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(2874) Anthropology (of Sound)
in the Middle East and North
Africa: A New Millennium, Part I
Organized by Deborah A. Kapchan
Chair: Deborah A. Kapchan, New York U
Galeet Dardashti, Purchase Col SUNY–
Listening for “Peace”: Middle Eastern
Music in Israel during the 2000s
Amy Horowitz, Ohio State U–Scholarly
Compositions: Writing across Sound
Barriers and Resolutions in Israel-
Palestine
John Schaefer, American U in Cairo–
Wired for Sound: State and Corporate
Interests in Moroccan Folk Music
Jeanette S. Jouili, Cornell U–New
Islamic Soundscapes and Contested
Modes of Listening: The Case of Britain’s
Contemporary Islamic Cultural Scene
Ted Swedenburg, U of Arkansas–The
Sounds of Palestinian Rap and Algerian
Rai
(2886) Memories and Histories
of Turkey
Hande Ozkan, Yale U–Historicizing
Forests, Naturalizing History: State
Forestry in Modern Turkey
Michael Ferguson, McGill U–The
Emergence of an “Afro-Turk” Identity
since 2005
Erkan Ercel, York U–Encountering Loss
and Nostalgia: Turkey on the Way to
Becoming European
Nagihan Haliloglu, Independent
Scholar–Ceci N’est Pas Un Chapeau: Remembering
Turkey’s Hat Revolution of
1925
2:30-4:30PM Saturday December 3
(2891) Political Economy of the
Arab World
Chair: Melani Cammett, Brown U
Sang Hyun Song, U of Utah–Saudization
and Rentierism
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, London
School of Economics–‘Global
Governance’ or the ‘Governance of
Globalization’?: Gulf States’ Perspectives
on Global Engagement
Karen Pfeifer, Smith Col–The
Investment Dimension of Growth and
Crisis in the Arab East in the 2000s
(2897) The Uses of Arabic:
Language and Linguistics in the
Middle East
Chair: Kifah Hanna, Trinity Col
Ayesha Kamal, U of Kent–‘Liberints’
and ‘Deenatics’: An Exploration of How
Kuwait University Students Creatively
Manipulate Language to Express Their
Identity
Brahim Chakrani, Michigan State U–
Modernity and Its Impact on Language
Attitudes of Youth in Morocco
Mandy Terc, U of Michigan–“Class A
Talks English”: Linguistic Choice and
Social Inequality in Damascus
Rehemma Asmi, Columbia U–Qatar’s
Arabic Catch-22: An Arab(ic) Revival
with an English Twist
(2904) Environment and
Agriculture: From Mauritania
to Antolia
Sharif S. Elmusa, American U in Cairo–
The Ecological Bedouin: Ibn Khaldun and
Desert Literature
Onur Inal, U of Arizona–“King Cotton”
Visits the Levant: Western Anatolia
during the American Civil War
Evan R. Murphy, U of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign–The Development
of Egyptian Agricultural Practice and
Science, 1882-1936
Kay Moseley, Independent Scholar–
Water, Wells and Social Structure: The
Oasis Towns of Mauritania
Anne Clement, Harvard U–Fallahin on
Trial in Colonial Egypt: Apprehending
the Peasantry through Orality, Writing
and Performance (1884-1914)
Lina Eklund, Lund U–Environmental
Migration in the Middle East: Mapping
History, Present and Future using GIS
and Spatial Modeling
(2911) Islamic Legal Formations
from the Mamluks to the
Present Law
Chair: Carter V. Findley, Ohio State U
Lev Weitz, Princeton U–‘He Has Gone
on a Long Journey’: Wives, Disappeared
Husbands, and East Syrian Law in
Abbasid Iraq
Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim, Georgetown
U–Al-Shaˋrani’s Al-Mizān: A Relativist
Approach to Sunni Legal Pluralism
Kursad U. Akpinar, Bilkent U–Ottoman
Fetvas in the Kadi Court Registers
Bethany J. Walker, Missouri State
U–Seeking Justice on the Mamluk
Frontier: The Formal and Informal
Legal Institutions of Late Medieval
Transjordan
Ilona Gerbakher, Harvard Divinity
School–Female Intellect in 20th Century
Jewish and Islamic Legal Thought: A
Comparative Perspective
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