Conference on Framing: Rethinking Arab Family ... - Dr. Suad Joseph

The Arab Families Working Group
<strong>Conference</strong> on Framings: Rethinking Arab Family Projects
in Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine
Friday March 16
Shepheard Hotel, Cairo
7:00-10:00 Reception and Dinner
SHEPHEARD HOTEL CAIRO
PROGRAM
Saturday March 17
Shepheard Hotel, Cairo
Nefertiti Meeting Room, 10 th Floor
9:00 Welcome: Provost Tim Sullivan
American University in Cairo
9:10 Introduction: Arab Families Working Group:
Suad Joseph, University of California, Davis
9:30-11:30 Panel I: Youth and Families
Chair: Sherine Hafez, American University in Cairo
1. A Genealogy of the Concept of Youth: Emergent Discourses
Omnia El Shakry, University of California, Davis
2. Pathways to Participation: Youth and Service in Egypt
Barbara Ibrahim, American University in Cairo
3. In the Red Glow: Upper Class Lebanese Birthday Parties as Rites of
Virtual Passage
Kirsten Scheid, American University of Beirut
Disussant: Ragui Assaad
11:30-12:00 Break
12:00-2:00 Panel II: Nation and Family
Chair and Discussant: Barbara Harlow, American University in Cairo
1. Palestinian Youth: Construction of desires, Imaginaries in Different Social
Contexts
Eileen Kuttab, Birzeit University
Randa Nasser, Birzeit University
2. Representations of Gender Relations in the Literature of the 1990s
Hoda ElSadda, Manchester University
3. From Contract to Crisis: Marriage and the Egyptian Natural Family, 1919-1952
Lisa Pollard, University of North Carolina
2:00-3:00 Lunch

3:00-5:00 Panel III: Moving In History
Chair: Ann Lesch, American University of Cairo
1. Weddings and War
Penny Johnson, Birzeit University, Annelies Moors, ISIM
2. Group Weddings Between Economic Hardship, Secularism, and
Islamization
Islah Jad, Birzeit University
3. Planning the Future
Martina Rieker, American University in Cairo
4. Historical Trajectories of Domestic Workers in Lebanon
Ray Jureidini, American University in Cairo
Sunday March 18
9:30-11:30 Panel IV: Family, Media, Law, Citizenship
Chair: Amr Shalakany, American University in Cairo
1. Transnationalism and Family Projects
Suad Joseph, University of California, Davis
2. Islamic Law and the Family: Property Relations in Legal Discourse and
Practice
Judith Tucker, Georgetown University
3. Embodied Happiness: The Politics of Marriage and Consumption in
Egyptian Media
Farha Ghannam, Swathmore College, Visiting Fellow AUC
Discussant: Hania Sholkamy, American University in Cairo
11:30-12:00 Break
12:00-2:00 Panel V: Families and the Politics of Poverty
Chair: Ray Jureidini, American University in Cairo
1. Displaced Arab Families: Coping and Changes in Post-war Beirut
Jihad Makhoul, American University of Beirut
2. Costs of Coping with Poverty in Rural Egypt
Reem Saad, Social Research Center, American University in Cairo
3. The Financial Burdens of Marriage: Familial and Youth Strategies, Social
Anxieties, and Marriage Substitutes
Diane Singerman, American University, Washington DC
Discussant: Hoda Rashad, American University in Cairo
2:00-3:00 LUNCH
3:00-5:00 Panel VI: Families, Displacement, and Migration
Chair: Zeina Zaatari, National Council of Arab Americans/Global Fund for Women
1. Male Migration and Feminization of the Lebanese Family
Mona Khalaf, Lebanese American University
2. War, Diasporas and Reproduction of Middle Class and Educated Elites
Ibrahim Elnur, American University in Cairo
Discussant: Philippe Fargues, American University in Cairo