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(2677) Death as a Category<br />
<strong>of</strong> Analysis in <strong>Middle</strong> <strong>East</strong><br />
Scholarship<br />
Organized by Shane E. Minkin<br />
Chair: Shane E. Minkin, Swarthmore<br />
Col<br />
Discussant: Miri Shefer, Tel Aviv U<br />
Shane E. Minkin, Swarthmore<br />
Col–Dissecting Death: Postmortems,<br />
Governance and Belonging in British<br />
Egypt, 1882-1914<br />
Amy Motlagh, American U in Cairo–Of<br />
Gardens and Graveyards: Examining<br />
Heterotopic Space in Postrevolutionary<br />
Iranian Fiction<br />
Lerna Ekmekcioglu, U <strong>of</strong> Michigan–“We<br />
Can’t Let the Dead Die”: Politics <strong>of</strong><br />
Revenge and Commemoration in the<br />
Aftermath <strong>of</strong> the Armenian Genocide<br />
Babek Elahi, RIT–The Poetics and<br />
Politics <strong>of</strong> Death in Bahman Farmanara’s<br />
Films<br />
(2697) National Identities in<br />
Transition<br />
Organized by Patrick J. Adamiak and<br />
David Stenner<br />
David Stenner, UC Davis–The Moroccan<br />
Independence Movement as an<br />
International Network<br />
Çağdas Sümer, <strong>Middle</strong> <strong>East</strong> Technical<br />
U–Ottoman Regime Strategies and Non-<br />
Turkish Muslim Responses<br />
Patrick J. Adamiak, UC San Diego–The<br />
Carnegie Endowment Report on the<br />
Balkan Wars and the Ottoman Response<br />
Edward Falk, UC San Diego–Jesuits,<br />
Jews, and Franco-Maronites: La Mission<br />
Civilisatrice in Ottoman Lebanon<br />
5-7PM Thursday December 1<br />
The following session “kicks-<strong>of</strong>f ” the Anthropology<br />
<strong>of</strong> the <strong>Middle</strong> <strong>East</strong>: A New Millennium series<br />
<strong>of</strong> sessions that are scheduled throughout the<br />
program. Look for the A-ME designation.<br />
A-ME<br />
(2698) Anthropology <strong>of</strong> the<br />
<strong>Middle</strong> <strong>East</strong>: A New Millennium<br />
Organized by Suad Joseph<br />
Chair: Suad Joseph, UC Davis<br />
Brinkley Messick, Columbia U<br />
Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia U<br />
Dale F. Eickelman, Dartmouth Col<br />
(2721) Media, People’s<br />
Movements, State Power and<br />
the 2011 Revolutions<br />
Organized by Niki Akhavan<br />
Chair/Discussant: Juan Cole, U <strong>of</strong><br />
Michigan<br />
Niki Akhavan, Catholic U <strong>of</strong> America–<br />
“S<strong>of</strong>t War” and the Hardline: New Media<br />
Battlefields in Iran<br />
Amy Kallander, Syracuse U–Error 404:<br />
Media, Mobilization and the Party State,<br />
Tunisia since 2000<br />
Shawn Powers, Georgia State U–<br />
Huntington’s “Demonstration Effect”<br />
and the <strong>Middle</strong> <strong>East</strong>: Social Media as<br />
Democracy or as a Safety Valve?<br />
William L. Youmans, U <strong>of</strong> Michigan–<br />
The Interactive Effects <strong>of</strong> Networked<br />
Journalism: Al Jazeera English and Social<br />
Media in the 2011 Egyptian Uprising<br />
(2732) Less Commonly<br />
Addressed AFL Issues: Insights<br />
and Recommendations<br />
Organized by Laila Al-Sawi<br />
Chair: Laila Al-Sawi, American U in<br />
Cairo<br />
Hebatallah Salem, American U in<br />
Cairo–Teaching Printed Colloquial<br />
Azza Hassanien, American U in Cairo–<br />
Discourse Markers: When to Use or Not<br />
to Use the Particle قد<br />
Hala Yehia Abd El-Wahab, American U<br />
in Cairo–Investigating the Effects <strong>of</strong> AFL<br />
Learners’ Use <strong>of</strong> L1 in the L2 Learning<br />
Process<br />
Hanan Hassanein, American U in<br />
Cairo–Dyslexia and Learning Arabic as a<br />
Foreign Language<br />
Laila Al-Sawi, American U in Cairo–<br />
Pronunciation: A Key to Better<br />
Communication<br />
(2759) New Perspectives on<br />
Citizenship in the Gulf<br />
Organized by Kristin Smith Diwan<br />
Chair: Mary Ann Fay, Morgan State U<br />
Discussant: Noora Lori, Johns Hopkins<br />
U/Dubai Schl <strong>of</strong> Government<br />
Manal A. Jamal, James Madison U–The<br />
Tiering <strong>of</strong> Citizenship, Migration, and<br />
Nationality Rights: The United Arab<br />
Emirates in Historical Context<br />
Gwenn Okruhlik, Trinity U–Stateless<br />
in Arabia: Exclusion and the Politics <strong>of</strong><br />
Citizenship<br />
Roel Meijer, Radboud U–The Saudi<br />
Shi’as Project for National Citizenship<br />
Kristin Smith Diwan, American U–<br />
Gerrymandering Citizenship: Political<br />
Participation and Political Polarization<br />
in the Arab Gulf States<br />
(2766) Social Histories <strong>of</strong><br />
Labour in the Iranian Oil<br />
Industry<br />
Organized by Touraj Atabaki<br />
Chair/Discussant: Ervand Abrahamian,<br />
Baruch Col CUNY<br />
Touraj Atabaki, International Inst <strong>of</strong><br />
Social History–From Sarkar to Labour<br />
Office in the Iranian Oil Industry: The<br />
Position <strong>of</strong> Labour Intermediaries in the<br />
Early Labour Recruitment<br />
Peyman Jafari, International Inst <strong>of</strong><br />
Social History–The Political Economy<br />
<strong>of</strong> Oil and Democratization in Iran:<br />
Revisiting the Rentier State Theory<br />
Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul U–Iranian Oil<br />
Workers in the Islamic Republic<br />
Maral Jefroudi, International Inst <strong>of</strong><br />
Social History–Whither Transition?:<br />
The Lifeworld <strong>of</strong> Oil Workers before and<br />
after Iran’s 1951 Oil Nationalization<br />
u MESA 2011 Preliminary Program Page 9
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