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(2612) Coming of Age: Rethinking
Youth and Childhood in the
Middle East and North Africa
Organized by Kristin V. Monroe and
Rania Kassab Sweis
Chair: Kristin V. Monroe, U of Kentucky
Elif Babul, Stanford U–Protecting and
Overlooking: Juvenile Justice System and
Children’s Rights Trainings in Turkey
Aomar Boum, U of Arizona–“Net-
Intifada”: Moroccan Youth, Cyberspaces,
and the Palestinian Conflict
Jared McCormick, Harvard U–Becoming
Beiruti: Syrian Migrant Youth Coming of
Age in Lebanon
Shayna Silverstein, U of Chicago–New
Movements, Old Forms: Contesting
Youth and Belonging in Syrian Popular
Culture
Rania Kassab Sweis, Stanford U–
Healing the Poor Child’s Mind:
Psychiatric Humanitarianism and the
Transnational Management of Street
Children in Neoliberal Egypt
Roundtable
(2626) The Spatial Turn
in Middle East Studies:
Interdisciplinary Methods and
Approaches
Organized by Amy Mills
Chair: Amy Mills, U of South Carolina
Carel Bertram, San Francisco State U
Anna Secor, U of Kentucky
Susan Gilson Miller, UC Davis
Maureen Jackson, Carleton Col
Mona Hassan, Duke U
Faedah Totah, Virginia Commonwealth U
Luna Khirfan, U of Waterloo
Banu Gokariksel, UNC Chapel Hill
Berna Turam, Northeastern U
Marika Snider, U of Utah
5-7PM Saturday December 3
(2717) Media(ting) Otherness:
Visual Representations of
“Islam” and “the West” in the
Post-9/11 Era
Organized by Eid Mohamed
Chair: Amal Amireh, George Mason U
Edith Szanto, U of Toronto–“That
Which Your Right Hands Possess”:
Liberation, Otherness, and Religion in a
Syrian Soap Opera
Eid Mohamed, George Washington
U–Occidental Fear of Unknown East:
America in an Egyptian 9/11 Movie
Waleed Mahdi, U of Minnesota–Re-
Imagining Arab Americans in Film: A
Reconciliatory Model
Syed Adnan Hussain, U of Toronto–Are
the “Bad Muslims” Speaking Back?:
America’s Othering of Islam in South
Asian Cinema
(2725) Rethinking Public
Violence in Modern Middle
Eastern Cities
Organized by Nelida Fuccaro
Chair: Hanan H. Hammad, Texas
Christian U
Discussant: Peter Sluglett, National U of
Singapore
Roberto Mazza, Western Illinois U–Re-
Shaping the Holy City: The Nebi Musa
Riots in 1920
Nelida Fuccaro, SOAS, U of London–
Understanding Violence in an Oil City:
Kirkuk, 1927-1959
Rasmus Christian Elling, SOAS, U
of London–Roots of Ressentiment:
Repression, the State and Oil Power in
Abadan, 1929-46
Zeynep Turkyilmaz, Dartmouth Col–
Mutiny and Reorder or “Cleansing the
Capital”?: The 31 March Incidents and
the Hareket Ordusu in Istanbul
Ulrike Freitag, ZMO Berlin–Symbolic
Politics and Urban Violence in Late
Ottoman Jeddah
(2727) Arab Revolts: A Critical
View on the Narratives of
Freedom and Authoritarianism,
Panel II
Organized by Zakia Salime
Chair: Sami Zemni, Ghent U
Discussant: Michaelle Browers, Wake
Forest U
Fatima Hadji, George Mason U–Youth:
Political Reality and State Policies in
Morocco
Zakia Salime, Rutgers U–Spaces of
Revolution and Citizenship: Egyptian
Women Blogs, Moroccan Rappers
Issam Aburaya, Seton Hall U–
Authoritarian Regimes, Religion and
Revolts: The Case of Algeria
Cheryl Leung, Columbia U–Soundtrack
of a Revolution: Politically Engaged
Tunisian Rappers
(2736) The Struggle for Water
in the Middle East: Potential
and Pitfalls of Transboundary
Cooperation
Organized by Karin Aggestam
Sihem Jebari, Lund U–Transboundary
Water Management in the Middle East: A
Study of the Mejerda River
Karin Aggestam, Lund U and Anna
Sundell Eklund, Lund U–Water
Conflict?: Moving Beyond the Water-
War Discourse
Khaldoon Mourad, Lund U–Water
Availability in Syria, Will It Be Enough?
Hossein Hashemi, Lund U and Ronny
Berndtsson, Lund U–Floodwater
Recharge to Improve Sustainable Water
Supply in Arid Iran
u MESA 2011 Preliminary Program Page 39