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(2801) Imagining Community:
Approaches to the Polity in
Medieval Islamic Tradition
Organized by Mona Hassan
Chair: Yahya Michot, Hartford
Seminary
Abbas Barzegar, Georgia State
U–The Discourse of Al-Jama’a: A
Reconsideration of Orthodoxy and
Historical Imagination
Mona Hassan, Duke U–Mapping
Competing Notions of Caliphate and
Community in the Thirteenth and
Fourteenth Centuries
Ovamir Anjum, U of Toledo–Ibn
Taymiyya’s Recovery of the Community
in Islamic Political Tradition
Junaid Quadri, McGill U–Cultivating
Morality in the Islamic Polis: The Role of
Communal Leadership
(2802) Making History: People
Power in Egypt
Organized by Dina Bishara and Holger
Albrecht
Chair: Lisa Anderson, American U in
Cairo
Discussant: Eva Bellin, Brandeis U
Dina Bishara, George Washington U–
Interest vs. Discourse: Making Sense of
Mass Protests in Egypt
Samer Soliman, American U in Cairo–
The Class Basis of the January 25
Uprising
Ellis Goldberg, U of Washington–
Thinking about Identity in the Egyptian
Revolution
Holger Albrecht, American U in Cairo–
Raging against the Machine: Popular
Protest and Authoritarian Regime
Change in Egypt
11AM-1PM Friday December 2
(2908) Topics on Central Asian
History
Chair: Kevin Gray, U of Toronto
Robert Haug, U of Cincinnati–From City
of Merchants to City of Murābiṭūn: The
Origins of Baykand’s 1,000 Ribāṭs
Renat Shaykhutdinov, Florida Atlantic
U–State Response toward Religious
Revivalism in Tatarstan
Bernadette Andrea, UT San Antonio–
Ivan the Terrible’s Massacres of Central
Asian Tatars and Early Modern English
Responses
Maziar Behrooz, San Francisco State
U–Conflict in the Caucasus: A Military
Perspective on Russo-Iranian Wars
(2817) Issues in Contemporary
Turkish Cinema
Organized by Burcu Karahan
Supported by
The Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in
Islamic Studies and the Mediterranean
Forum at Stanford University
Chair: Burcu Karahan, Stanford U
Iren N. Ozgur, Princeton U–Changing
Representations of Islamists in Turkish
Cinema
Pelin Basci, Portland State U–Gender
and Memory in the Films By Tomris
Giritlioğlu and Yeşim Ustaoğlu
Suncem Kocer, Indiana U–Representations
of Kurds and the Kurdish Issue in
Turkish Cinema Worlds
Evren Ozselcuk, York U–Politics and
Aesthetics of the Provincial (‘Taşra’) in
Contemporary Turkish Cinema
(2835) Urban Politics of Mass
Consumption in Egypt and
Saudi Arabia
Organized by Pascal Menoret and Relli
I. Shechter
Relli I. Shechter, Ben-Gurion U–Catch-
Up Material Culture: Consumer Anxiety
in the Making of Neo-Conservative Saudi
Socio-Politics during the First Oil Boom,
c. 1973-1983
Marika Snider, U of Utah–Street
Vendors and Urban Politics in Egypt
Nancy Y. Reynolds, Washington U in St.
Louis–Egyptian Consumption “After the
Dam”
Pascal Menoret, Harvard U/NYU–
Consumption and Contention in Saudi
Arabia
(2878) Issues in Teaching
Arabic as a Foreign Language
Organized by Elsa Elmahdy
Supported by
American University in Cairo
Chair: Elsa Elmahdy, American U in
Cairo
Mona Attwa, American U in Cairo–
Arabizi and ECA Vocabulary Acquisition
Randa Muhammed, American U in
Cairo–Youth Language in Cyberspace: An
Exploratory Study on Arabic Language
Usage on Facebook and the Impact of
National Identity on this Usage before,
during and after the Revolution of
January 25th
Sanaa Abou-Ras, American U in Cairo–
The Effect of Teaching Arabic on the
Attitude of Egyptian-Nubian Children
Elsa Elmahdy, American U in Cairo–
Discrepancies in Native and Non-Native
Production: The Active Participle in
Modern Standard Arabic
Haitham Mohamed, American U in
Cairo–Acting as a Method of Learning a
Foreign Language: A Study on Egyptian
Colloquial Arabic
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