History and the “New” Middle East and Africa
October 11-13, 2012 |Key Bridge Marriott Hotel | Washington, D.C.
List of Papers:
- Misdirected Agricultural Strategy in Uganda
- The Obstacles and Challenges to Democratic Consolidation in Madagascar (1992-2009)
- Plagues and Pestilences in Samburuland, c. 1869 – c. 1893
- Economic Emancipation and Family Formation: “Modern Marriage” as the Pathway from Poverty in Nationalist-Era Cameroon, 1950-1965
- Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Misadventure of French Engineers in Egypt with Napoleon Bonaparte’s Army
- Rashid Twists the Lion’s Tail, The British Disaster at Rosetta
- Oriental Illusions: Response of the Muslim Population to Bonaparte’s Expedition in Egypt and Syria, 1798-1799
- Israel’s Secret Weapon of Optimism: Is it Still There?
- Gilad Shalit from the Palestinian Strategic Perspective
- The Jewish Extremist Threat to Israeli Security and the Effectiveness of the Government’s Response Measures
- Redefining the Post-Nation-State Emergence Phase in the Middle East in Light of the “Arab Spring”
- Horns of a Human Capital Dilemma: How Investment in Human Capital Led to the Arab Spring
- Demographics, Economics, and Technology: Backgrounds to the North African Revolutions
- Gaddafi’s Downfall and its Impact on Sub-Saharan Africa
- Cyberspace Improvised Explosive Device and the Failed State Catapult
- Why Are Consensus Views So Often Wrong in Regional Security Studies?
- Sufi or Salafi: Concept of the Sacred? Treatment of Sahelian Saints’ Tombs as Idiom of a Deeper Debate
- In and Out of North Africa: Jewish Women’s Identity in French Film
- Jewish-Arab Relations through the Lense of Israeli Cinema, Then and Now
- Optimistic Peace Prospects: Jews and Muslims in Recent French Cinema
- Contemporary Middle Eastern Harshness in the Application of Death Penalty: Why is Israel the Only Abolitionist?
- Oslo +20: Reassessing the Role of Confidence Building Measures
- Camp David 2012: Analysis of a Failure Foretold
- How Israel Returned to Africa: An Update
- The International Laws of Terrorism and the Arab States
- Iranian Terrorism and Sovereign Immunity
- Iran’s Ayatollahs and International Law
- The Legal Status of Settlements: Western Sahara, Cyprus, and the West Bank
- Two Years Later: Realities of the Arab Spring
- Jihad or Qatal? Examining Al Qaeda’s Modus Operandi
- The Shari’a of Lawful Military Jihad: Sayyid Imam, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and the Dispute over the Islamic Legality of 9/11
- Possibility of Applying the Autopoiesis Theory to the Sharī’a and Qānūn in Egypt as a Plurality of Legal Systems and its Alternative
- The Political Theory of the Kitab al-Kharaj: Defining the Mainstream of Islamic Political Thought
- The Babak Khorramdin Organization: The Messenger of the New Iranian Nationality?
- Heroism in the Islamic Revolution of Iran: A Philological Query
- History for a Purpose: An Analysis of ‘Saddam’s Qadisiyyah’
- Defying Conventional Wisdom: Iraq as a Case Study of Proliferation and Disarmament
- Some Methodical Considerations for the Study of the Historic and Currents Encounters between Eastern Christians and Muslim Communities
- The Arabic Karšuni: an Attempt to Preserve the Maronite Identity in Aleppo, Syria
- Muslim Conversions to Christianity in the Islamic World, 700-1000 AD
- The Status of Monks in Egypt under Early Mamlūk Rule: The Case of Ibn Taymiyya
- The Genesis of the Modern Eritrean Struggle (1942-1961)
- The Influence of British Propaganda on the Palestinian Problem on Northern Nigerian Muslims, 1915-1948
- South Sudan: Assessing Initial Conditions and Growth Prospects
- The Interrogation and Trial of General China
- Bahraini Revolution in the Eyes of the Expatriate Community: The Mixed Experience
- Iran’s Nuclear Program and Russian Relations with the U.S.: Hopes and Concerns
- Russia and the Persian Gulf: Trade, Energy, and Interdependence
- Western Influence on Arab Militaries: Pounding Square Pegs into Round Holes
- Indian Morale in the Mesopotamia Campaign, 1914-1917
- U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence in Desert Shield/ Desert Storm, 1990-1991
- Submarine Warfare and Anti-submarine Warfare in the Persian Gulf Region in World War II
- A New Nation and Western Labor: Ghana and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions in the 1950s
- The Politics of Corruption in Nigeria: The Role of Civil Society Organizations and the Media
- Kenizé Mourad and Early Middle Eastern Feminism
- Fissures of Trespass in the Midst of National Disenchantments
- Transcending Conventional Alignments and Oppositional Systems: Leila Abouzeid and Houria Boussejra
- National Disenchantment in Hédi Béji: Perspectives on Women, Nation, and Baudrillard’s Simulacra
- Turkey under a Decade of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) Rule: The Question of Democracy and Secularism
- Can Turkey and the US Develop Substantial Cooperation in the Middle East?
- Contribution of the Middle East to European Architecture
- The Conscript: An Early Indigenous-African Novel about Libyans, Eritreans, and Italians in a Colonial War Zone
- The Alternative to the Regime as Reflected in Iraqi Communist Literature
- Faith, Politics, and Design: Examining the Nigerian National Mosque and the National Christian Centre in Abuja
- Globalization and State Formation in the “New” Middle East: Comparing the UAE and Jordan
- Women Participating in the Public Sphere in Tunisia: From Early Voluntary Associations to the Social Networking Media of the Arab Spring
- Democratization is Not the Answer; Mixed Constitutional Government is – America’s Mideast Foreign Policy after the Arab Spring
- The Vatican and Islam: Cooperation, Détente or Back to the Future
- Secularization and the Politics of Land Administration: the Case of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, from the Ottoman Times to the British Mandate
- Muhammad and the Jews According to Ibn Ishaq
- Civil-Military Efforts in Counterinsurgency: Have the Lessons of Vietnam Been Followed?
- Implications of Wartime Resource Capture and Postwar Corruption in South Sudan
- Indigenous Combat Forces in the Middle East and Africa: A Historical Perspective on a Current Reality
- The Transformation of Iraqi National Identity, Social, and Political Structure between 1991 and 2003
- Looking at Alawites
- The Arab Autumn of Salt: The Arab Spring and the Crisis of Transnational Islamic Identity
- Imazighen Security: Why Does Identity Matter in North Africa?
- Democratization in Contemporary Francophone Africa: Causes and Costs of Conflicts in the 1998 and 2005 Presidential Elections in Togo
- Somalia’s “Pirate Cycle”: The Three Phases of Somali Piracy
- The Politics of Transparency and the Ethics of Open Sources: Digital Mapping in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements
- Water Scarcity: A Future Source of Armed Conflict between Jordan and Israel
- To Build and Be Built: Strategic Culture and the Genesis of the Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories
- War and Memory in Iran: The Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Representations of the Iran-Iraq War
- Upgraded Authoritarianism or Emerging Democracy? What the Legitimization Strategies of Yemen’s Old Regime Mean for its New Government
- Between Scylla and Charybdis: Understanding the Dynamics of Lebanon’s Foreign Policy – The Cairo Agreement
- Qajar Foreign Policy and the Anglo-Persian War of 1856-57
- Historical Parallels in Responding to Power Preponderance: Gulf States and Saudi Arabia
- South Sudan: Assessing Initial Conditions and Growth Prospects