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(2832) From Printing Press
to the Digital Age: Exploring
Armenian Book Production
from the Early Modern Period
to the Present
Organized by Tamar Marie Boyadjian
Sponsored by
Society for Armenian Studies
Chair: Tamar Marie Boyadjian, UCLA
Discussant: Sergio La Porta, CSU Fresno
Sebouh Aslanian, CSU Long Beach–
From Venice to Istanbul, Surat, and
Madras: Reflections on Armenian
Printing History
Nanor Kebranian, Columbia U–Making
Sense of Ottoman Censorship: The Politics
of Ottoman-Armenian Print Culture
Talar Chahinian, CSU Long Beach–Lost
in Publication: The Incongruous Life of a
Literary Work in the Armenian Diaspora
(2844) Change and Continuity
in Middle East Politics
Organized by Sean Yom
Chair/Discussant: Nathan J. Brown,
George Washington U
Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern U–
Emigration and Power: The Case of Lebanon
Ariel I. Ahram, U of Oklahoma–War and
State Formation in the Middle East: Pax
Asiatica and Bella Levantina Revisited
Sean Yom, Temple U–The Monotony of
Monarchy: Diffuse Power and Opposition
Traps in the Arab World
Pete W. Moore, Case Western Reserve
U–Act Three: Return of the Modernized
“Moslem”
(2888) Transnational Schooling
in the Middle East and Beyond
Chair: Devrim Umit, Karabuk U
Abigail Boggs, UC Davis–Exceptional
Inclusions in American Futurity:
International Students and U.S. Higher
Education
Louise A. Cainkar, Marquette U–“Half/
Half”: The Experiences of Palestinian
American Teens Brought Back “Home”
for High School
u Page 30 MESA 2011 Preliminary Program
8:30-10:30AM Saturday December 3
Sanaa Riaz, Arkansas State U–Private
Islamic Schools in Egypt and Pakistan:
Beyond Fundamentalism?
Nassim Abdi Dezfooli, U of Maryland–A
Portrait of Practitioners’ Understanding
and the Use of Freirean Pedagogy in a
Summer Camp for Girls in Iran
Cara Lane, American U in Cairo–Factors
Influencing an Increase in the U.S. Study
Abroad Population in the Middle East/
North Africa
(2901) Intellectuals and Their
Impact on the Middle East
Chair: Noor-Aiman Khan, Colgate U
Madeleine Elfenbein, U of Chicago–
The Spirit of Şerī’at: Namık Kemal at
the Intersection of Islamic and French
Enlightenment Thought
Shuang Wen, Georgetown U–Mediated
Imaginations: The First Sino-Japanese
War (1894-95) in the Eyes of Arab
Intellectuals
Derya Göçer Akder, LSE (PhD) and
Funda Hulagu, Middle East Technical
U–Communist Intellectuals in the
Late Ottoman/Early Republican Era in
Turkey: An International Perspective
Angela Giordani, U of Texas–From the
Mithaq to the Shari’a: Tariq Al-Bishri
and the Islamist Reorientation of Arab
Nationalism
Fernando Carvajal, U of Exeter–Imamic
Yemen’s Sacred National Charter (1948):
Failed Interpretations of an Established
Social Compact
(2953) Spatial Temporal and
Textual Geographies in the
Ottoman Empire
Chair: Vefa Erginbas, Ohio State U
Semi Ertan, U of Michigan–On the
Urban Geography of Seventeenth
Century Ottoman Istanbul: Boundaries
and Politics of Coexistence in Eremya
Chelebi Komurcuyan (1637-1694)
Nir Shafir, UCLA–Verifying Sainthood:
Abd Al-Ghani Al-Nabulusi’s 17th Century
Travelogue in Light of the Kadizadeli
Movement
Timothy J. Fitzgerald, James Madison U–
Literacy, Law, and Empire in the 15th-16th-
Century Eastern Mediterranean World
Fatih Kursun, U of Chicago–Sultans
and Prophets: The Politics of Calendar
Writing during the Time of Bayezid II
(1481-1512)
Thematic
Conversation
(2956) Sources and Resources
on Middle Eastern Americans
Organized by Anny Bakalian
Session Leader: Jonathan Friedlander,
UCLA (Retired)
Akram Khater, North Carolina State U
Mehdi Bozorgmehr, CUNY Graduate
Center
Anny Bakalian, CUNY Graduate Center
(2964) Shahnameh: Literary
Perspectives for a New
Millenium, Part I
Organizer: Franklin D. Lewis
Dick Davis, Ohio State U–Ferdowsi’s
Choices and What They Imply
Kevin Gledhill, U of Chicago–The Royal
Legitimacy of Ardashir I and Ferdowsi’s
Approach to Sasanian Sources
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, Stanford
U–Retelling the Shahnameh: Fourteenth-
Century Poetic Reconfigurations of
Jamshid
(2966) Tweeting the Revolution:
Literature, Media, and the
Postcolonial End, Part I
Organized by Moneera Al-Ghadeer and
Tarek El-Ariss
Chair: Muhsin J. Al-Musawi, Columbia U
Tarek El-Ariss, UT Austin–Digital
Activism: Arabic Literature and the New
Political
Moneera Al-Ghadeer, Qatar U–
Tweeting the Revolution in Literary
Sites
Muhsin J. Al-Musawi, Columbia U–
The Interchangeable Dissent/Internet:
What Theoretical Referents for Popular
Revolutions?
Hatim El-Hibri, NYU–Blind Spots, or,
the Cultural Logic of the Visbility of the
2011 Uprisings