Editorial Board Meeting, 2:30-4pm, Plaza Cort 1 (Plaza-C) wamca Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran and Trkey Monday, 11/19 Members Meeting, 7-9pm, Plaza Cort 1 (Plaza-C) waias American Institte of Afghanistan Stdies Snday, 11/18 Board Meeting, 2-4pm, Plaza Cort 4 (Plaza-C) waiirs American Institte of Iranian Stdies Satrday, 11/17 Board Meeting, 3-5pm, Plaza Cort 6 (Plaza-C) waims American Institte for Maghrib Stdies Satrday, 11/17 Board Meeting, 9am-1pm, Governor's Sqare 10 (Plaza-C) Bsiness Meeting, 2-4, Director's Row J (Plaza-L) waasa Arab American Stdies Association Satrday, 11/17 Bsiness Meeting, 11am-1pm, Plaza Cort 4 (Plaza-C) wagaps Association for Glf and Arabian Peninsla Stdies Satrday, 11/17 Board Meeting, 11am-1pm, Directors Row F (Plaza-L) Bsiness Meeting, 2-4pm, Tower Cort B (Tower) wais Association for Israel Stdies Satrday, 11/17 Reception, 7:30-9pm, Tower Cort A (Tower) wasps Association for the Stdy of Persianate Societies Satrday, 11/17 Board Meeting, 2-3pm, Director's Row G (Plaza-L) Bsiness Meeting, 3-4pm, Governor's Sqare 9 (Plaza-C) Snday, 11/18 Reception, 8:30-10:30pm, Governors Sqare 11 (Plaza-C) wcasa Center for Arabic Stdy Abroad Satrday, 11/17 Governing Board Meeting, 7:30-10:30pm, Director's Row F (Plaza-L) Snday, 11/18 Consortim Lncheon, 12-1:30pm, Maggiano s Little Italy Restarant (Downtown) th Street, Denver CO MESA 2012 Preliminary Program Page 7

8 wewic Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cltres Monday, 11/19 Editors Training Meeting, 8:30am- 2:30pm, Director's Row G (Plaza-L) wijmes International Jornal of Middle East Stdies Monday, 11/19 Editorial Board Meeting, 4-5pm, Plaza Cort 5 (Plaza-C) wisis International Society for Iranian Stdies Satrday, 11/17 Board Meeting, 4-6pm, Director s Row F (Plaza-L) General Meeting, 6:30-8pm, Plaza Cort 3 (Plaza-C) Reception, 8:30-10:30pm, Governor s Sqare 10 (Plaza-C) jmews wjmews-jornal of Middle East Women s Stdies Monday, 11/19 Editorial Board Meeting, 2:30-4pm, Plaza Cort 1 (Plaza-C) wksa-krdish Stdies Association Satrday, 11/17 Membership Meeting, 2-4pm, Plaza Cort 4 (Plaza-C) wmecpd Middle East Center & Program Directors Snday, 11/18 annal meeting, 9-11am, Governors Sqare 16 (Plaza-C) wmem Middle East Medievalists Satrday, 11/17 Board Meeting, 3-4pm, Tower Cort A (Tower) Bsiness Meeting, 4-5pm, Tower Cort C (Tower) MEOC Middle East Otreach Concil Snday, 11/18 General Meeting, 8-10am, Plaza Cort 2 (Plaza-C) Nts & Bolts Workshop for Otreach Coordinators, 10:30am- 12:30pm, Plaza Cort 3 (Plaza-C) Board Meeting, 4-6pm, Governor s Sqare 9 (Plaza-C) wmesa Middle East Stdies Association Satrday, 11/17 CUMES meeting, 3-5pm, Plaza Cort 8 (Plaza-C) Snday, 11/18 Committee on Academic Freedom Meeting, 1-3pm, Directors Row F (Plaza-L) Monday, 11/19 Affiliate Officers Meeting, 7-8:30am, Governors Sqare 9 (Plaza-C) wparc Palestinian American Research Center Satrday, 11/17 Board Meeting, 11am-3pm, Tower Cort D (Tower) Gathering, 3:30-5pm, Grand Foyer (Tower) wsas Society for Armenian Stdies Satrday, 11/17 Exective Concil Meeting, 2-4pm, Plaza Cort 2 (Plaza-C) Membership Meeting, 4:30-6:30pm, Plaza Cort 4 (Plaza-C) wsociology of Islam Snday, 11/18 Reception, 6-7pm, Plaza Cort 1 (Plaza-C) wssa Syrian Stdies Association Satrday, 11/17 Board Meeting, 2-3pm, Plaza Cort 1 (Plaza-C) Bsiness Meeting/Panel Discssion: Perspectives on the Syrian Uprising, 3:30-5:30pm, Plaza Cort 3 (Plaza-C) wtaarii The American Academic Research Institte in Iraq Satrday, 11/17 Board Meeting, 1-3pm, Plaza Cort 5 (Plaza-C) Monday, 11/19 Reception, 7-9pm, Governor s Sqare 9 (Plaza-C) wtsa Trkish Stdies Association Satrday, 11/17 Board Meeting, 12:30-2:30pm, Plaza Cort 6 (Plaza-C) Reception, 7-8pm, Grand Foyer (Tower) Bsiness Meeting, 8-10pm, Tower Cort C (Tower) wwestern Consortim of Middle East Centers Snday, 11/18 Meeting, 11am-1pm, Plaza Cort 1 (Plaza-C) Page 8 MESA 2012 Preliminary Program

9 MESA 12 FilmFest Preview For 2012, here is a small sample of what the committee has chosen to screen to date: photo cortesy Cinema Gild Al-Halqa: In the Storyteller s Circle The age-old world tradition of storytelling is still practiced in Morocco. Follow Zoheir and his father (Abderahim El Maqori) as he prepares for his debt, not only keeping p the tradition, bt also making the craft relevant to a new generation. Jack Shaheen to be 12 FilmFest Gest Speaker Join MESA FilmFest in welcoming Jack G. Shaheen to this year s fn in Denver. Dr. Shaheen will host a film screening, a discssion, and introdce MESA attendees to the exciting visal exhibit, A is for Arab: Stereotypes in U.S. Poplar Cltre. Keep checking the FilmFest page for details and schedle of events ( Shaheen is crrently a Distingished Visiting Scholar at New York University s Asian/Pacific/American Institte and The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Stdies. He is the recipient of two Flbright teaching awards, the University of Pennsylvania s Janet Lee Stevens Award, the American Arab Anti- Discrimination Committee s Lifetime Achievement Award, the Archangel Michael award [from the Greek Orthodox chrch], and the Pancho Be Award. His extensive collection of visal material provides valable docmentation of the representations of Arabs and Mslims in U.S. poplar cltre and mass media from the late 19 th to the 21 st centry. A is for Arab: Stereotypes in U.S. Poplar Cltre photo cortesy of NYU photo cortesy of Seventh Art Prodctions The Boy Mir: Ten Years in Afghanistan If yo remember the film, The Boy Who Plays on the Bddhas of Bamiyan, yo won t want to miss this. Filmmaker Phil Grabsky followed Mir from age 8 to 18. The film covers the highs and lows of events personally and nationally. photo cortesy of Icars Films Fragments of a Revoltion The film takes s to the smmer of 2009 and the events leading p to the Green Movement and the months that followed that smmer s tragic otcomes for so many in Iran. The events nfold throgh the eyes and words of a few exiled and local Iranians as they trade YoTbe videos, Skype calls, and s. Viewers become part of this very secret and intimate process. photo cortesy of NYU photo cortesy of California Newsreel Manscripts of Timbkt Featring commentary by African scholars, rich reenactments and an original msical score, this docmentary critiqes the limited view of Timbkt as any distant or remote place. The film also highlights the plight of tens of thosands of manscripts that need care and hosing. The discssion is even more poignant now given the events of this smmer. The A is for Arab exhibit will be located in the lobby entrance to the MESA FilmFest. The exhibit and Dr. Shaheen s attendance at MESA FilmFest is sponsored by: The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Stdies and the Asian/Pacific/American Institte at New York University. For a short video on the backgrond of the collection, visit: Film Sponsors Still Needed See yor name (or logo) in lights! Spport great film offerings at MESA FilmFest. Yo may sponsor a particlar film, or simply show fiscal spport and enjoy the satisfaction of contribting to one of MESA s most poplar activities. Contact: Nadia Hlibka, nhlibka@ .arizona.ed for information. Watch for the Film Schedle The schedle and list of accepted films will be posted on the website by mid-september: MESA 2012 Preliminary Program Page 9

10 Program 5:30-7:30PM Satrday November 17 Unstable Objects: Shifting Genealogies of Art, Artists, and Images in the Middle East Organized by Nancy Um Chair/Discssant: Heghnar Watenpagh, UC Davis Carel Bertram, San Francisco State U Thawing the Frozen Images of Ottoman Anatolia: Armenian Pilgrimages of Retrn David Simonowitz, Pepperdine U Red and Black Rivers Redx?: The Uprooting of an Iraqi Family of Calligraphers and the (Gendered) Politics of Cltral Spaces Nancy Um, Binghamton U The So-Called Indian Wedding Chair : Unresolved Narratives of Dispersal in a Cosmopolitan Woodworking Tradition Hala Aji, Binghamton U Arabic Books in Flx: The Early Pblications of The American Syria Mission ( ) Remembering the First World War in the Middle East Organized by Pheroze Unwalla SPECIAL SESSION The Emergence of New Media Spported by Al-Monitor Chair: Andrew Parasiliti, Al-Monitor Sophie Cladet, Al-Monitor Barbara Slavin, Al-Monitor Sltan Alqassemi, Barjeel Art Fondation Jean Aziz, Jornalist and Writer (based in Lebanon) Lara Rozen, Al-Monitor This special session will address how new media is affecting the politics and media of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as Western coverage of the region. The panelists will examine the relative inflence of traditional (television and print) media and e-media, and consider whether there is a new synergy between regional and international media and what this all means for political discorse. Chair/Discssant: Benjamin Carr Fortna, SOAS, U London Yigit Akin, Col of Charleston Damn Yo, Enver Pasha! : Poplar Perceptions and Remembrance of War and Death in the Ottoman Empire Pheroze Unwalla, SOAS, U London Trimph from Trama, Neglect to Adlation: Selective Remembrance of the First World War in Modern Trkey Roberto Mazza, Western Illinois U Once Upon a War: Memories of World War One in Palestine James L. Gelvin, UCLA Collective Memory and Nationalist Narrative: On the Possibility of Reconting a Syrian Experience of the First World War Looking Beyond National Borders and Cltral Bondaries: Transnational Connections and the Reform of Islamic Edcation, Organized by Hilary Kalmbach Chair: Nadya Sbaiti, Smith Col Discssant: Michael Laffan, Princeton U Archana Prakash, U Illinois Urbana Champaign Prodcing Usefl Experts: The Egyptian Stdent Missions to France, Hilary Kalmbach, U Oxford The Transnational Reach of Cairo s Dar al- Ulm, Mike Farqhar, London School of Economics and Political Science Transnational Connections and Early Sadi Edcational Reform: The Ma had Ilmi Sa di in 1920s Mecca Miriam Yones, U Basel Changing Transnational Patterns and Connections within the Shi ite Hawzas of Najaf in the Early 20th Centry The Transformation of the Palestinian Peasantry: Capitalism, Reform, and Resistance in the Late Ottoman and British Mandate Eras Organized by Charles Anderson Chair/Discssant: Michael Gasper, Occidental Col Erik Freas, Borogh of Manhattan Commnity Col CUNY Ottoman Reform, Islam and Palestine s Peasantry Charles Anderson, New York U British Rle and the Decomposition of the Palestinian Peasantry Rana Barakat, Birzeit U Where the Rral and the Urban Meet: Politics of Peasant Resistance nder British Rle in Palestine Mnir K. Fakher Eldin, Birzeit U The Politics of Landholding in British-Rled Palestine, : Land Reform and the Impoverishment of a Rral Society Page 10 MESA 2012 Preliminary Program

11 5:30-7:30PM Satrday November 17 Qiyan Cortesans and Concbines: Their Impact on Early Islamic Society Organized by Kathryn Hain Middle East Medievalists Chair: Kathryn Hain, U Utah Discssant: Matthew S. Gordon, Miami U Lisa Nielson, Case Western Reserve U Msic and the Figre of the Qiyan in the Response to a Qestion Concerning Msic by Al-Ajrri (d. 970) and the Censre of Instrments of Diversion by Ibn Abi l Dnya (d. 894) Pernilla Myrne, U Gothenbrg, Sweden Qiyan: Cltral Achievements and Self-Representation Majied Robinson, Edinbrgh U The Concbine in Statistical Context: A Prosopographical Analysis of the Arab Genealogical Tradition Nerina Rstomji, St. John s U Are Horis Heavenly Concbines? Additional Content and Alternative Assessment: Widening Horizons in the Arabic Langage Classroom Organized by Peter Glanville Spported by University of Maryland Arabic Flagship Chair/Discssant: Valerie Anishchenkova, U Maryland Kevin Brnham, Appalachian State U Phonetic Training for Learners of Arabic Smmer Loomis, U Texas Astin Formative Feedback and Informal Assessment: Techniqes to Encorage Better Speaking Peter Glanville, U Maryland College Park Using a Learner Record in a Mixed- Level Class Laila Familiar, U Texas Astin Teaching Cltre in the Arabic Classroom Nesrine Basheer, U Maryland College Park The Lingistic Dimension of Cltral Competence: Expanding the Domain of Spoken Arabic Rondtable Re-Interpreting Islam and Nationalism in Iran Organized by Eric Hooglnd Spported by Center for Middle Eastern Stdies Lnd University Chairs: Reza Zia-Ebrahimi, Sheffield Hallam U and Eric Hooglnd, Lnd U Reza Arjmand, Lnd U Kevan Harris, Princeton U Political and Ideological Reform in the Modern Shi i Mslim World Organized by Zackery Heern Chair/Discssant: Michaelle L. Browers, Wake Forest U Zackery Heern, Mrray State U Usli Shi ism and the Eighteenth Centry Islamic Reformation Robert J. Riggs, U Bridgeport Reconceptalizing the Fondation of Lebanese and Iraqi Shi i Political Reformism: Mhammed Rida Al- Mzaffar s Mntada Al-Nashr Mina Yazdani, Eastern Kentcky U The Liminal Identity of the Reformist Theologian Sayyid Asad Allah Kharaghani Arshavez Mozafari, U Toronto Khomeini s Kashf Al-Asrar and Satan s Conceptal Transcendence Compromise, Confrontation or Transformation?: Implications of the Rise of Islamist Political Power Organized by Bjorn Olav Utvik Chair: Dag Tastad, U Oslo Kai E. Kverme, U Oslo Maronite Politics, Islamism and the Chrch: Conflicting Views on the Ftre of Lebanon Pinar Tank, Peace Research Institte Oslo The AKP and Trkey s Krds: No Krdish Spring in Sight? Bjorn Olav Utvik, U Oslo The Ikhwanisation of the Salafis: Piety in the Revoltionary Politics of Egypt Albrecht Hofheinz, U Oslo Why Do Yo Hate Us? : Social Media and the Mslim Brotherhood Tnisia s Forgotten Literary Avant- Garde Organized by Doja Mamelok Kimberly Katz, Towson U Urban Space and Anti-Colonialism in the Maqamat of Tnisian Salih Swaysi Al-Qayrawani Doja Mamelok, U Tennessee Ali D aji and Al- Alam Al-Adabi: A Voice of the Tnisian Avant-Garde nder Colonial Rle Lotfi Ben Rejeb, U Ottawa Between Two Worlds : Mahmod Aslan and the Bondaries of Identity in Colonial Tnisia Lamia Ben Yossef Zayzafoon, U Alabama Birmingham Portrait of Tnisian Avant-Garde Writers and Artists in Mahmod Beyram Attonsi s Satirical Newspaper Al Shabab (29 October March 1937) Araceli Hernandez-Laroche, U Soth Carolina Upstate Albert Memmi s Legacy in Tnisia and beyond the Mediterranean World Telephony and Trkish Modernization: Social History of Telephone since the Ottoman Era Organized by Brce Celik Spported by TUBITAK Brce Celik, Bahcesehir U New Perspectives on Social History of Trkey: What Do Technology Stdies Offer? Kaya Ozkaracalar, Bahcesehir U Telephony and Modernity, the Case of Trkey: Problems, Findings, Directions Mahmt Cinar, Bahcesehir U Reading Manscripts: The Telephone, Modernity and Progress in Discorses Derya Tarbck, Bahcesehir U Reflections on Oral History: The Experiences of the Ownership and Non- Ownership of the Telephone in Istanbl and Ankara Glengl Altintas, Bahcesehir U Reflections of Oral History: The Experiences of the Ownership and Non- Ownership of the Telephone in Kayseri and Diyarbakir MESA 2012 Preliminary Program Page 11

12 5:30-7:30PM Satrday November 17 Memory and Gender: Representations Organized by Sandra G. Carter Sandra G. Carter, U Hoston Victoria The Video "Tihya", Raissa Fatima Tabaamrante, and New Technologies of Memory Roberta Micallef, Boston U A Gendered Examination of Armenian Post-Memoirs Sylvia W. Önder, Georgetown U Contemporary Trkish Poplar Poetry and the Emotions of Memorialization Emine Hosogl Dogan, U Utah & Istanbl Sehir U Profiles of Late Ottoman Women Rondtable Ot of the Classroom and into the Field: Designing Stdy Abroad Programs to the Glf States Organized by Sharon Nagy Chair: Sharon Nagy, DePal U Larry Brown, Oman Center for International Learning States, Markets, Media, and the Environment Chair: Bassam Yosif, Indiana State U Shima Bozorgi, Monterey, California Iran in the Era of Environmental Movements Annemie Vermaelen, Ghent U The Uneasiness of Local Knowledge: Eco- Political Interventions in Wadi Araba, Jordan Sophia Stamatopolo-Robbins, Colmbia U Seepage and Statecraft: Contors of Polltion in Post-Oslo Palestine Nrcan Atalan-Helicke, Skidmore Col Changing Agricltral Environments: Markets, Small Farmers and the Conservation of Traditional Wheat in Trkey Katharina Lenner, Free U Berlin The Uneasiness of Local Knowledge: Eco- Political Interventions in Wadi Araba, Jordan Msic and Performance Chair: Carmen M.K. Gitre, Seattle U Ida Meftahi, U Toronto The Bio- Political Economy of Cabaret Dancing in Twentieth-Centry Iran Mareen Jackson, Harvard U The Msic Marketplace of a Mediterranean Port Hoda Abadi, Georgia State U Mediated Resistance: Performing Protests in Morocco Katherine Hennessey, American Institte for Yemeni Stdies Performing Freedom, Personifying Dissent: Theater on the Arabian Peninsla in the Wake of the Arab Spring Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, INALCO- Sorbonne Paris Cité Shikhat?: The Right to Perform with Dignity Armenians in the Modern World Serife Erogl Memis, Hacettepe U Aleppine Armenians dring the Last Decades of the Nineteenth and the First Qarter of the Twentieth Centries Doris Melkonian, UCLA Genocide Narratives that Challenge Female Gender Norms Arda Melkonian, UCLA Types of Intervention dring the Armenian Genocide Thematic Conversation Teaching the Arab Uprisings Organized by Ann Witlski Session Leader: Ann Witlski, U Florida Lara Dotson-Renta, Qinnipiac U Smayya Ahmed, UNC Chapel Hill Heidi Morrison, U Wisconsin La Crosse Elisheva Cohen, Portland State U Page 12 MESA 2012 Preliminary Program

13 8:30-10:30AM Snday November 18 TODAY S AFFILIATED MEETINGS 7-8:30am AMIDEAST Arabic Advisory Board Meeting Directors Row G (Plaza-L) 8-10am MEOC General Meeting Plaza Cort 2 (Plaza-C) 9-11am Middle East Center & Program Directors Meeting Governors Sqare 16 (Plaza-C) 10:30am-12:30pm MEOC Nts & Bolts Workshop for Otreach Coordinators Plaza Cort 3 (Plaza-C) 11am-1pm Western Consortim of Middle East Centers Meeting Plaza Cort 1 (Plaza-C) 12nn-1:30pm CASA Consortim Lncheon Maggiano s Little Italy Restarant (Downtown) th Street 1-3pm MESA's Committee on Academic Freedom Meeting Plaza Cort 2 (Plaza-C) 4-6pm MEOC Board Meeting Governors Sqare 9 (Plaza-C) 8:30-10pm ASPS Reception Governors Sqare 11 (Plaza-C) Rondtable Martin B. Dickson and His Legacy after Twenty Years Organized by Ilker Evrim Binbas Ilker Evrim Binbas, Royal Holloway, U London Cornell Hgh Fleischer, U Chicago Jdith Pfeiffer, U Oxford Kathryn Babayan, U Michigan Kaya Sahin, Indiana U Vera Basch Moreen, Independent Scholar Iran s Changing Geopolitical Debate: An Inside-Ot Narrative Organized by Mohammad Homayonvash Chair: Homan Sadri, U Central Florida Discssant: Mohiaddin Mesbahi, Florida International U Mohammad Homayonvash, Florida International U and Reza Sanati, Florida International U From Neither East or West to the Far East: The Intersection of Iran s Energy Export Strategy with Its Nclear Indstry Ozm Yesiltas, Florida International U The Role of Ethnic Movements in the Formation of a Democratic Iran Arash Reisinezhad, Florida International U Islam and Social Movement: Religios Opportnities and Constraints Naisy Sardy, Florida International U Iran and the Other America: The Forgotten Narrative and Roads Not Taken Nima Baghdadi, Florida International U State as a Unitary Actor?: Iran Shaping an Anomaly Decentering Mscat: Makran, Zanzibar and the Omani Empire in the Indian Ocean, c Organized by Fahad A. Bishara Association for Glf & Arabian Peninsla Stdies Chair: J. E. Peterson, Tcson, Arizona Discssant: Mandana E. Limbert, City U New York Fahad A. Bishara, Harvard U/Col of William and Mary Paper Rotes: Inscribing Law and Commerce across the 19th-Centry Indian Ocean Thomas F. McDow, Ohio State U Forging New Passages: African Mobility to Arabia and Beyond, Ameem Ltfi, Dke U Sea, Soldiers and Sovereignty: Reading Sovereignty in the Indian Ocean throgh Baloch Mercenaries Hafeez Jamali, U Texas Astin Shorelines of Memory, Sediments of History: Britain, Oman, and the Shifting Geographies of Trade in the Mekran Coast Emotions and Cltre: Anxiety, Love, and Desire in the Ottoman Empire Organized by Oscar Agirre Mandjano Chair/Discssant: Walter G. Andrews, U Washington Oscar Agirre Mandjano, U Washington The Emotions behind Conqest and Conversion: The Poetic Framework for Epic Frontier Narratives Zeynep Seviner, U Washington Objects that Talk: Desire, Envy and Commodities as Literary Devices in Mai ve Siyah Anat Goldman, U Washington Anxiety and Identity Formation in 19th Centry Orientalist Paintings Elizabeth Nolte, U Washington Historical Anxiety and Literary Representations of the Ottoman Empire Beaty in Persian Poetry: Personal, Social, and Political Responses Organized by Dylan Oehler-Stricklin Chair/Discssant: Ahmet T. Karamstafa, Washington U St. Lois Fatemeh Keshavarz, Washington U St. Lois Men, Women, and God: Sa di s Vision of Love and Beaty in His Ghazals and the Glistan Pal E. Losensky, Indiana U From the Efflgence of Silences : Emanation, Creativity, and Aesthetics in the Poetry of Sa'eb Tabrizi Matthew Thomas Miller, Washington U St. Lois Aesthetic Homonormativity in Medieval Persian Sfism: A Cltral Poetics of Sfi Homoeroticism in the Biographical Traditions of Fakhr Al-Din Eraqi Dylan Oehler-Stricklin, Washington U St. Lois Between Beaty and Pain: Natre as a Medim of Self Realization in the Poetry of Forgh Farrokhzad MESA 2012 Preliminary Program Page 13

14 8:30-10:30AM Snday November 18 Oil, Islam and Instittions: Rethinking the Cases and Conseqences of Women s Political Empowerment in the MENA Organized by Lindsay J. Benstead Chair: Ellen Lst, Yale U Discssants: Anya Vodopyanov, Harvard U and Val Moghadam, Northeastern U Lindsay J. Benstead, Portland State U Voting the Platform or Providing Wasta: Exploring the Impact of Instittional Setting on Voter Preferences for Female Candidates in the Maghreb Bozena Welborne, U Nevada Reno Secrity in Nmbers: Exploring the Relationship between Women s Political Representation and Personal Secrity in the Middle East and North Africa Dawn Nowacki, Linfield Col Explaining Qota Types for Women s Representation in Mslim Majority States Sarah Bsh, Temple U and Eleanor Gao, U Michigan Women s Representation in Jordan: How Qotas Work in an Athoritarian Setting Ideology, Political Cltre and Athoritarianism in Ba`thist Iraq and Syria Organized by Joseph Sassoon Chair/Discssant: Peter Slglett, National U Singapore Joseph Sassoon, Georgetown U Ideology and Cltre in Ba`thist Iraq Bassam Haddad, George Mason U The Radicalization and Rralization of the Ba`th Party Fanar Haddad, National U of Singapore From beyond the Grave: The Legacy of the Ba ath between Ideology and Power Modern Arab Intellectals Chair: Asaad Al-Saleh, U Utah Yoav Di-Capa, U Texas Astin The Great Intellectal Odyssey of Hsayn Mrwwa Nadav Samin, Princeton U The Oracle of Al-Wrd: Hamad Al-Jasir s Genealogical Correspondences, Page 14 MESA 2012 Preliminary Program Hoda El Shakry, New York U The Poetic Landscape of Islamic Thoght: Creation and Existence in the Literary World of Mahmd Al-Mas adi Lke Leafgren, Harvard U Zaidan s Historical Novels: Creating Commnity Ot of Conflict Athority and Poplar Contention in North Africa Chair: Hamid Rezai, Colmbia U Brock Ctler, Radford U Environmental Affairs: Disaster and the Border in Nineteenth Centry Algeria Abdllah Al-Arian, Wayne State U Back to the Ftre: Islam and Poplar Revolt in Egypt ( ) Isabel Schaefer, Hmboldt U Berlin Civil Society Associations in Tnisia before and after the Revoltion Minor Allison, U Texas Astin Bondaries and Power: Asserting Central Athority by Defining Landscapes in Historical and Contemporary Morocco Hazem Kandil, UCLA Back on Horse?: The Egyptian Military between Two Revoltions Palestine: The Mandate and Its Aftermath Chair: Michael R. Fischbach, Randolph- Macon Col Mezna Qato, U Oxford Lessons in Self- Determination: Historiographies of Palestinian Pedagogical Emancipation ( ) Lara Goffman, New York U Under the Strenos Conditions of the Modern World : Organizing Arab Edcation in Mandatory Palestine Fredrik Meiton, New York U Electrical Power: Infrastrctral Concessions in Early Mandatory Palestine Nicholas E. Roberts, Sewanee: U the Soth Bilding a Palestinian Islam: Britain and the Establishment of the Spreme Mslim Concil in Mandatory Palestine Lara Fish, U Texas Astin Pblicized Violence: Photographed Realities of Palestine Representations of Rebellion and War Carol Bardenstein, U Michigan Transfigring Violence: Aestheticized Backward Glances at the Lebanese Civil War Thirty Years After Ikram Masmodi, U Delaware Fiction and the Unofficial History of Iraqi War Poets Kevin Jones, U Michigan A Horizon Lit with Blood : Poetry, Protest and the Promise of National Liberation in Iraq, Arash Afghahi, New York U Poetry and the Politics of Identity: The Evoltion of Winter as a Trope Hamad Obaid Alajmi, Indiana U Al- Hjayjah s Poetry Inciting Her People to Fight State and Civil Society in Modern Trkey Chair: Mirna Lattof, Arizona State U Hlya Arik, York U Religios vs. Seclar Embodiment: Constrction of the Female Body and Sexality between Political Discorses in Trkish Military Families Neslihan Kaptanogl, American U Trkey and the EU in the Middle East: The Limits on Eropeanization of Trkish Foreign Policy Fark Yalvac, Middle East Technical U Hegemonic Depth and Trkish Foreign Policy Pinar Kemerli, Cornell U Refsing to Become Pios Soldiers: Trkey s Islamist Conscientios Objectors Masaki Kakizaki, U Utah Testing the Social Movement Society Thesis in Trkey: Is Protest becoming a Conventional Mode of Political Participation? The Politics of Langage Chair: Salah-Dine Hammod, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Ivan Panovic, U Oxford Another Word on the Wall: Graffiti in Cairo in the Service of the Revoltion Brahim Chakrani, Michigan State U Examining the Work of Ideology in the Edcational Domain: Langage Attitdes and Use among Moroccan Yoth

15 8:30-10:30AM Snday November 18 Kian Alavy, U Arizona Langage and Literatre in the Homeland Project of the Azerbaijan Democrat Party in Iran Mohamed ElSawi Hassan, Amherst Col Speak That I May See Yo : A Lingistic Reading of Defining Moments of Egypt s Military Concil dring the Revoltion Dris Solaimani, UCLA Orthographies and Langage Ideologies: Selecting a Script for Berber in Morocco Christians and Others in Mslim Societies Chair: Carter V. Findley, Ohio State U Phil Dorroll, Emory U Sacred Violence in Sacred History: War and Peace in Arabic Christian Apologetics Mehmet Ali Dogan, Istanbl Technical U American Missionary Activities in Mardin Shane E. Minkin, Swarthmore Col The Death of the Archbishop: Religios Rital and Political Power in Trn-ofthe-Centry Alexandria, Egypt Abed Al-Rahman Tayyara, Cleveland State U The Representations of the Palicians in Early Islamic Sorces Charles L. Wilkins, Wake Forest U Aspects of Integration and Segregation among the Mslim, Christian, and Jewish Commnities of 17th-Centry Ottoman Aleppo Thematic Conversation Neoliberal Urbanizations in the Arab World (Year 2) Organized by Ala Al-Hamarneh Session Leader: Ala Al-Hamarneh, U Mainz PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP Teaching Middle Eastern Stdies: Promises, Pitfalls and Practicalities Organized by Jne-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart U MESA's Committee for Undergradate Middle Eastern Stdies Chair: Chad G. Lingwood, Grand Valley State U Discssants: Noor-Aiman Khan, Colgate U and Ranjit Singh, U of Mary Washington Edgar W. Francis IV, U Wisconsin Stevens Point Victoria Hightower, North Georgia Col & State U Ed Webb, Dickinson Col Jeff VanDenBerg, Drry U Jeffrey Macris, U.S. Naval Academy Jane H. Mrphy, Colorado Col Bryant "Tip" Ragan, Colorado Col The inagral panel for the newly reconstitted Committee for Undergradate Teaching and Learning in ME Stdies (CUMES) will focs on common challenges and opportnities experienced by edcators in teaching ME Stdies corses in ndergradate, non- research 1 instittions. Transitioning Law: Islamic Law and Its Relation to Other Legal Systems Ihsan Alkhatib, Mrray State U Shari a Law and American Family Corts Hania Abo Al-Shamat, U Florida Receptivity to Legal Change: Merchants Adjstment to the New Commercial Laws and Corts in Egypt, Samaneh Oladi Ghadikolaei, UC Santa Barbara The Contemporary Debate over Islamic Family Law Vardit Rispler-Chaim, U Haifa Islamic Law and People with Disabilities: Between the Terminology and Social Reality Andrew Gardner, U Pget Sond Nadine Scharfenort, U Mainz Diane Singerman, American U Christopher H. Parker, Ghent U Farah Al-Nakib, American U Kwait MESA 2012 Preliminary Program Page 15

16 11AM-1PM Snday November 18 SPECIAL SESSION How the Arab Uprisings Have Made s Rethink What We Knew abot the Arab World Lisa Anderson, American U in Cairo What Have the Arab Uprisings Taght Us abot the Natre of Governance in the Arab World Joel Beinin, Stanford U What Have the Arab Uprisings Taght Us abot Social Mobilization in the Arab World Nathan J. Brown, George Washington U What Have the Arab Uprisings Taght Us abot the Diffsion of Global Norms of Hman Rights and Democracy to the Arab World Sad Joseph, UC Davis What Have the Arab Uprisings Taght Us abot Gender and Gender Politics in the Arab World Carrie Wickham, Emory U What Have the Arab Uprisings Taght Us abot the Evoltion of Political Islam in the Arab World Asli Bali, UCLA What Have the Arab Uprisings Taght Us abot Foreign Intervention in the Arab World It has been almost two years since Mhammad Boazizi s self-immolation and the sbseqent spread of prisings and protests throghot the Arab world. These prisings and protests have not only affected the lives of millions of those living in the region, they compel those of s researching and teaching abot the region to reassess or research agendas and rethink the way we present the Arab world to or stdents. They have also expanded the pblic role of MESA members who have increasingly been called pon by media and others to explain and contextalize events. The prpose of this panel is to assemble experts to explore how the prisings have transformed or nderstanding of the recent history of the region, and what the prisings might teach s abot a nmber of specific topics, from the diffsion of global norms of hman rights beginning in the 1970s and their reception in the region to the expansion of the realm of political Islam to inclde crrents responsive to those norms, and from the transformation of the civic order in the Arab world dring the past three decades to the transformation of the role of the United States in the region in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq and the global economic crisis of Ottoman Inter-Confessional Dialectics in the 19th and Early 20th Centries Organized by Scott Rank Chair: Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Central Eropean U Discssant: Bedross Der Matossian, U Nebraska, Lincoln Scott Rank, Central Eropean U Rethinking Late Ottoman Religios Sectarianism: Christian-Mslim Polemics and Common Discorses of Religios Trth ( ) Alyson Wharton, Mardin Artkl U, Trkey Armenian Chrch Bildings in Diyarbakir and Gaziantep and the Expression of Local Identity in the Second Half of the 19th Centry Asli Gr, U Michigan Transformation of the Edcational Field, Alternative Social Imageries, and Their Impact on the Confessional Grop Relations in the Ottoman Empire ( ) The Long Shadow of Lyatey: Longterm Effects of French Colonialism on Contemporary Morocco Organized by Moshe Gershovich Chair/Discssant: John P. Entelis, Fordham U Spencer Segalla, U Tampa The Lyatist Urban Planning Legacy, the Reconstrction of Agadir, and the Moroccan Modern Pal Williams, U Nebraska at Omaha Christian Commnities in Morocco from the Protectorate to the Present Moshe Gershovich, U Nebraska at Omaha Inadvertent Unifiers: French Military Policies and the Transformation of the Moroccan Contryside Mohamed Daadaoi, Oklahoma City U The Legacy of Maréchal Lyatey and the Modernization of the Makhzen in Morocco Stacy E. Holden, Prde U Contested Memories in Colonial Morocco: The Constrction of Hbert Lyatey s Masolem in Rabat, 1935 Page 16 MESA 2012 Preliminary Program

17 11AM-1PM Snday November 18 Gender, Intersectionality, and the Politics of Social Change Organized by Nadje Al-Ali, SOAS, U London Association for Middle East Women's Stdies Katherine Natanel, SOAS, U London Living in the Garden of Perhaps: Ordinary Life as an Obstacle to Political Change in Israel Leyli Behbahani, SOAS, U London Transnational Iranian Feminist Activism and the Politics of Location Marta Pietrobelli, SOAS, U London Empowerment, Gender and Social Change in the Context of Women s Political Participation in Jordan Ozlem Caliskan, SOAS, U London Intersection of Differences in Anti- Militarist Feminist Organizing in Trkey Rondtable The Americans are Coming: Assessing the Impact of the Expansion of U.S. Stdy Abroad in the Arab World Organized by Allison Hodgkins, U Jordan and Stephen Bsh Chair: Ann M. Lesch, American U in Cairo Katherine N. Yngve, American U Beirt Stephen Bsh, CIEE Michaelle L. Browers, Wake Forest U Cara Lane, AMIDEAST Edcation Abroad in the Arab World Ozlem Altan-Olcay, Koç U Elena D. Corbett, Penn State Erie The Mslim World in the Age of the Crsades: History, Religion and Cltre in the Service of Conter Crsading and Snni Revivalism, Part 1 Organized by Sleiman A. Morad and James E. Lindsay, Colorado State U Middle East Medievalists Chair: Warren C. Schltz, DePal U R. Stephen Hmphreys, UC Santa Barbara Ideological Mobilization in the Age of the Crsades: The Evidence of the Manscripts PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP Nancy Khalek, Brown U Leveraging the Sahaba: Discorses of Orthodoxy and Snni Revival A. Nazir Atassi, Loisiana Tech U The Role of Ibn Sa d s Tabaqat in Ibn Asakir s Tarikh Dimashq Sleiman A. Morad, Smith Col Did the Crsades Change Jersalem s Religios Symbolism in Islam? The Making & Breaking of Bondaries in Africa, Erope and the Middle East Organized by Mona L. Rssell Discssant: Shane E. Minkin, Swarthmore Col Lisa Pollard, UNC Wilmington Making Race into Place on the Frontier Zones of Northeastern Africa in the Late 19th Centry Matthew H. Ellis, Sarah Lawrence Col Drawing a Line in the Sand?: Ottomans, Italians, Bedoins, and the Making of the Egyptian Western Border Crisis, Sarah Shields, UNC Chapel Hill Manfactring Collective Identities: Contesting Territories in the Interwar Middle East Academic Writing for the Media Spported by British Concil Sheila Lalwani, Special Advisor to the Pblisher, Foreign Policy Althogh well-researched, academic writing can often seem inaccessible to many in the media and the general pblic. Academic research can offer important insight to the broader pblic, bt the gap between academic and mainstream media writing styles keeps many scholars from pblishing in poplar media. Jornalist and academic Sheila Lalwani, Merrill School of Jornalism, University of Maryland, and Special Advisor to the Pblisher, Foreign Policy, will offer gidance on writing for the mainstream media, from choosing the appropriate tone and style to identifying news otlets to pitch. She will cover the following topics, among others: What are editors and news otlets looking for? How do yo pitch a story to editors? How can an academic argment be crafted into effective messaging in a media context? What changes mst be made when writing an article for wide dissemination? Mona L. Rssell, East Carolina U Bordering on Illicit Sarah Thomsen Vierra, UNC Chapel Hill A Space Apart or a Part of Society?: Trkish Mosqes in West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s Finding Islam in Cyberspace: Hip Hop, Video Games, Armageddon and Wiki Apostates Organized by Daniel Martin Varisco Chair: Vit Sisler, Charles U in Prage Discssant: Jon W. Anderson, Catholic U America Anders Ackfeldt, Lnd U I Am Malcolm X : Mslim Hip-Hop Video Clips Online Vit Sisler, Charles U Prage Playing with Religion: Representation of Islam in Video Games Goran Larsson, U Gothenbrg Wikiislam and Apostasy: The Pblic Talk abot Islam and Heresy in Cyberspace Daniel Martin Varisco, Hofstra U Really and Virtally Armageddon Bond: Online Christian and Mslim Apocalyptic Scenarios MESA 2012 Preliminary Program Page 17

18 11AM-1PM Snday November 18 Palestine and the Arab Revoltions Organized by Sherene Seikaly Palestinian American Research Center and Jadaliyya Chair/Discssant: Sherene Seikaly, American U in Cairo Taheer A. Araj, American U in Cairo Does the Road to Freedom Begin in Cairo?: Palestinian Political Activism in Egypt Halla Shoaibi, American U The Arab Revoltions: Rethinking Women s Activism in Palestine Fadi Qran, Birzeit U The Rise of a New Generation of Palestinian Revoltionary Agents Nora Erakat, Georgetown U Palestinian Refgees and the Arab Spring: Legal Regimes, Drable Soltions, and Otstanding Qestions Islam and Nationalism: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Dialoges Organized by Leif Stenberg Spported by Center for Middle Eastern Stdies Lnd University Chair/Discssant: Umt Ozkirimli, Lnd U Leif Stenberg, Lnd U The Syrian State and Official Islam Reza Arjmand, Lnd U Edcation of Intimate and Management of Desires as Part of Nationalist Project in Egypt and Iran Catharina Radvere, U Copenhagen Personal Loss and Collective Memory: Pblic Mslim Ritals in the Commemoration of War Victims in Sarajevo Spyros A. Sofos, U Oxford Who are the Eropean Mslims? Social Histories of the Oil Indstry in Modern Iran Organized by Kaveh Ehsani Toraj Atabaki, International Institte of Social History The Making of the Abadan Oil Refinery Maral Jefrodi, International Institte of Social History The White Revoltion and Oil Workers of Khzestan: Perceptions, Appropriations and Experiences Jamaseb Soltani, International Institte of Social History The Last Migration: Indstrialization of Nomads in the Iranian Oil Indstry Peyman Jafari, International Institte of Social History The Impact of Revoltion and War on the Iranian Oil Indstry Kaveh Ehsani, DePal U The Urban Life of Oil: The Bilt Environment and Daily Life in Khzestan s Company Towns In the Shadow of the Cold War: Modern Art in the Arab World Organized by Sarah Rogers and Saleem Al-Bahloly Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran and Trkey Jessica Gerschltz, U Kansas Mtable Form and Materiality: Interweaving Art and Politics in the New Tapestry of Safia Farhat, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Maria Laskiewicz, and Jagoda Bic Sarah Rogers, Darat Al Fnn The American U Beirt and the Formation of the Modern Lebanese Artist Saleem Al-Bahloly, UC Berkeley The Politics of the Modern Artwork in Cold War Iraq Political Economy of the Arabian Peninsla, Part I Association for Glf & Arabian Peninsla Stdies Chair: Joe Stork, Hman Rights Watch Stephen Steinbeiser, American Institte for Yemeni Stdies The Role of Law in Yemen Jim Krane, Cambridge U The Politics of Energy Policy in the Glf Arab States: Shortage and Reform in the World s Storehose of Energy Gwenn Okrhlik, Qatar U/Brookings Doha Fellow The Politics of Distribtion: State Bilding and Sect in the Arabian Peninsla Glenn E. Robinson, Naval Postgradate School The Political Economy of Corrption in Yemen Egypt: 18th-20th Centries Chair: Vivian Ibrahim, SOAS, U of London Catherine Orsborn, U Denver Shifting Identities in Colonial Egypt: A Case Stdy on Religios Gropism Hanan H. Hammad, Texas Christian U Colonial Hybridity: The Colonial- National Strggle over Prostittion after the British Invasion of Egypt Sara Nimis, Miami U Sfi Rital in Eighteenth Centry Egypt: Political Implications of Diverse Ways to God Shaden M. Tageldin, U Minnesota Fénelon s Gods, Al-Tahtawi s Jinn: Comparison, Translation, and the Complsion to Realism Andrew Jan, UCLA Sfis, Bakris, and Pashas: The Breacratization of Religion in Nineteenth-Centry Cairo Page 18 MESA 2012 Preliminary Program

19 11AM-1PM Snday November 18 Mobilizing Identities in Modern Trkey Chair: Sabri Ciftci, Kansas State U F. Michael Wthrich, U Kansas Three Paradoxes in the Development of Krdish Nationalism in Trkey Can Ozcan, U Utah Forgetting the Past, Remembering the Ftre: An Analysis of the Socio-Spatial Strategies of Early Modern Trkish Repblic in Istanbl and Ankara Fatma Betl Cihan-Artn, U Massachsetts Amherst Framing Rmi: The Politicized Representations of Mawlana Jalal Al-Din Rmi in Modern Trkey Poetics of Protest and Alienation: Contemporary Arabic Poetry and Fiction Mohammad Salama, San Francisco State U Islam and the Constrction of National Identity in Ahmad Shawqi Dominic Coldwell, U Oxford Poplar Poetry Revisited: Sitating Shaikh Imam and Ahmad F ad Nigm s Adience(s) Alya El Hosseiny, New York U I Am The People: Poetics of Poplism in Egyptian Revoltionary Poetry Benjamin Smith, Harvard U Ala Al- Aswani s Shikagh Read against the Prose of the Mahjar Sfis and Their Worlds Chair: Erik S. Ohlander, Indiana U - Prde U Ft. Wayne Side Emre, Texas A&M U Being a Fssi : Mhyi-i Gülseni s (d. 1603/1604 C.E.) Intellectal World and Defense of Ibn Al-Arabi Ata Anzali, Middlebry Col Some Reflections on the Early Developments of the Zahabiyyah Sfi Order John Dechant, Indiana U Zayn Al-Din-i Taybadi and the Constrction of Sacred Space in Khrasan Cities in Transformation Chair: Roberto Mazza, Western Illinois U Domenico Copertino, U Milan-Bicocca Gentrifiers, Preservationists and the Changing Urban Landscape of Damascs, Syria Zia Salim, San Diego State U/UC Santa Barbara Bilding Commnity? Hosing Componds in Bahrain Arash Sedighi, SOAS, U London Changing Perspectives of the Modern City: Jahan-Nama Tower and Nazvhvan Natral Park in Esfahan Gretchen Head, UC Berkeley Writing Casablanca s Bidonvilles: Mhammad Zifzaf s Mhawilat Aysh Thematic Conversation Sorces and Resorces for Middle Eastern American Stdies (Year 2) Organized by Paline Homsi Vinson Session Leader: Gary David, Bentley U Anan Ameri, Arab American National Msem Ltfi Hssein, Mesa Commnity Col Paline Homsi Vinson, Independent Scholar Germine Awad, U Texas Astin Loise A. Cainkar, Marqette U Rita Stephan, U.S. Censs Brea MESA 2012 Preliminary Program Page 19

20 Iranian History- The Minorities Version Organized by Lior Sternfeld Chair: Kamran S. Aghaie, U Texas Astin Discssant: Jan Cole, U Michigan Mehrdad Amanat, Independent Scholar Empowerment and Persection: Non-Mslim Commnities in the Constittional Period ( ) Aaron V. Sealy, U Michigan Writing the History of Shi ite Nationalism in Iran as if Minorities Mattered Haideh Sahim, Hofstra U From Isolation to Participation: Jewish Contribtion to the Making of Modern Iran Lior Sternfeld, U Texas Astin The Revoltion s Forgotten Sons: The Islamic Revoltion and the Jewish Commnity Rondtable Cosmopolitanism and Modernity in the 20th Centry Middle East Organized by Andrea L. Stanton Deborah Starr, Cornell U Tsolin Nalbantian, Leiden U Kevin W. Martin, Indiana U Andrea L. Stanton, U Denver New Approaches to Non-Mslims and Law in Islamic Societies Organized by Lev Weitz and Jessica M. Marglin Chair: David S. Powers, Cornell U Discssant: Marina Rstow, Johns Hopkins U Lev Weitz, Princeton U Analogy and Tradition in East Syrian Law: A Dispte over Cosin Marriage Tamer el-leithy, New York U The Biography of a Coptic Alley in Cairo: Coptic Families and Property in Mslim Corts ( A.D.) Jessica M. Marglin, Princeton U The Word of a Dhimm?: Jews Testimony in Moroccan Shari a Corts, Mark Wagner, Loisiana State U Inter- Commnal Violence and the Shari ah in Twentieth-Centry Yemen 2-4PM Snday November 18 The Palestinians: Representation and Accontability Organized by George Bisharat Spported by Jornal of Palestine Stdies Chair/Discssant: George Bisharat, UC Hastings Col of the Law Osamah Khalil, Syracse U Who are Yo? : The Politics and Limits of Representation and Accontability Nimer Sltany, Harvard U The Palestinian Citizens in Israel Khalil Shaheen, Palestine Center for Policy Research and Strategic Stdies Reform Movements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip Diana Btt, Consltant Talk to Me! Post-Ottoman Citizenship Discorses in the Arab Levant Organized by Laren Banko Syrian Stdies Association Chair: Shira Robinson, George Washington U Discssant: Will Hanley, Florida State U Benjamin Thomas White, U Birmingham Refgees and Nationality in 1920s Syria and Lebanon Laren Banko, SOAS, U London Nationality, Citizenship and Rights: Palestinian Conterdiscorses and Practices, Hilary Falb, UC Berkeley Are They Edcating Their Ppils for a World in which They are To Be First or Second? : Government Schools and Citizenship in the Mandates for Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Palestine Seda Altg, Boğaziçi U Debating Syrianness in French-Syria ( ) Geographies of the Modern Nation State: Spatial Approaches to Nationhood and Ethnicity in the Ottoman Empire and Early Repblican Trkey Organized by Ipek K. Yosmaogl and Amy Mills Discssant: Ian R. Manners, U Texas Astin (Emerits) Ipek K. Yosmaogl, Northwestern U Violence of the Map, Silence of the People: Thematic Maps, Ethnography and the Visal Representations of Ethnic Homogeneity Kerem Oktem, U Oxford Manfactring Monochrome: Ethno-Territoriality and the Transformation of a Mlti-Ethnic, Mlti-Religios Ottoman Province into a Trkish City Sibel Zandi-Sayek, Col of William and Mary Cadastral Mapping and the Politics of Citizenship in Tanzimat Izmir Amy Mills, U Soth Carolina Urbanism and Nationalism in Satirical Jornals of Repblican-Era Istanbl Yemen after Saleh Organized by Charles P. Schmitz American Institte for Yemeni Stdies Chair: Charles P. Schmitz, Towson U Discssant: Michael C. Hdson, National U Singapore Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Hobart and William Smith Cols Fragmentation and Reintegration?: Yemen s Opposition in the Wake of the Change Revoltion Kamilia Al-Eriani, Monash U Reactionary Responsible Friendship?: Reflections on the Yemeni Revoltion Abdllah Hamidaddin, Kings Col London The Hthis Ssanne Dahlgren, Helsinki Collegim for Advanced Stdies The Ftre of Soth Yemen: Between the Devil and the Deep Ble Sea Charles P. Schmitz, Towson U Yemen s Post-Hydrocarbon Economy Sophia Pandya, CSU Long Beach Women, Religion, and Yemen s Arab Spring Page 20 MESA 2012 Preliminary Program

21 The Mslim World in the Age of the Crsades: History, Religion and Cltre in the Service of Conter Crsading and Snni Revivalism, Part 2 Organized by Sleiman A. Morad, Smith Col and James E. Lindsay Middle East Medievalists Chair: Zayde G. Antrim, Trinity Col Discssant: Pal M. Cobb, U Pennsylvania Pal E. Chevedden, UCLA Apocalypticism in the Service of Politics: Alī ibn Ṭāhir Al-Slamī s Response to the Crsades James E. Lindsay, Colorado State U Jihad Propaganda in Damascs: Scholars, Rlers, and the Masses Konrad Hirschler, SOAS, U London The Earliest Docmented Arabic Book Collection: The Profile of an Endowed Library in 13th-Centry Damascs The Krds in Syria: Past, Present and Ftre Organized by Christian Sinclair Krdish Stdies Association Chair: Shayee Khanaka, UC Berkeley Sebastian Maisel, Grand Valley State U Identity Bilding among Yezidis from Syria: Discorses of History, Homeland, and Exile Matt Flannes, U Arizona Krdish-State Relations in Syria: A Precarios Balance Eva Savelsberg, Eropean Center for Krdish Stdies Old Borders, New Concepts: Some Remarks on How to Respect Krdish National Rights in a Unified Syria Christian Sinclair, U Arizona Assimilation and Arabization: Langage and Lingistic Identity amongst Krds in Syria 2-4PM Snday November 18 Faith-Based Conservative Activism in Trkey: Fethllah Glen as a Social Movement Organized by Josha Hendrick Chair: Josha Hendrick, Loyola U Maryland Discssant: Howard Eissenstat, St. Lawrence U Alexander R. Arifianto, Arizona State U Globalization, Moral Athority Leadership, and Progressive Islamic Discorse: The Fethllah Glen Movement and the Nahdlatl Ulama in Comparative Historical Perspective David Tittensor, Centre for Dialoge, La Trobe U Gülen s Schools and the Changing Natre of Islamic Mission: Exploring the Teacher-Stdent Dynamic Flya Apaydin, Institt Barcelona D Estdis Internacionals Soft Power a la Trca?: Limits and Opportnities of Trkish Inflence in Central Asia and Sb-Saharan Africa Hsnl Amin, International Islamic U Islamabad Market-Based bt Socially Conservative Post-Islamism: A Case of Gllen Movement in Pakistan Content Based Arabic Second Langage Instrction (CBI): Isses and Practical Considerations, the CASA Experience Organized by Iman Aziz Soliman Center for Arabic Stdy Abroad Chair: Iman Aziz Soliman, Center for Arabic Stdy Abroad (CASA) Nadia Harb, CASA, American U in Cairo The Role of Task Design in Content-Based Instrction: The Case of Palestinian Literatre Corse Sayyed Daifallah, CASA, American U in Cairo Role of Stdents in Developing a Content and Langage Crriclm Hebatalah Salem, CASA, American U in Cairo Challenges of Teaching Athentic Arabic in the CBI Crriclm: The Case of Colloqial Literatre Mahmod Al-Batal, U Texas Astin Preparing Stdents for Content-Based Instrction Abroad: Crriclar and Pedagogical Isses Politics and Literatre Intertwined: The State Meets the Citizen in the Modern Arab World Organized by Caroleen Sayej Caroleen Sayej, Connectict Col Engaging the Athoritarian State Waed N. Athamneh, Indiana U Committment and Identity in Selected Poems by Darwish Mhammad Masd, Illinois State U The Politics of Children s Literatre in Egypt Rethinking Elections in Athoritarian States: Insights from the Periphery Organized by Malika Boziane and Anja Hoffmann Naoal Belakhdar, Hertie School of Governance Rethinking Elections, Boycott and Protest in Algeria Anja Hoffmann, Free U Berlin Moroccan Elections and the Referendm on the New Constittion: Close Enconters from the Middle Atlas Malika Boziane, Free U Berlin Celebrating a National Wedding: Elections in the Periphery of Jordan Hala C. Abo-Zaki, EHESS/IRD/ CEMAM Celebrating Local Elections in the Palestinian Refgee Camp of Shatila after the Syrian Withdrawal from Lebanon in 2005 State of the Field: Agricltre and Colonial Rle in Egypt, Organized by Aaron G. Jakes Chair/Discssant: Sherene Seikaly, American U in Cairo Aaron G. Jakes, New York U Floating Towards Crisis: Gresham Life Insrance and the Mortgage Boom in British Egypt Samantha Iyer, UC Berkeley The Fictitios Commodity of Land and Egypt s Grain Market, Eric Schewe, U Michigan State Secritization of Agricltre and Spply in Egypt, Jennifer Derr, Bard Col The Evolving Properties of the Colonial State: Practicing Colonial Rle throgh Agricltre in Egypt s Soth MESA 2012 Preliminary Program Page 21

22 2-4PM Snday November 18 Political Economy of the Arabian Peninsla, Part II Association for Glf & Arabian Peninsla Stdies Chair: Joe Stork, Hman Rights Watch Mehran Kamrava, Georgetown U-Qatar State-Bilding and Political Consolidation in Qatar Jocelyn Sage Mitchell, Northwestern U in Qatar The Politics of Legitimacy: A Case Stdy of Qatar Sang Hyn Song, U Utah Sadi Arabian Oil Policy as a Swing Prodcer in the 1980s Debra Shshan, Col of William and Mary Prestige at Home and Abroad: Qatar s Bold Foreign Policy in a New Middle East Martin Hvidt, U Sothern Denmark Economic Diversification in the GCC Contries: Past Record and Ftre Trends Thematic Conversation The Arab Uprisings: Media Representations of Women & Yoth (Year 2) Organized by Therese Saliba Session Leader: Therese Saliba, Evergreen State Col Sad Joseph, UC Davis Bahar Davary, U San Diego Linda Steet, SUNY Geneseo Sarah Galtieri, U Sothern California More than Meets the Eye: Spaces, Places, and Monments Chair: Jacqeline Armijo, Qatar U Karen A. Leal, Harvard U An Ottoman Egyptian Obelisk in New York: An Examination of Shifting Landscapes in the Gilded Age Helga Tawil Sori, New York U Contradictory Space(s) of Resistance: Hizballah s Mleeta Msem Amaya Martin, U Notre Dame The Umayyad Mosqe in the Cathedral of Cordoba: Presentation of Its History and Spatial Organization to Visitors Tamir Sorek, U Florida The Distinctiveness of the Collective Narrative of the Palestinians in Israel Page 22 MESA 2012 Preliminary Program

23 4:30-6:30PM Snday November 18 SPECIAL SESSION Blrring Nationalism and Religion in the Early 20th Centry Middle East Organized by Ahmet Serdar Aktrk and Matthew Parnell Syrian Stdies Association Chair: Lisa Pollard, UNC Wilmington Discssant: Joel Gordon, U Arkansas Bridges of Understanding: The Contribtion of Mslim Cltres to American and Eropean Societies Ahmet Serdar Aktrk, U Arkansas Many Faces of Religion: Krdish Nationalism in French Mandatory Levant Matthew Parnell, U Arkansas What is National Unity? : Religion, Egyptian Nationalism and the 1919 Revoltion Stacy Fahrenthold, Northeastern U Men of the Nation, Men of the Cloth: Lebanese Diasporic Nationalism and the Chrch, Spported by British Concil Participants TBA Islam and Mslims have played a significant role in the historical development of both the United States and Erope. The vast contribtions of Mslim societies and scholars to science and other fields remain largely nrecognized in Erope and the United States. The history of Eropean (and Western ) achievements in the fields of cltre, the arts, hmanities and sciences is often written with hardly any reference to Mslim cltre and inflence. Sch a redctionist and incomplete view of history has been sccessflly challenged by years of scholarship. How can this misperception be addressed? Panelists will offer their views on this qestion, among others: How can a deeper knowledge of the common historical roots shared by Mslim, Christian and Jewish cltres lead to a better nderstanding of the rich and complex identities that make p Eropean and American societies today? What are some innovative ways of improving pblic knowledge of Mslimnon-Mslim interactions, exchanges and cross inflence in the fields of science, the arts, and hmanities historically and in the present time? Will sch innovative ways impact how teachers and stdents engage with the content? How can academic knowledge of shared histories and common cltral roots permeate or nderstanding of the world today and inflence crrent debates in relevant ways? Simon Jackson, Eropean U Institte, Florence Sacred Infrastrctre: The Maronite Chrch as Instittional Shareholder in Mandate-Era Economic Development Globalization, Modernization and Social Change in Contemporary Iran Organized by Soheyl Amini Spported by Salve Regina University and Mazda Pblishers Chair: Soheyl Amini, Salve Regina U Mojtaba Mahdavi, U Alberta Modernity from Below: Making Sense of Post- Islamism in Iran Soheyl Amini, Salve Regina U Social Movements in the Age of the Internet: The Contested Space Laila Taraghi, U Arkansas Competing for Relevance: Iran s Internal Strggle to Define the Arab Uprisings Janet Alexanian, UC Irvine Politicizing lives: The Constrction of Iranian Yoth as Global Symbol Jairan Gahan, U Toronto The Presence of the (In)visible: Prostittion in Iran, from Brothels to Streets Elika Porbohlol, UCLA Virtal Gateways to Iranian Cltral and Intellectal Prodction Migration and (Non-)Citizenship in Arab Glf States: Policies, Practices, and Negotiations Organized by Imco Brower, Glf Research Center Organized nder the aspices of Glf Labor Markets and Migration Program of the GRC (Jeddah, Geneva, Cambridge) and the EUI (Florence) Chair: Gwenn Okrhlik, Qatar U/ Brookings Doha Fellow Noora Lori, Johns Hopkins U State Formation and the Constrction of Citizens and Noncitizens in the United Arab Emirates Gianlca Paolo Parolin, American U in Cairo (Non-)Natralization Policies in the GCC Member States Zahra Babar, Georgetown U Inclsion/ Exclsion: Citizens and Migrants in the State of Qatar Neha Vora, Texas A&M U Indians in Dbai: Impossible Citizens The United States and the Middle East: The End of the American Centry? Organized by Osamah Khalil Chair: Nathan Citino, Colorado State U Discssant: Osamah Khalil, Syracse U Waleed Hazbn, American U Beirt American Efforts to Navigate the Changing Regional Order in the Middle East Brandon Wolfe-Honnictt, Stanford U The Antimonies of American Global Power: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Emergence of the Second Ba thist Regime in Iraq contined next page MESA 2012 Preliminary Program Page 23

24 4:30-6:30PM Snday November 18 Lisa Bhngalia, Syracse U Landscapes of Secrity: U.S. National Secritization throgh Aid in Palestine Steve Niva, Evergreen State Col Deterritorializing War: America s Special Operations and the Dark Arts of Networked Warfare in the Middle East and Beyond Arab American Stdies at the Crossroads Organized by Paline Homsi Vinson Arab American Stdies Association Chair: Paline Homsi Vinson, Independent Scholar Discssant: Amaney A. Jamal, Princeton U Rita Stephan, U.S. Censs Brea Social and Economic Characteristics of the Arab American Poplation Sally Howell, U Michigan Dearborn A Tale of Two Disciplines: Arab American and Mslim American Stdies at a Crossroads Yasmeen Hanoosh, Portland State U Discrsive Inclsions and Exclsions of Arabness: Chaldean American Stdies at the Crossroads Randa Kayyali, George Mason U A Compatible Match: Interdisciplinarity, Cltral Stdies and Arab American Stdies Matthew Jaber Stiffler, Arab American National Msem Self-Orientalism and the Dilemma of Scholarly Critiqe Athors and Archives: Transforming Sbjectivities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centries Organized by Nir Shafir and Sabrina Peric Discssant: Dana Sajdi, Boston Col Nir Shafir, UCLA The Virtes of the Days: Abdlghani Al-Nablsi s Narration of the Self throgh His Diaries and Letters Tna Artn, Princeton U Forty Years of Disappointment: Osman Bilani s Majma and 18th Centry Alchemical Texts as Ego Docments Heather Fergson, Claremont McKenna Col Between Ethics and Politics: The Elaboration of a Critical Mode in Ottoman Administrative Genres Sabrina Peric, U Calgary Mining, Writing, Archiving: An 18th Centry Friar on the Edge of Empires Ekin Tsalp, Harvard U The Katiban in the Seventeenth Centry: Intersections of Genre, Identity and Ethos in Ottoman Breacracy Rondtable New Strategies and Methodologies for Teaching of Modern Armenian Organized by Barlow Der Mgrdechian Chair: Kevork B. Bardakjian, U Michigan Barlow Der Mgrdechian, CSU Fresno Ani Kasparian, U Michigan Dearborn Colonial, Revoltionary, and Contemporary Libya: Emerging Research Organized by Mia Fller American Institte for Maghrib Stdies Chair: Mia Fller, UC Berkeley Discssant: Ali Abdllatif Ahmida, U New England Stephanie Malia Hom, U Oklahoma Technologies of Mobility: Militarism and Pacification in Italian Colonial Libya Angelo Caglioti, UC Berkeley Making Environmental Knowledge, Prodcing Colonial Libya Eileen Ryan, Colmbia U Italy and the Sansiyya: Negotiating Athority in Colonial Libya Cladia Gazzini, Northwestern U Trial by Error: Jstice and Reconciliation in Post-Qaddafi Libya The Spatial Prodction of Identities in the Trkish Repblic Organized by Zeynep Kezer, Kimberly Hart, and Alison B. Snyder Chair: Zeynep Kezer, Newcastle U Anna Secor, U Kentcky and Ban Gokariksel, UNC Chapel Hill The Fashionable Veil, the City, and the Sbject Kimberly Hart, Bffalo State Col Rral Anatolian Mosqe Tales: Constrction, Destrction, Reconstrction Deborah Drham, Sweet Briar Col A Site (Cité) on a Hill: Aging, Class and Citizenship in a Trkish Retirement Home Zeynep Kezer, Newcastle U Edge of State: The Making of an Internal Border in Early Repblican Elazığ (Trkey) Alison B. Snyder, U Oregon Repositioning the Iconic Avene: Istanbl s Istiklal Caddesi Takes on Its Next New Life Seeing the Political: Gender and Visal Cltre in the Middle East and Its Diasporas Organized by Tahereh Aghdasifar Sara Prsley, CUNY Gradate Center Nation, Gender, Time in Jawad Salim s Monment to Freedom Tahereh Aghdasifar, Emory U Masclinity in Crisis?: Making Sense of the Majid Tavakoli Case Elizabeth Harrington, New York U Recognizing Women: Photography and Feminism from Iran Isabella Archer, UNC Chapel Hill Searching for a Sense of Belonging: Gender and Identity in the Photography of Lalla Essaydi The 1967 Watershed: The Arab-Israeli Conflict in the Aftermath of the Jne War Organized by Avi Raz Chair/Discssant: James L. Gelvin, UCLA Avi Raz, U Oxford The Bride and the Dowry: Israel s Foreign Policy of Prevarication in the Aftermath of the Jne 1967 War Page 24 MESA 2012 Preliminary Program

25 4:30-6:30PM Snday November 18 Olivia Sohns, Cambridge U Hostage to Fortne: President Johnson s Arab- Israeli Policies after the Jne 1967 War Shay Malki, Ben Grion U the Negev From Radicalism to Pragmatism: Egyptian Intellectal Discorse towards Israel, Hillel Grenberg, New York U Yo re Still Here Too!? : Continity and Change in Israeli-Arab Policy after 1967 Ottoman Vassals in the North and Their Interactions across the East Eropean Steppe Frontier Organized by Mrat Yasar Mrat Yasar, U Toronto Internationalization of the North Cacass as a Borderland: Islamization verss Christianization and the Sltan verss the Tsar Maryna Kravets, U Toronto Ransom and Exchange of Captives on the Crimean-Mscovite Frontier: A Case Stdy from 1649 Sait Ocakli, U Toronto Crimean Khan Islam III Geray s Approach to the Strggle for Hegemony in Eastern Erope Formlations of Alid and Shi i Commnal Identity in the Formative Period of Islam Chair: Dale J. Correa, New York U Alyssa Gabbay, U Washington Heiress to the Prophet: Fatima, Fadak, and Female Inheritance in Islam Torsten Hylen, Dalarna U Revenge or Martyrdom!: The Story of the Penitents as a Link to the Early Development of Shi ism Aaron Hagler, U Pennsylvania The Echoes of Fitna: Developing Historiographical Interpretations of the Battle of Siffin Michael Dann, Princeton U Hagiography of Slave-Women: The Mothers of the Imams in Imami Historical Memory Understanding Cities Chair: Karam Dana, Harvard U Marika Snider, U Utah Urban Morphology of Aylah, Jordan throgh Digital Tools and Virtal Reconstrctions Alexandra Sprano, New York U Mlticltralism and Nation: Gaziantep as a Case Stdy Satoshi Kawamoto, U Tokyo The Making of Ottoman Neighborhood: A Case Stdy of Sixteenth-Centry Istanbl John M. Willis, U Colorado Mending Scattered Hearts: The Companions Graves and the Interwar Movement for Islamic Unity Love, Emotion, and Sexality in Literatre Chair: Sanaa Riaz, Ashford U Kifah Hanna, Trinity Col Retrning to the Roots: Desire in Lebanese War Literatre Alexander Jabbari, UC Irvine The Sexal Aesthetics of Modernity: Homoeroticism, Nation, and the Modern in Persianate Literary Criticism Jedidiah Anderson, Indiana U Langage and Sexality Lebanon: A Case Stdy sing Lingistic Corpora Shervin Emami, UCLA Rmi, Farrokhzad and Tavalodi Digar Rebirth Classical Arabic Poetry and Prose Chair: Majd Yaser Al-Mallah, Grand Valley State U Ailin Qian, U Pennsylvania The Virtes of Al-Saymari Ali Hssein, U Haifa Mlayh Ibn Al- Hakam: The Man throgh His Poetical Otpt Cory Jorgensen, George Washington U Doin the Dozens in Umayyad-Era Basra Richard A. Serrano, Rtgers U The Heart s Rbble of Jamil Bthaynah s Reconstrcted Diwan Thematic Conversation Assyrians and Minority Stdies Organized by Fadi Dawood Session Leader: Fadi Dawood, SOAS, U London Sharokin Betgevargiz, Savannah Col of Art and Design Sargon Donabed, Roger Williams U Nicholas Al-Jeloo, U Sydney Hannibal Travis, FIU Col of Law MESA 2012 Preliminary Program Page 25

26 7:00pm-8:30pm v Room TBA 2012 Presidential Address Fred M. Donner University of Chicago 2012 MESA Awards Ceremony Please join MESA in recognizing the very best in the field in 2012, inclding presentations of the following awards: Albert Horani Book Award Hoshang Porshariati Iranian Stdies Book Award Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards MESA Mentoring Award Jere L. Bacharach Service Award MESA Gradate Stdent Paper Prize immediately followed by the MESA Dance Party Page 26 MESA 2012 Preliminary Program

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