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1 برنامج المؤتمر Conference Program Day 1 March 19 اليوم االول - 19 آذار Conference Registration 9:30-8:45 التسجيل للمؤتمر Opening Session Seteney Shami and Abdenasser Djabi Keynote Session Revolutions Overthrow Ideas as Well Chair: Rahma Bourqia Speaker: Fawwaz Traboulsi جلسة االفتتاح ستناي شامي و عبد الناصر الجابي جلسة مفتاحية الثورات تسقط األفكار أيضا رئيس الجلسة: رحمه بورقيه المتحدث الرئيسي: فواز طرابلسي 10:00-9:30 11:15-10:00 Coffee Break 11:45-11:15 استراحة Sessions :15-11:45 جلسات Roundtable: New Paradigms Factory Session: Critiquing of Paradigms of Sovereignty: between Authority and Resistance Chair: Mona Fawaz Room: Multimedia طاولة مستديرة: مشغل النماذج الفكرية الجديدة جلسة: نقد السيادة كنموذج فكري: ما بين السلطة والمقاومة مدير/ة الجلسة: منى فواز الغرفة: Multimedia Mohammad Ayoub Hocine Zobiri Abir Saksouk Sasso محمد أيوب حسين زبيري عبير سقسوق ساسو السيادة في اإلسالم وإعادة النظر في دور األزهر في مصر الجديدة الدولة والمفاهيم البديلة لدى العمال عن السيادات واالتحادات المستقلة في الجزائر السيادات الجماعاتية والمساحات العامة في بيروت: قصة الدالية Akram Abbas Jamil Mouawad أكرم عباس جميل معوض فضاءات السيادة اإلسالمية وهيئاتها في السودان: الدولة تجابه المرأة جغرافيا نقاط التفتيش في لبنان: أهي تأكيد لسيادة الدولة أم استنساخ لدويالت زمن الحرب

2 2 Session: Youth and Political Mobilization Chair: Eileen Kuttab جلسة : الشباب والتعبئة السياسية مدير/ة الجلسة: ايلين كتاب Caroline Barbary Nazek Saleh Mjiriam Abu Samra Ratiba Hadj-Moussa كارولين بربري نازك صالح ميريام أبو سمرا رتيبة الحاج-موسى De Kifâya à la Coalition des jeunes de la Révolution : un renouvellement des générations militantes? الحراك الشبابي األردني: المرحلة وأهم التحديات Palestinian Transnational Student Movements: From the Nakba to the Arab Revolutions De la forme émeute : Penser avec et contre les mouvements sociaux (le cas du Maghreb) 3 Session: Knowledge Regimes and Interpretive Communities Chair: Abdelkarim Barghouti Room: Ishtar جلسة : أنظمة المعرفة والجماعات التفسيرية مدير/ة الجلسة: عبد الكريم برغوثي الغرفة: عشتار David Owen Amal Abedrabo and Aly Galaby Rami Daher Sari Hanafi دايفد أوين أمل عبد ربو وعلي جلبي رامي ضاهر ساري حنفي The Roots of Knowledge: The Pedagogy of Usul al-fiqh in Contemporary Palestine الحركات االجتماعية الجديدة وحقوق اإلنسان: تحليل نقدي لخطاب حركات مناهضة العولمة بمصر The Ammani School of Consciousness Building - A Critical Observation of the Current Arab Condition and the 100-Year Overdue Exercise Arab Uprisings and Sociological Scholarship 4 Session: State Power, Political Economy and Social Formations Chair: Luna Khirfan Room: Elissar جلسة : السلطة اإلقتصاد السياسي والتشكيالت اإلجتماعية مدير/ة الجلسة: لونا خرفان الغرفة: اليسار Ziad Abu Rish Fadila Akkache Eric Lob Mohamed Fahmy Menza زياد أبو ريش فضيلة عكاش اريك لوب محمد فهمي منزا Beyond Binaries: Oppositional Mobilization, Regime- Society Dynamics, and State Formation in Jordan الحركات االجتماعية في الجزائر بين الطبيعة الريعية للدولة وضعف التكوينات الطبقية Lebanon s Agricultural Crisis and Hezbollah s Eroding Legitimacy Neoliberalism and Social Change in Cairo in the aftermath of the Egyptian Spring

3 Lunch Break 11:45-11:15 استراحة الغذاء Sessions :15-11:45 جلسات Roundtable: New Paradigms Factory Session: Spaces and Bodies of Sovereignty from Below Chair: Paul Amar Room: Multimedia طاولة مستديرة : مشغل النماذج الفكرية الجديدة جلسة : فضاءات واجساد السيادة: تحليل من القاعدة مدير/ة الجلسة: بولس عمار الغرفة: Multimedia Ala a Al-Shehabi Ahmad Hosni Imen Yacoubi Nadine Bekdache Toufic Haddad آالء الشهابي أحمد حسني إيمان يعقوبي نادين بكداش توفيق حداد Bahrain's sovereignty crisis in light of the 2011 Arab Spring uprising Sinai Sovereignties: Conflict, Tourism, and Territorializations in South Sinai Dissociative Sovereignty from Below: Beyond State Feminism and the Politics of Women against Women in Tunisia Evicting Sovereignty: Old Housing Tenants from Citizens to State Obstacles Palestine Ltd.: A Borrowed Sovereignty in the Age of Neoliberal State-building 6 Session: The Dispossessed and Displaced Issues and Rights Chair: Omar Dahi جلسة : المبعدين والنازحين: حقوق وقضايا مدير/ة الجلسة: عمر الضاحي Ruba Salih ربى صالح Rights and Return. Rethinking Palestinian Refugeehood Marie Kortam Aitemad Muhanna Adam Almqvist La violence de l oppression dans les camps de réfugiés palestiniens au Liban Gender Subjectivity under the Situation of Humanitarian Crisis in the Gaza Strip: Contradictory but Self- Respected Re-Imagining Syria: Subverting the Image of State and Regime ماري كورتام اعتماد مهنا آدم ألمكفست

4 7 Session: Transnational / Transregional Connections Chair: Nada Ghandour-Demiri Room: Ishtar جلسة : العالقات العبر وطنية / العبر إقليمية مدير/ة الجلسة: ندى غندور- ديميري الغرفة: عشتار Francesca Zampagni Fernando Broncoli فرنشيسكا زامباني The Schengen Regime and Unequal Access to Foreign Spaces - The Persistence of Bordering in the After-Ben Ali Tunisia Mercenaries as an Element of Regional Instability: Transnational Implications of Hired Soldiers in Libya فرناندو برانكولي Özge Artik Les enjeux géopolitiques de la révolte Syrienne en Turquie: Le retour aux anciennes représentations territoriales et confessionnelles? أوزغي أرتيك Katarzyna Jarecka- Stepien Arab Spring and Eastern European Experience: Inspirations, Similarities and Differences كترزينا جريكا-ستيبيان 8 Session: Dynamics and Agents of Transformation Chair: Ebtisam El-Kitbi Room: Elissar جلسة : آليات وعمالء الحراك مدير/ة الجلسة: ابتسام الكتبي الغرفة: اليسار Jacques Kabbanji Maria Sottimano جاك )يعقوب( كبنجي ماريا سوتيمانو الحركات االجتماعية االحتجاجية في العالم العربي: جديدة وتغييرية Labour Organisations and the Changing Dynamics of Social Mobilization in the Middle East Hasan Obeid Driss Maghraoui AbdelKader Zghal حسن عبيد ادريس مغراوي الحركات اإلسالمية كحركات اجتماعية - دراسة مقارنة: االخوان المسلمون وحزب النور السلفي في مصر Subaltern Politics Vs Consensus Politics : The February 20th Movement in Morocco Penser la Révolution Tunisienne عبد القادر زغل Coffee Break 4:30-4:00 استراحة

5 9 Sessions :00-4:30 جلسات Roundtable: Researching Inequality, Mobility, and Development Speakers: Rami Daher, Ruba Salih, Abdel-Aziz Ezzelarab Room: Multimedia طاولة مستديرة : برنامج المنح حول الالمساواة والحراك و التنمية المتحدثون : رامي ضاهر ربى صالح عبد العزيز عز العرب الغرفة: Multimedia Basil Mahayni Kareem Rabie Luna Khirfan Nada Ghandour-Demiri Omar Al Shehabi Omar Dahi Omar Imseeh Tesdell Rula Abu Duhou Sahera Bleibleh Saker El Nour Samia Al-Botmeh & Linda Tabar باسل مهايني كريم ربيع لونا خرفان ندى غندور-ديميري عمر الشهابي عمر الضاحي عمر إمسيح تسدل رلى أبو دحو ساحرة بليبلة صقر النور سامية البطمة و ليندا طبر Water for the Poor? Understanding Dynamics of Water Governance in Neoliberal Amman Palestine is Holding a Party and the Whole World is Invited: Housing Development, Privatization, and the Production of the State in the West Bank A Contested Public Realm: Development, Inequality, and Mobility in Amman and Beirut NGO-ization, Disciplining Dissent and Increasing Inequality within Palestinian Popular Resistance Seas of Sand: Land Reclamation and the Urban Development of Bahrain Reconstructing Livelihoods among Syrian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: A Multifaceted Approach Territory, Environment, and the Politics of Palestinian Cultivation التنمية الالمساواة والحراكات الشعبية: نحو فتح افاق تنمية بديلة Humanitarian Effects: Assessing Social and Physical Inequalities in the Urban Space of Jenin Refugee Camp آليات النفاذ للموارد والحراك االجتماعي في الريف المصري: دراسة الستراتيجيات الفالحين ونموذج التنمية الزراعية بين إعادة اإلنتاج والتغيير علي خلفية الثورة Inequality and Social Mobility in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: Determinants and Impact

6 10 Session: Rural and Urban: Spaces of Resistance Chair: Abdenasser Djabi جلسة : الريف والمدينة: مجاالت المقاومة مدير/ة الجلسة: عبد الناصر جابي Sahera Bleibleh Hussein Boujarra Foued Ghorbali AbdelKader Latreche ساحرة بليبله حسين بوجرة فؤاد غربالي عبد القادر لطرش Walking Through Walls: The Invisible War بين تشريع الحق في التشك ي وتجريم الط عن في سياسات الدولة: قراءة في حركة بل دي ة تونس لشهر سبتمبر 1861 وفي انتفاضة الحوض المنجمي لقفصة جانفي/جويلية 2008 الثورة التونسية والمدينة :أي معنى سوسيولوجي للحركات اإلجتماعية بعد 14 جانفي 2011 التفاوتات بين الريف والمدينة والحراك الجديد في البلدان العربية 11 Session: Regional Economies, Resources, and Power Chair: Ragui Assaad Room: Ishtar جلسة : اإلقتصاد والموارد والقوى اإلقليمية مدير/ة الجلسة: راجي اسعد الغرفة: عشتار Hussein Boukara Nahla Mahmoud Max Ajl Luigi Carafa حسين بوقرة نهلة محمود ماكس أجل لويجي كرافا دور األطراف اإلقليمية في أحداث الربيع العربي: بين الرغبة في الزعامة اإلقليمية والقيام بوظيفة مناولة في السياسة الخارجية لقوى كبرى Saudi-Iranian Rivalry and the Political System in Egypt after the 25th Jan Revolution The Historical Origins of Modern Petropower Democratisation through the Back Door of Sectoral Cooperation: A Case study of Euro-Mediterranean Electricity Cooperation 12 Session: Politics and Changing Religious Identities Chair: Karim Makdisi Room: Elissar جلسة : السياسة والهويات الدينية المتغيرة مدير/ة الجلسة: كريم مقدسي الغرفة: اليسار Rima Majed Mai Mogib Catherine Orsborn Muzna Al Masri ريما ماجد مي مجيب كاثرين أورسبورن مزنة المصري From Political Protest to Sectarian Violence: A Sunni-Shiite split in Lebanon? عالقة الدولة بالمجتمع :الحراك المجتمعى المسيحى والصعود اإلسالمى بعد الثورات فى مصر وسوريا- دراسة مقارنة Egypt: Religious Identity in a Post-Colonial Climate New Players, Same Old Game: Versatility and Resilience of Political Clientelism

7 Day 2 March 20 Sessions جلسات اليوم الثاني - 20 آذار 10:30-9:00 13 Session: Nationalism, the State and Forms of Participation Chair: Linda Tabar جلسة : الوطنية والدولة وأشكال المشاركة مدير/ة الجلسة: ليندا طبر Mohamed Bamyeh Sherine El Traboulsi James Dorsey Kamal Mougheeth Ammar Djeffal محمد باميه شيرين طرابلسي جايمز دورسي كمال مغيث عمار دجفال الثورات العربية وطبيعة الوطنية الجديدة The Politics of Philanthropy: Sociopolitical Transitions and Shifts in Philanthropic Practices in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia Rooted in history: the politics of Middle Eastern and North African soccer المظاهرات والهتافات التى تغير مجتمعنا وال يعرفها علم االجتماع السياسى الجزائر بين االحتجاج االجتماعي المزمن و االنسداد السياسي المتواصل 14 Session: Violence, State and Society Chair: Lisa Hajjar Room: Ishtar جلسة : العنف بين الدولة والمجتمع مدير/ة الجلسة: ليسا حجار الغرفة: عشتار Younis Al-Rhaissi Hazem Masry and Amal Eid Munzoul Assal Nelly Ali يونس الغايسي حازم مصري وأمل عيد منزول عسل نللي علي الحراك "اإلرهابي" والحراك العربي: حين حيك الخوف من وراء ظهر الثورة - معالجة كوسموبوليتية لظاهرة اإلرهاب الثوري عربيا قراءة في الوضيفة الرمزية للعنف وعالقته بالحراك االجتماعي في المجتمع الجزائري - فئة االمازيغ نموذجا - The Armed Movements and the State in Darfur Street Children in Egypt and the Arab Spring: The Prevalence of Physical Violence Used by Old and New Regimes towards Children during times of Social Movements

8 15 Session: Governance and State Institutions Chair: Bassam Haddad Room: Elissar جلسة : الحوكمة ومؤسسات الدولة مدير/ة الجلسة: بسام حداد الغرفة: اليسار Bahaa Ezzelarab بهاء عزالعرب From Strategic Litigation to Social Action Litigation: Egyptian Courts and the Hierarchy of Rights ElSayed Ali ElSayed Mohamad Abo Farha السيد علي السيد محمد أبو فرحة المعارضة المصرية وآفاق التحول نحو المؤسسية في الديمقراطيات الناشئة: احتماالت ومسارات وتحديات المأسسة Dalia Assem داليا عاصم المركزية والالمركزية وأثرها على كفاءة المجتمع المدني ( دراسة عن تجارب حديثة في الواقع المصري بعد ثورة 25 يناير 2011 ( Mahmoud Hamad Moncef Guebsi The Judiciary and the New Political Order after the Arab Spring محمود حمد منصف جبسي ثورات الر بيع العربي" وإمكان التأسيس لعقد اجتماعي جديد محاولة تشخيص سوسيولوجي لمسار الثورة التونسية" Coffee Break 11:00-10:30 استراحة Keynote Session The Social Sciences and the Two Critiques Chair: Karim Makdisi Keynote Speaker: Ghassan Hage Closing Session Chair: Seteney Shami Commentators: Suad Joseph, Hania Sholkami, Tarek Sabry جلسة مفتاحية العلوم االجتماعية والنقدان السائدان رئيس الجلسة: كريم مقدسي المتحدث الرئيسي: غسان الحاج جلسة ختامية رئيس الجلسة: ستناي شامي المعقبين: سعاد جوزيف هانيه شلقامي طارق صبري 12:15-11:00 1:30-12:30 Conference Adjourns انتهاء المؤتمر Lunch Break 2:30-1:30 استراحة الغذاء

9 ACSS General Assembly Meeting اجتماع الجمعية العمومية للمجلس العربي للعلوم االجتماعية 6:00-2:30 Chair of Assembly: Rahma Bourqia رئيسة االجتماع: رحمه بورقيه Session 1: Reports of the Board of Trustees General Discussion Session 2: Horizons of Collaboration in the Social Sciences: Arab and International Experiences Codesria: Ebrima Sall Egyptian Council for the Social Sciences: Said El Masri Alexandria Trust: David French Jadaliyya: Bassam Haddad الجلسة االولى : تقارير مجلس االمناء نقاش عام الجلسة الثانية : ا فاق التعاون في العلوم االجتماعية: تجارب عربية وعالمية كوديسريا: ابريما سال المجلس المصري للعلوم االجتماعية : سعيد المصري وديعة االسكندرية : دافيد فرنش جدلية : بسام حداد 3:30-2:30 4:15-3:30 Coffee Break 4:30-4:15 استراحة Session 3: Elections of the New Board of Trustees GA Adjourned- followed by a short meeting of the New Board of Trustees الجلسة الثالثة: انتخابات مجلس األمناء الجديد رفع الجلسة يليه إجتماع مصغر لمجلس األمناء المنتخب 6:00-4:30

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