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#MESA2017DC Guide of After Said at 5pm

#MESA17DC Guide of After Said at 5pm

Here is a guide for #fresh scholarship being presented at the 2017 Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting. We compiled a list of panels on the cultures and representations of the MENA. We limited our suggestions to two panels per time slot. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram for hourly updates from the Saturday and Sunday sessions of #MESA2017DC. If you think your panel should also be in this list, let us know! If it is not a manel (a panel consisting of only male academics), we will add it up here.

Anything underlined in this guide is hyperlinked to the MESA Program Website, so feel free to click on the panels, presentations, or presenter profiles for more information.

Any questions, suggestions, remarks? Send us a message on FB or email us at [email protected]

Saturday November 18

4pm

Undergraduate Research Poster Session

This session looks promising in terms of #fresh scholarship from up and coming scholars in the field. After Said at 5pm followers will especially like these posters:

Representations of the Middle East and Islam in U.S. Public High School Education by Melissa Levinson

The Art of Exclusion: Selective Immigration Practices and Authoritarian Resilience in Bahrain by Nalini Ramachandran

Saturday November 18

5.30pm

[P4969] Music and Politics "min al-Mashriq ila al-Maghrib"

▪ A Tale of Two Protectorates: Cultural Hegemony in Colonial Morocco and Its Impact on Indigenous Musics by Chami, Hicham

▪ Echoes of the Maghreb: Modernity, Empire, and the Fez Congress of Moroccan Music by Matsushita, Elizabeth

▪ Political Resistance and Nationalism: Women Singers in Lebanon Defying the Drums of War by Moufarrej, Guilnard

▪ Hearing Pyrrhic Victory in Lebanon’s 2015 Protests by Nickell, Christopher

▪ The Arab Diaspora and Collaborative Hip-Hop: Globalized and Localized Identity Formation by Shuffield, Garrett

[P4988] Anxieties, Resistances, and the Clergy in Egyptian and Iranian Film

▪ Maslaha: a Film Sanctioning Apparatus or a Covert Censorship? by Arafa, Heba

▪ “Ode au Monde”: The Emergence of Iranian New Wave Cinema and the Problematic of National Identity by Faridi, Maziyar

▪ News of the Nation: Mohamed Bayoumi’s Newsfilms in the Newly Independent Egypt, 1923-1935 by Ghawanmeh, Mohannad

▪ A Nightmare on Valiasr Street: Persian-Language Diasporic Horror Films and the Cultural Capital of "Iranian" Cinema by Houck, Kelly

▪ Islamic Republic’s Treatment of Confusing Signifiers: The Curious Case of Marmulak by Tabarraee, Babak

Sunday November 19

8am

[P4985] Visual Engagement: Between the Self and the Nation

▪ Reproducing the Real: Reviving the Discourse of Sacred Defense in "Standing in the Dust" by Khadem, Amir

▪ Religiosity and Emotionality in Iranian Theatre: (Re)presentations and Interventions by Moosavi, Marjan

▪ Contemporary art production and the ambivalence of nation-building in the United Arab Emirates by Sindelar, Melanie Janet

[P5004] Making the Modern: the Politics of Heritage

▪ Kuwait National Museum: Architectural Historiography and the Changing Ethos of Modernism by El Hayek, Chantal

▪ Making Islam Modern: Heritage and Worship in 1950s Turkey by Hammond, Timur

▪ An Artist Curating Islamic Heritage: Ali Jabri and the Jordan Museum of Popular Traditions by Rauh, Elizabeth

▪ Tracing Syrian Folk Dance: A Critical Assessment of Ibn Dhurayl’s Anthology of Raqs al-Semah and Dabke by Silverstein, Shayna

Sunday November 19

10am

[P4811] Presenting and Representing Iran in Museum Collections and Exhibitions

▪ Exhibiting Iranian Art in the 21st Century by Canby, Sheila R.

▪ Ninety Years of Presenting Iranian Art at The Textile Museum by Krody, Sumru Belger

▪ The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art by Komaroff, Linda

▪ The Iranian Exhibition Program at the Aga Khan Museum 2016-2017 by Cakir Phillip, Filiz

[P4812] Tourism, Heritage, and the Politics of Place in the Middle East

▪ Constructing the "Arab Tourist": Leisure and Mobility through/in/of Lebanon, 1920-1970s by Sbaiti, Nadya J.

▪ Building and Breaking Ties: Political Tourism in Israel/Palestine by Schneider, Emily

▪ Islamic tourism in Jordan: heritage policies, paths and itineraries since the 1980’s by Neveu, Norig

▪ Heritage tourism versus Leisure Tourism in Post- 2011 Egypt: Notes about crisis management, resilience and strategic choices by Gamblin, Sandrine

▪ The Re-formed City: Urban Rehabilitation, Conservation, and Reclamation in Post-Revolution Cairo by Panetta, Claire

Sunday November 19

1pm

[P4959] Implicated Digital Transitions in the MENA Region

▪ Incongruent Collaborations: The Advertising Industry and Politics of Underground Music in Egypt by Abdelmagid, Yakein

▪ The Double Work of Behavioral Advertising in Turkey: Imaging and Branding by Atici, S. Gokce

▪ Transitional Differentiation in Urban and Digital Crowds: Reassessing the Place of Hay Ettadhamon, Tunis by Said, Karem Irene

[P4962] The Gulf: Visualizing the National Narrative

▪ The “Desert” in Expo Milano: Traditions of Architecture Practices in the Making of a “Legitimate” National-Identity by Alkandari, Amina

▪ Theater as Nation: Nationalism as Promoted by Kuwaiti Theatrical Productions by Almubaraki, Shaikhah

▪ Matams, Ashura, and Muharaam: examining counter national narratives in Bahrain by Williams, Ashleen

Sunday November 19

3.30pm

[P4832] The Cultural Politics of Violence

▪ Simulating the Contact Zone: Corporate Mediations of Violence in Israel, Palestine and Beyond by Lee, Shimrit

▪ Violence, Deviancy and Police Masculinity in Contemporary Egypt by Farquhar, Michael

▪ Terrors of Translation: Ottoman Crime Fiction and the Politics of Fear by Scott Deuchar, Hannah

▪ Un/Making the Mu’taqal: Towards a Cultural Economy of Political Imprisonment in Egypt by Elsisi, Hannah

[C5033] Evaluating Digital Scholarship - Proposed guidelines for MESA

▪ As an Ottoman historian with a prior life as a Middle East librarian, I take the long view on the efficacy... by Virginia Aksan

▪ It has never been entirely clear to me why scholarship in the digital humanities should pose challenges... by Elias Muhanna

▪ The growing volume and popularity of digital scholarship have created both challenges and opportunities... by E. Natalie Rothman

▪ Evaluating scholarship that employs digital methodologies and tools of analysis does not pose any great... by Chris Gratien

Sunday November 19

6pm

[S5054] Special Presidential Panel: MESA, ACLU and the Muslim Ban

Participants: Beth Baron (City University of New York), Asli Bali (UCLA), Cody Wofsy (ACLU)

On March 10, 2017, MESA joined the ACLU and other partner organizations and individuals in a federal lawsuit challenging President Trump's second Muslim ban executive order (International Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump). The case made its way through the federal courts and was placed onto the U.S. Supreme Court docket, but the appeal was dismissed as moot after the expiration of the partial travel ban the Supreme Court allowed to go into effect over the summer. The Trump administration issued a new presidential proclamation imposing a ban on eight countries (Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, and Venezuela) with no expiration date. MESA and its fellow plaintiffs challenged this third version as well, and on October 17 the judge blocked it from going into full effect. The government has now appealed that ruling. Cody Wofsy (Staff Attorney, ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project) joins MESA President Beth Baron (City College and Graduate Center, CUNY) and Asli Bali (UCLA School of Law), for a discussion about the administration’s effort to ban travel from certain countries and its impact on higher education.

Monday November 20

8am

[P4919] Contemporary Political Art of the Middle East

▪ Iconographic Battle: Visual Responses to Rab’a Massacre by Khalil, Nama

▪ Capitalism and Conservatism: the Transformation of Ramallah in Inass Yassin’s Cinema Waleed Project by Crasnow, Sascha

▪ Chouftouhonna: A Tunisian Feminist Art Festival Making Space for the Queer Imaginary by Butler, Anne Marie

▪ Towards a Local Queer Aesthetics: Nilbar Güres’s Photography and Female Homoerotic Intimacy by Ula, Duygu

[P4912] Liminal Urbanity: Cities Between Ruin and Prosperity

▪ The Afterlives of Abadan: Spatial and Temporal Disjunctures in an Iranian Oil City by Houshyar, Shima

▪ Destabilizing Regional Frontiers: Mobility, Cosmopolitanism and Belonging in Karachi by Husain, Zehra

▪ Between nostalgia and futures-otherwise: Performances of memory in Lebanon’s railway ruins by Sajadian, China

▪ Shifting Mobility Regimes and Labor Migration in Post-Communist and Europeanizing Kardzhali by Corak, Hazal

Monday November 20

10.30am

[R4921] Material Politics in the Middle East

▪ My contribution will focus on what we can learn from examining various attempts to increase irrigated... by Elizabeth Williams

▪ In my comments, I will offer five observations, extrapolated from the case of Mandate Palestine’s electric... by Fredrik Meiton

▪ In my comments I will discuss the ways in which infrastructure planning and public service provision... by Joanne Nucho

▪ My comments focus on land reform in Cold War Turkey as a central site of statecraft and modernization.... by Begum Adalet

[P4834] Narratives of Struggle: Maintaining and Preserving Kurdish Cultural Heritage

▪ Is there a “Kurdish” dish?: Exploring the effects of aid and internal displacement on culturally cohesive concepts of food in Iraqi Kurdistan by Tribble, Anna

▪ Reclaiming Kurdish Dress as Political Struggle by Isik, Ruken

▪ Rebuilding the City or a Museum Left in Ruins? Mapping Heritage in Post-Displacement Reconstruction Plans for Kobani by McGee, Thomas

▪ The City of Kermanshan, the Site of Cultural Rebellion and Rebirth by Sharifi, Amir

▪ The Struggle Within: Documenting the Kurdish Experience in Binghamton by De Rouen, Aynur

Monday November 20

1pm

[P4747] Negotiating Gender and Morality in the Ottoman First World War

▪ “Licensed Microbes:” Public Morality, Gender, and Prostitution in Ottoman Istanbul during and after the World War I by Yilmaz, Secil

▪ ‘Karmal Allah Send Me Ten Lira’: Women, Migration, and World War I in Mount Lebanon by Pitts, Graham Auman

▪ Waging Reform: Law and Gender in the Ottoman First World War by Dannies, Kate

▪ “Ever in Need of Safeguarding”: Gender and Violence in Ottoman Anatolia, 1914-1918 by Hock, Stefan

[C4965] Middle East Feminist and Queer Studies: State of the Field

▪ How is new scholarship from Asia and Africa reshaping women, gender and sexuality studies? During the... by Miriam Cooke

▪ I will discuss some of the newer questions and approaches we find in submitted manuscripts as well as... by Frances S. Hass

▪ My comments will focus on the new trends and directions I see in the essays and research articles we... by Banu Gokariksel

▪ As editor for the reviews section, my contribution will include a brief survey of trends in book publishing... by Amy Kallander

▪ As Managing Editor, I will focus my comments on the themes and methodologies that emerge across disciplines,... by Rachel Greenspan

Monday November 20

3.30pm

[P4915] Blackness in the Middle East: a Comparative Perspective

▪ Afrocentrism, Orientalism and Other Pitfalls of Studying the Swahili: New Thoughts on an Old Problem by Mathews, Nathaniel

▪ Buying and Selling Blackface: Theatrical Anti-Blackness in Pahlavi Era Iran, 1930-1965 by Baghoolizadeh, Beeta

▪ Dana Bayrami Festival: Forging Solidarity through Afro-Turkish Identity in Modern Turkey by Wingham, Zavier

▪ The Gender of That Which Might Be Called Blackness: Reading the Arap Baci/Kizi within Turkish Popular Culture by Willoughby, Mayowa

[P4862] The Beast in Image, Text and Politics

▪ The Ghoul: Mythical Creature, Political Practice, Digital Condition by El-Ariss, Tarek

▪ Zombie Publics and Leviathan Regimes: Literary Figuration and Political Affect in Recent Egyptian Fiction by Koerber, Benjamin

▪ Representing 'al-Fil' [The Elephant] by Malas, Khaled

▪ Animal Reason; Human Compulsion by Miller, Jeannie

[P4976] Women and Leadership: Past and Present

▪ The Public Presence of Mamluk Princesses by Stephan, Tara

▪ Women and Secular Opposition Parties in Islamist-Dominated Political Systems by Fischer, Sarah

▪ Female Religious Authority and Islamic Feminist “Counterpublic” in Turkey: The Case of Rifai Shaykha Cemalnur Sargut by Burak Adli, Feyza

Tuesday November 21

8am

[P4823] Imagery in Jewish Morocco

▪ Picturing the Mellah: Joseph Bouhsira and Moroccan Jewish Photography by Goldsworthy, Patricia M.

▪ Captives of the Mellah?: Moroccan Rural Jewry in the Colonial Postcard by Boum, Aomar

▪ Documents of Diaspora: The Boccaras in Ntifa, 1971/2011 by Chubb, Emma

▪ Saints in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Religious Icons in Jewish Morocco by Kosansky, Oren

[R4929] Social Media, Feminist Praxis, and State Power

▪ Feminist approaches to social media visualizations and 3D modeling of Twitter and Internet data from... by VJ Um Amel

▪ Beginning 2004, the open source movement in Arabic grew rapidly and tremendously. A group of Arabic... by Manal Hassan

▪ Discussions of internet freedom often posit Western principles and practices as ideals, fixate on state... by Lisa Parks

Tuesday November 21

10.30am

[C5040] Reading Middle Eastern Literatures Comparatively

▪ Literature Inside/Outside --- Reading literature of Iran and Iranian Diaspora in a transnational context.... by Persis Karim

▪ For this conversation, I examine literary histories in various languages, such as Arabic, German, and... by Ceylan Ceyhun Arslan

[P4933] Art and Mediation: Affective and Socio-political Practices of Revolutionary Challenges

▪ Cynicism and Sorrow in Syrian Art After the Uprising by Farhat, Maymanah

▪ Aesthetics of Crisis in the Arab World – Epistemologies of Connectivity in Documentary Modes of the Real by Gaafar, Rania

▪ The Subjective Turn in Contemporary Egyptian Art by Singh, Surti

▪ Media Sousveillance on its Back by Um Amel, VJ

Tuesday November 21

1pm

[P4886] Colonialism and Culinary Cultures in the Middle East and North Africa

▪ Tea, Sugar, and Rural Consumers in Colonial Morocco by Cornwell, Graham

▪ “Art Couscous”: Chewing on the Colonial Experience by Durmelat, Sylvie

▪ Mother Sauces and Civilizing Processes: Writing Cuisine in Egypt and Morocco by Gaul, Anny

▪ “They do drink tea, just not like us”: Imperial Japan, perceptions of tea drinkers in the Middle East and North Africa, and expanding global markets during WWII by Hammond, Kelly

[P4895] Practices of Translation in the Ottoman and Safavid Empires

▪ The Ottoman Turkish Translation of History of Shah Abbas the Great by Bozgan, Elif

▪ Scholarly Interest or Enemy Studies? Ottoman Turkish Translations of Arabic and Persian Chronicles in the 16th to 18th Centuries by Bockholt, Philip

▪ In Search of Originality: Hamsa of Nevizade Atayi by Akyol, Ercan

▪ The Translation of Non-Shi‘ite Works in Safavid Iran by Unal, Yusuf

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