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(2622) Philosophical Narratives
in Medieval Arabic and Hebrew
Thought
Organized by Shatha Almutawa and
Jessica Andruss
Discussant: Richard McGregor,
Vanderbilt U
Alexander Orwin, U of Chicago–
An Indispensable Handmaiden to
Philosophy: The Use of Stories in the
Thought of Farabi
Shatha Almutawa, U of Chicago–The
Use of Narrative in Rasa’il Ikhwan Al-
Safa
Peter Heath, American U of Sharjah–
Narrative Textures in Ibn `Arabī’s
Accounts of Spiritual Ascent
Jessica Andruss, U of Chicago–Parables
as Pedagogy in Abraham Ibn Hasday’s
Book of the Prince and the Ascetic
(2631) Media Personalities and
the Makings of Public Spheres
in the Middle East
Organized by Daniella Kuzmanovic
Chair: Dietrich Jung, U of Southern
Denmark
Daniella Kuzmanovic, U of
Copenhagen, Denmark–“Martyrs of
the Press”: On the Makings of Icons of
Journalism in Turkey
Joe F. Khalil, Northwestern U Qatar–The
Making and Unmaking of Revolutions:
The Antagonistic Symbiosis of Youth
Generated Media and Mainstream Media
Ehab Galal, U of Copenhagen–Media
Personalities at Islamic Arab Satellite-
Television: Authority and Role Model
Donatella Della Ratta, U of Copenhagen
and Danish Inst in Damascus and
Augusto Valeriani, U di Bologna–
Creating Media Personalities through
the Social Arab Web the Case of Al
Jazeera during #Jan25 Egyptian Uprising
Sune Haugbolle, Copenhagen U–Art,
Iconicity, and Mass Mediation: A
Comparative Analysis of Ziad Al-Rahbani
and Naji Al-Ali
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11AM-1PM Sunday December 4
(2675) Superpower Antagonism
on the Periphery: The Two
Yemens during the Cold War
Organized by Roland Popp
Chair: James F. Goode, Grand Valley
State U
Discussant: Gregory Gause, U of
Vermont
Roland Popp, Center for Security
Studies, ETH Zurich–Turning Point in
South Arabia?: The Soviet Union, the US
and the PDRY Leadership Struggle, 1986-
1987
Asher Orkaby, Harvard–Komer’s War:
U.S. Policy during the North Yemeni
Civil War, 1962-1970
James Esdaile, Harvard U–Anti-Imperial
Turning Point, Imperial Starting Point?:
Aden’s General Strike of April 25th, 1958
Thanos Petouris, SOAS, U of London–
Superpower Responses to Regional
Challenges: Nasser’s Role, and Britain in
South Arabia
(2714) Negotiating Categories
and Methodologies: Expressing
Minorities in Turkey
Organized by Ilker Hepkaner
Chair/Discussant: Asli Z. Igsiz, U of
Arizona
David Gramling, U of Arizona–“In
Lingual Lockdown”?: Turkish Youth in
Multiple Languages
Ahmet Abdullah Sacmali, U of Arizona–
The Transformation in Ahmed Emin’s
Perception of Non-Muslims in the
Armistice Period (1918-1923)
Ilker Hepkaner, U of Arizona–Yilmaz
Guney’s Cinema: A Minority in Which
Sense?
Muge Salmaner, U of Washington–
Themes of Nostalgia and Loss in
Contemporary Turkish Armenian
Literature
Ipek Celik, Brown U–Taking Fiction
to Court: Pamuk and Safak on the
Armenian Genocide
(2749) Mediating Desire:
Female Homosociality in the
Modern Middle East
Organized by Tahereh Aghdasifar
Discussant: Afsaneh Najmabadi,
Harvard U
Sara Pursley, CUNY Graduate Center–
Domesticating Women, Reproducing the
Future: Homosociality as Wasted Time in
Revolutionary Iraq
Tahereh Aghdasifar, Emory U–
Diminishing Desires: Effects of the Green
Movement and LGBT Organizations on
Iranian Female Desire
Nadia L. Dropkin, New York U–“I’m
Not a Lesbian”: Embodiments and
Constructions of Female Same-Sex
Sexuality in Contemporary Cairo
(2757) Middle East Studies in
the Post September 11 Era
Organized by Tugrul Keskin
Chair: Tugrul Keskin, Portland State U
Discussant: Mohammed A. Bamyeh, U
of Pittsburgh
Osamah Khalil, UC Berkeley–The New
World Order: The Decline of Middle East
Studies and the Rise of the Think Tanks,
1971-2001
Daniel Martin Varisco, Hofstra U–The
Net Worth of Orientalism: Can Discourse
be Hegemonic in Cyberspace?
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, James Madison
U–Orientalism and Afghanistan Studies
(2775) Quests for Belonging:
Perspectives of Middle Eastern
Youths Amidst Normalizing
Discourses
Organized by Lory Dance
Chair: Reza Arjmand, Lund U/Columbia U
Erica Li Lundqvist, Lund U–“Gayted”
Communities: Marginalized Masculinities
in Lebanon
Jonas Otterbeck, Lund U–Constructing
a Respectable Islam in Malmö and
Copenhagen: Young Adult Muslims
Negotiating Islamic Traditions with
Family, Friends and Foes