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(2605) Screening Silent Films in<br />
the <strong>Middle</strong> <strong>East</strong><br />
Organized by Mario M. Ruiz<br />
Chair/Discussant: Mario M. Ruiz,<br />
H<strong>of</strong>stra U<br />
Magdy El-Shamma’, U <strong>of</strong> Alberta–Early<br />
Egyptian Filmmaking; Early Egyptian<br />
Filmmakers<br />
Canan Balan, Istanbul Sehir U–Cinema<br />
between Resistance and Surrender:<br />
Silent Films in Istanbul during and after<br />
the Great War<br />
Kaveh Askari, Western <strong>Washington</strong><br />
U–Odd Reels and Infrastructures:<br />
Reconstructing Commercial Film<br />
Exhibition in Tehran in the Late Silent<br />
Period<br />
Hossein Khosrowjah, U <strong>of</strong> Rochester–<br />
Looking Back: Re-Visiting the 1900<br />
Archival Footage Shot by Iranian<br />
Cinematographer Akkasbashi used in<br />
Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s “Once Upon a<br />
Time, Cinema”<br />
(2607) Slavery in the<br />
Islamic World: Comparative<br />
Perspectives on Enslaved<br />
Africans in <strong>Middle</strong> <strong>East</strong>ern and<br />
African Households<br />
Organized by Mary Ann Fay<br />
Chair: Kenneth M. Cuno, U <strong>of</strong> Illinois at<br />
Urbana-Champaign<br />
Discussant: Terry Walz, Independent<br />
Scholar<br />
Rima A. Sabban, Zayed U–The Silent<br />
History <strong>of</strong> Domestic Slavery in the UAE:<br />
Finding Alternative Methodologies<br />
Sarah Ghabrial, McGill U–‘Histoire<br />
d’une Petite Nègress’: Redeeming the<br />
‘Slave-Wives’ <strong>of</strong> the Mzab Valley, Algeria<br />
(1880-1900)<br />
Mary Ann Fay, Morgan State U–Race,<br />
Gender and Slavery in the Mamluk<br />
Households <strong>of</strong> Eighteenth-Century Egypt<br />
Anthony A. Lee, UCLA–Enslaved African<br />
Women in Nineteenth-Century Iran: The<br />
Life <strong>of</strong> Fezzeh Khanum <strong>of</strong> Shiraz<br />
1:30-3:30PM Sunday December 4<br />
A-ME<br />
(2618) Anthropology <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Bedouin: State <strong>of</strong> the Art<br />
Organized by Dawn Chatty<br />
Chair: Dawn Chatty, U <strong>of</strong> Oxford<br />
Haian Dukhan, Independent Scholar–<br />
Conservation Theory and Bedouin<br />
Livelihood Realities in the Syrian Badia<br />
Justa Hopma, U <strong>of</strong> Oxford–Conflict and<br />
Cooperation in the Wadi Arabah, Jordan<br />
Donald Cole, American U in Cairo–Small<br />
Pastoralist Transformations since the<br />
1960s: Looking Forward<br />
Hilary Gilbert, U <strong>of</strong> Manchester–<br />
Development, Conservation and Bedu in<br />
South Sinai<br />
Roundtable<br />
(2637) Thinking beyond Cooptation<br />
and Resistance in<br />
Authoritarian States: Iraq,<br />
Bulgaria and Stalinist Soviet<br />
Union<br />
Organized by Dina Rizk Khoury<br />
Chair: Dina Rizk Khoury, George<br />
<strong>Washington</strong> U<br />
Golfo Alexopolous, U <strong>of</strong> South Florida<br />
Joseph Sassoon, Georgetown U<br />
Martin Dimitrov, Dartmouth Col<br />
(2694) Telling, Retelling, and<br />
Not Telling: Stories <strong>of</strong> the State<br />
in Turkey<br />
Organized by Maureen Jackson and<br />
Kimberly Hart<br />
Chair: Kimberly Hart, Buffalo State Col<br />
Discussant: Senem Aslan, Bates Col<br />
Kimberly Hart, Buffalo State Col–<br />
Memories <strong>of</strong> Radical Secularization<br />
Policies in Rural Turkey<br />
Leila Harris, U <strong>of</strong> British Columbia–<br />
Ethnographic and Narrative Approaches<br />
to the Turkish State from the<br />
Borderlands<br />
Maureen Jackson, Carleton Col–The<br />
Silent Informant: Discordant Narratives<br />
<strong>of</strong> Public History in Turkey<br />
Melis Sulos, CUNY Graduate Center–<br />
Childhood, Memory, and Turkish Politics<br />
towards Social and Ethnic Diversity:<br />
Tenth Anniversary Celebrations<br />
(1933) <strong>of</strong> the Turkish Republic and Its<br />
Narratives<br />
Zeynep Kezer, Newcastle U (UK)–<br />
Erasing Collective Memory from Urban<br />
Space: The Case <strong>of</strong> Early Republican<br />
Ankara<br />
(2705) People, Fauna, and<br />
Environment in the Ottoman<br />
Empire<br />
Organized by Richard Wittmann<br />
Discussant: Sam White, Oberlin Col<br />
Suraiya Faroqhi, Istanbul Bilgi U–Fish<br />
and Fishermen in the Istanbul Region<br />
(Mid-16th to Mid-18th Centuries)<br />
Aleksandar Sopov, Harvard U–Science,<br />
Expertise, Politics: The Bosnian<br />
Mountain Horse and Developments in<br />
Breeding in the Ottoman Balkans<br />
Christoph Herzog, Bamberg U–The<br />
Problem <strong>of</strong> the Hindiyya Channel in Late<br />
Ottoman Iraq<br />
Richard Wittmann, Orient-Institut<br />
Istanbul–“For They Cannot Speak...” An<br />
Early Example <strong>of</strong> Pathocentric Animal<br />
Protection in the Islamic World<br />
A-ME<br />
(2754) You Say You Want a<br />
Revolution?: Anthropology,<br />
Media, and Agendas for Radical<br />
Change in the <strong>Middle</strong> <strong>East</strong><br />
Organized by W. Flagg Miller and<br />
Walter Tice Armbrust<br />
Chairs: W. Flagg Miller, UC Davis and<br />
Walter Tice Armbrust, U <strong>of</strong> Oxford<br />
Discussant: Jessica Winegar,<br />
Northwestern U<br />
Walter Tice Armbrust, U <strong>of</strong> Oxford–<br />
Intisar Al-Shabab: Media Practices <strong>of</strong><br />
Egypt’s January 25th Revolution<br />
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