Ninth Annual ASMEA Conference ScheduleTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 27 Welcome Reception FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28 7:30 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Sam Encounters Ishmael: The Encounter of Syriac Christianity with Islam in the 7th -9th century Al-Shafi’i’s Hermeneutics in al-Tahawi’s Mukhtasar, al-Quduri’s Mukhtasar with al-Marghinani’s Hidaya in Reference A Comparative Study on Leading Factors of Messianic Movements during the First Islamic Centuries in Iran: Abu Muslim and Al-Muqanna The Conscription of Egyptian Christian Sailors in Medieval Muslim Naval Warfare: Taking the Long View DISCUSSANT: Prof. D Gershon Lewental 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. From Christian Brother to Native: Claiming and Rejecting Christianity, Commerce, and Civilization in Early Twentieth Century Natal The Troubled Mind of Apartheid: Black Consciousness & White Radicals Through the Eyes of the 1972 Schlebusch Commission “Africa and Providence have been good to us”: Apartheid South Africa and the Politics of Development Do the Kalanga Have More Than Their Fair Share? A Practical Problem in Sociology DISCUSSANT: Prof. Robert Lloyd 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. The New Paradoxes of Cumulative Deterrence: How Israel’s First National Military Strategy is Enslaved to Deterrence-Catch Deir Yassin as a Trigger for the Palestinian Exodus, 1948 Pragmatismus über alles? Israel-Germany Process of Normalization, 1948 – 1965 Maritime Navigation, Energy Security and Peace Dividend: Exploring the Historic Developments of the Dead Sea Conveyance Project DISCUSSANT: Dr. Ido Zelkovitz 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Is the Islamic Caliphate State Islamic? The Islamic State Between Authenticity, Nostalgia, and Iconoclasm; The Reality of History and the Banality of Dying “First Nations” DISCUSSANT: Dr. Mark Silinsky 8:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Understanding Russian-Iranian ties Iran versus Israel: Why the Obsession? Is Change in Iran Rhetorical or Real? DISCUSSANT: Dr. Asaf Romirowsky 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. What Is Left of Palestine’s Eighty-Year-Old Partition Plan? The Formation of the Israeli Security Zone in South Lebanon: Origins and Motives The Joint List and the National Leadership of the Arab-Palestinians in Israel: A New Level of Leadership? Stamps, Post and the creation of a new Palestinian Socio-Political Order 1994-2000 DISCUSSANT: Dr. Mark Heller 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Mass Youth Migration from Sub-Saharan Africa (2002-2015) Rethinking Wartime Rape: Sexual Violence in Darfur Rethinking the Politics of Refugee Hosting States in Africa: An Ethnographic study of Eritrean Refugees in Ethiopia Politics, Ethnicity, and the Addis Ababa Master Plan DISCUSSANT: Prof. Phyllis Puffer 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Diaspora and Yearning – The Iranian Exile’s Diluted Identity Politics of Standardizing the Kurdish Language Iranians in Istanbul, Ottoman-Qājar relations, and the Constitutional Revolution DISCUSSANT: Prof. Nergis Canefe 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. The Motif of Blindness in Iraqi Literature as a Tool for Political and Religious Criticism Tracing the Development of the Protagonist in Libyan Short Stories from Dictatorship to Post-Arab Spring The Jewish Union and the Crescent Moon: Popular Poetry and Contentious Politics in the Cairene Karaite Journal al-Ittiḥād al- Isra’īlī, 1924-28 DISCUSSANT: Dr. Myriam Wissa 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. (Dr. Patrick Clawson, WINEP; Ms. Hanin Ghaddar, WINEP; Mr. Mehdi Khalaji, WINEP; Dr. Matthew Levitt, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy) 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Nationalism and Education: Arab and Jewish Women of Early Mandate Palestine Syrian Women Subverting Dominant Paradigms Kill the Women First! Female Terrorism and Islam Dancing at Both Weddings: Democracy, Religion and Israeli Haredi Women’s Accidental Political Revolution DISCUSSANT: Dr. Hilla Peled-Shapira 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. The Construction of the Somali Subject in British Travel and Colonial Writings The ‘Caffres’ as Objects of Knowledge in European Discourses about Southern Africa, c. 1500–1820 Jihad and the West: The Case of West Africa During the Nineteenth Century and Today DISCUSSANT: Prof. Jamie Miller 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Jewish Thought in Fes in the Generations Following the Spanish Expulsion: Characteristics, Style and Content The Cultural Perceptions of the Spanish Army in North Africa and Their Meaning for Moroccan History Palaces, Tents, and ‘Imperial Souvenirs’: Exhibiting Cultural Authority in the French Protectorate of Morocco Text, Body, and Law: Naked Prayer in the Commentary Tradition of the Khalīl DISCUSSANT: Prof. Ricardo Laremont 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. The Validity and Significance of Designating Israel as a Western State DISCUSSANT: Prof. D Gershon Lewental 2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. (Prof. Sinan Ciddi, Georgetown University; Prof. Paul Kubicek, Oakland University; Prof. Kemal Silay, Indiana University; Prof. Birol Yesilada, Portland State University) 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Holy War and a Place in Paradise? Development of East Roman Holy War 4th-11th Centuries Jihad and the West- Black Flag over Babylon DISCUSSANT: Dr. Jonathan Zartman 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. The Belt and Road Initiatives and China’s Middle East Energy Policy The Middle East and the New Era in the World Oil Market DISCUSSANT: Dr. Douglas Streusand 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Envisioning a “Turkish Miracle”: Modernization Theory and the 1960s Turkish Guest Worker Initiative Turkish Experiment in Nation-Building: An Assessment of Modernism and Ethno-Symbolism in Nationalism Theory “Who is the State–I am the People” Politics of Large-Scale Extraction and Mining Projects in ‘New Turkey’ Alternative Identities and the State in Contemporary Turkey DISCUSSANT: Prof. Birol Yesilada 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. The Anomaly of the Arab Palestinian Refugees DISCUSSANT: Prof. Ilan Troen 4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. (Prof. Ricardo Laremont, SUNY Binghamton; Dr. Marc-Antoine Perous-de Montclos, University of Paris VIII) Film Screenings SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29 7:45 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. 8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Authoritarianism, Jihadist Ideology, and Renewal of the Religious Discourse in Egypt Extending the State’s Police Power in Egypt after the Revolutionary Wav of the Arab Spring – Prospects for Change and Transition Toward Democracy Towards Better Governance on National and Local levels: Public Participation in National and Local Policies in Egypt Discourses of Public Behavior in Egypt: Business as Usual or Justice Served?: A Counterrevolutionary Tale of Pirates, Bullies and Demagogues DISCUSSANT: Prof. Max Guirguis 8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. The Portrait of Generational Conflict in Iran Yesterday’s ‘Rogues,’ Today’s ‘Allies?’ Unraveling the Operational Codes of Ali Khamenei, Hassan Rouhani, and Ali Larijani Factional Competition in an Electoral Authoritarian Regime: An Analysis of 2008, 2012 and 2016 Iranian Majlis Elections DISCUSSANT: Dr. Ronen Cohen 8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. A Re-set between Ankara and Tel-Aviv: What May the Future Bring? Foreign Policy Impulsion from Geo-Political to Geo-Economics: Turkey’s Constative Energy Trail Between East and West Is Security Cooperation Possible in the Levant? Under What Conditions will Turkey be a Facilitator? DISCUSSANT: Dr. Gawdat Bahgat 8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Cost of Ruling: An Examination of Political Business Cycle, Governmental Accountability, and Alternation in Power in Ghana’s Democracy African Judaizing Movements and the Question of Polygamy: Perspectives from Cameroon Democratization and Gender Equality in Sub-Saharan Africa DISCUSSANT: Dr. Robin Hardy 8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. You are Just Saharawi: Negotiating and Constructing New Racial Subjectivities in Meknes, Morocco Identifying Barriers to Accessing Maternal Health Care in Rural Morocco: A Qualitative Study Qur’anic First-Aid in Morocco: Healing Bodies and Making Spaces DISCUSSANT: Prof. Larry Simpson 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. (Ms. Hala Abdullah; Dr. Alexandra Kindell; LtCol Vern Liebl; LtCol Mike Purcell; Dr. Matthew Slater) 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. “An Agonizing Death”: 1980s US Policy on Iraqi Chemical Weapons During the Iran-Iraq War Checking the Blocks: Training the U.S. Army for Deployment to the Middle East How Technology Impacts Doctrine in Asymmetrical Warfare The Shared Values Initiative Revisited DISCUSSANT: Prof. Joseph Skelly 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. After the Spring: Movement Emergence vs. Movement Outcomes in the Arab Spring Five years on: Lessons from Egyptian Failed Revolution of 2011 Evidence for Land and Property Restitution in Syria: Preparing for Mass Claims During the War DISCUSSANT: Prof. Ahmed Zohny 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Seeking Gandhi, Finding Khomeini Iranian Hegemonic Endeavors in Azerbaijan: The Case of Nardaran The Potential Impact of the Vienna Deal on Regional Issues DISCUSSANT: Prof. Jonathan Adelman 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Managing the Majority: How are Distributive Goods Used to Maintain Public Support for Ethnic Minority Authoritarian Regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa? A Uganda Case Study Women, Management and Development: The Case of Uganda’s Firms The Common Enemy: Case Studies of LGBTIQ Resilience in Authoritarian Regimes DISCUSSANT: Prof. Beverly Lindsay 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Typology of Radical Islamic Movements and Terror Networks in the Emerging Muslim Nation States of Central Asia: The Crimea as a Test Case An Examination of the Roots of Militant Jihad in Qur’an, Sunnah and Tafseer Society Without Consensus: The Drift Away from Piety Politics in post-1967 Identity Crafting and Citizenship Policies in the GCC DISCUSSANT: Prof. Christine Sixta-Rhinehart 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. The Treatment of Ethnic Minorities in Democratizing Muslim Majority Countries: The Securitization of Kurds in Turkey Versus the Autonomization of Acehnese in Indonesia Civil War and Disorder in Western Anatolia: Circassian Opposition to the Nationalists of Ankara in 1923 The Assessment of the Current Scholarship that Associates Alevis Either with Shi`ism or Sunnism DISCUSSANT: Prof. Paul Kubicek 12:30 p.m. 1:15 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. Women in the Streets: A Manifestation of Soft-Power (A Critical Analysis of Sexism in Public Spaces in Iranian Cities) Eyes are Following Me: the Root of Iranian Women’s Self-surveillance Victor Valensi’s L’Habitation Tunisienne (1928):Jewish Perspectives on Pluralist Vernacular Modernities in Tunisia DISCUSSANT: Prof. Sherifa Zuhur 1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Project Motherland: Antakya’s Annexation in 1939 and its Implications for its Arab Alawite Population Beirut experience: fighting terrorism in Lebanon during the 70’s and the 80’s 1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Mad at Tangier: Mental Pathologies, Hygienist Discourses and International Competition over Morocco (1912-1929) The Tzaddik: Human Power and Divine Power in Colonial Morocco Is There a Political Elite in Moroccan Government between 1985- 2012? Christians and Muslims in the Western Mediterranean: Assessing the Territorial and Political Impact of the Portuguese in Morocco (1415-1471) DISCUSSANT: Prof. Nathan Devir 1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. The Market has Run out of Jasmine: How the Tunisian Revolution betrayed Atheists and Homosexuals Stop the Presses: The Rise and Fall of Media Reform in Ben Ali’s Tunisia Active on the Street but Apathetic at the Ballot Box? Evolving Political Behavior of Tunisian Youth During the Post-Revolutionary Era (2011-present) 1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. The Syrian Refugee Crisis and Its Impact on Turkish Domestic and Foreign Policy Accessing to Infrastructure: Struggles over Regional Development in Israel and Turkey The Sociology of Contemporary Critical Muslim Intellectuals and Their Organizations: Cases from Turkey’s Public Sphere Ideology vs. Affection: Leader Polarization in Turkey DISCUSSANT: Prof. Banu Eligur 1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. The Revival of Orientalism in Contemporary Art Is Iran Sanctions-Relief Enabling Genocide in Syria? Steps in an Argument |