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TODAy’S AFFILIATED MEETINgS
12nn-2pm
AMIDEAST Arabic Advisory
Board Meeting
Park Tower Suite 8224 (L)
(2643) The Poetics, Politics
and Performance of Sahrawi
Identity
Organized by Jacob A. Mundy
Chair/Discussant: Jacob A. Mundy,
Colgate U
Elena Fiddian-Qamiyeh, U of Oxford–
The Pragmatics of Religious Performance
in the Sahrawi Refugee Camps
Jacob A. Mundy, Colgate U–Moroccan
Settlers in Western Sahara: Colonists or
Fifth Column?
Patrick Healy, American U of Beirut–
The Inception of Sahrawi Nationalisms:
Contested Identities, Contingent
Outcomes
Tara Deubel, U of South Florida–
Dialogues across the Divide: Poetic
Expression as Political Critique in the
Sahrawi Diaspora
Roundtable
(2654) Integrating Middle
Eastern “Jewish” Studies
Organized by Ari Ariel
Chair: Daniel J. Schroeter, U of
Minnesota
Emily Gottreich, UC Berkeley
Shane E. Minkin, Swarthmore Col
Eyal Ginio, Hebrew U of Jerusalem
Ari Ariel, New York U
(2715) Perceived and
Misperceived Self and the
Other in Middle Eastern Travel
Memoirs
Organized by M. R. Ghanoonparvar
Chair/Discussant: M. Mehdi Khorrami,
New York U
Dena Afrasiabi, UT Austin–The Other
as Self in the Travel Memoirs of Second-
Generation Iranian-Americans
8:30-10:30AM Sunday December 4
Ahmad Aminpour, UT Austin–Kurds in
European Travel Diaries
Maryam Shariati, UT Austin–Al-e
Ahmad’s Memoir: Investigating Self and
the Other
M. R. Ghanoonparvar, UT Austin–
Through Tinted Lenses: New Media
Travel Narratives
(2722) Contemporary
Approaches to the Study of
Middle East Conflicts
Organized by Colin Owens
Matt Flannes, U of Arizona–Neoliberalism,
Creative Destruction and the
Economic Reconstruction of Iraq, 2003-
2010
David Callen, U of Arizona–Regulation,
Kinetic Action and Resource
Interdiction: An Adaptive Approach to
Countering Conflict Financing
Colin Owens, U of Arizona–Insurgency
and Counterinsurgency Development
and Its Implications
Dylan Baun, U of Arizona–From Social
Tension to Protracted Civil Conflict:
Using fsQCA to Analyze Conflict in
Lebanon
(2743) The Revolution Will Not
Be Tweeted: Social Media and
Uprisings in the Middle East
Organized by Assem Nasr
Chair: Roberta L. Dougherty, UT Austin
Discussant: Somy Kim, UT Austin
Assem Nasr, Indiana U-Purdue U,
Fort Wayne (IPFW)–Censorship,
Satellites, and Tech-Savvy Arabs: Media
Revolutions and Social Transitions in the
Arab World
Ikram Toumi, UT Austin–Facebook Use
and the Tunisian Revolution: A Media
Literacy Perspective
Lior Sternfeld, UT Austin–Once We
Were Alike
Roberta L. Dougherty, UT Austin–
“Smiling and Waving Witty Banners”:
The Expressive Culture of the Egyptian
Revolution
(2787) Portable States and
Liminal Populations: Assessing
Mobility in the Gulf and Indian
Ocean, c. 1800-2010
Organized by Fahad A. Bishara and
Ahmed Dailami
Chair: Lawrence Potter, Columbia U
Thomas Dodie McDow, George Mason
U–Sultans at Sea: Mobility and State
Power in Muscat and Zanzibar (1804-
1913)
Fahad A. Bishara, Duke U–Merchant-
Princes and Proto-States: Life in Motion
in the Gulf and Indian Ocean, c. 1850-
1920
Ahmed Dailami, St. Antony’s Col,
Oxford–Crude Nationalisms: Oil and the
National Imaginary in Bahrain (1953-
1956)
Noora Lori, Johns Hopkins U/Dubai
School of Government–“Offshore
Citizens”: The Political Management of
Rentier Transformations, Naturalization
Policy, and Liminal Populations in the
UAE
(2827) New Approaches to Late
Ottoman History
Organized by Fatma Müge Goçek
Chair/Discussant: Fatma Müge Goçek, U
of Michigan
Adil Baktiaya, Istanbul U–Ottoman
Empire Negotiates Terrorism: Dynamics
of Imperial Participation in the Secret
1898 Rome Conference on Threats Posed
by Anarchist Terrorism
Murat Ozyuksel, Istanbul U–Construction
of the Absolutist/Islamist Policy of
Sultan Abdulhamit II
Sarah Shields, UNC Chapel Hill–
Transformation of the Minority Issue:
From the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish
Republic
Namik Sinan Turan, Istanbul U–
Origins of Ottoman Sociopolitical
Transformation: The Emergence of the
Concept of Secularization during the
Reign of Sultan Abdulhamid II
u MESA 2011 Preliminary Program Page 43