Conference ScheduleSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 44:00 P.M. – 5:30 P.M. 5:30 P.M. – 6:30 P.M. 6:30 P.M. – 8:00 P.M. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 57:30 A.M. – 8:15 A.M. 8:30 A.M. – 10:00 A.M. 8:30 A.M. – 10:00 A.M. Rethinking the Transition to Malawi's Second Wave of Democracy: National and Transnational Forces Scrapping-By: Farmer-Miner Conflicts and Threats to Customary Land Tenure in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe Terrorism and Resilience in the Lake Chad Basin: How At-Risk Communities Protect Themselves Harnessing Women’s Productive Capacities for Inclusive Economic Growth in Africa: The Case of Rwanda and Tanzania 8:30 A.M. – 10:00 A.M. Visualizing TRT World's Agenda: Analyzing Turkey's Public Diplomacy on Instagram Commanders in Chain: Electoral Dynamics and Diversionary Use of Force A Cry from the Earthquake Zone: Turkish State Capacity in Question 8:30 A.M. – 10:00 A.M. Why Do Some Small States Try to Change the World? Role of Weak Nationalism and Revolutionary Foreign Policy The Nexus of Migration, Energy Development, Climate Change, and Political (In)stability in Algeria 8:30 A.M. – 10:00 A.M. Anti-Semitism and Fascism in Africa: The Danger of Oromumma in Ethiopia The Islamist Component in the Igbo Genocide in Nigeria and Biafra Anti-Jewish Hate-Speech under Mubarak Reexamined Worse than Jahiliyya? The Jew as the Muslim’s Nemesis in Sayyid Qutb’s Thought 10:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. An Entangled History and Memory: Jewish Celebration of Abrahamic Tradition and Longing for Jerusalem in Arabic Poetry from the Cairo Genizah Bilingualism and Script-switching in a Poet's Notebook from the Genizah 10:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. Understanding AI Adoption in African Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities for Policy, Practice, and Content Delivery By the Numbers and from their Own Voices: Identifying and Explaining Pathways to Students' Thriving at a Public University in Benin From Auschwitz to Biafra and Beyond: Africanization of the Holocaust, With a Focus on Nigeria and Cameroon The Impact of Non-Contextualized Technology Upon Self-Learning and System Management in Zambia, Africa 10:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. The Challenge of Legitimacy and Governance in Afghanistan Pluralism and Crisis of Democracy in Afghanistan (2001-2021) 10:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. What Should We Do with the Gaza Strip? Proposals and Plans, 1949-1957 Abu Mazen's Presidency: A Mix of Transactional and Transformational Leadership Explaining a State Status Quo and Non-State Revisionist Dynamic: The Case of the Conflict Between Hamas and Israel 2007 - 2019 The Al Aqsa Intifada in Perspective 10:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. An Age of Hate—The Tunisian Jews During the Holocaust After the Holocaust 12:30 P.M. – 2:00 P.M. 2:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. 2:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Institutions, Discourse, and Violence: The “Amhara Settler” Trope in Ethiopia's Ethnic Federalism Forging Ethno-nationalism in Tigray (1943 - 1975) The Recent Wave of Military Coups in West Africa. Three Causes. Two Consequences. 2:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Change in Religious Practice Within the Context of an Alevi-Bektashi Tradition Re-Patriating a Nation? The Paradigm of the “Soldier-Hero” An Overview of Bediüzzaman Said Nursi's Understanding of Tyranny Mosque Construction as Nation-Building: The Case of Turkey 2:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Addressing Teenage Pregnancy and Related Public Health Issues in Rhino Camp Refugee Settlements in Uganda History from the Margin: Indigenous African Women as Missionaries, Preachers, Evangelists, and Receivers of Christianity in the Interactions of Niger Missions in the Middle Belt States of Nigeria from 1860-1930 Religion and Public Health in Africa 2:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Islamist Antisemitism in the United States Mainstreaming Antisemitism On Turkey’s Public Broadcaster TRT: Examining Payitaht Abdülhamid Can "The Whole World" be Wrong? Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism and Global Jihad Constructing the Zionist Fiend at Counterpunch 4:30 P.M. – 6:00 P.M. Mission Creep and Politicization in Middle East National Resource Centers Edward Said and the Arab Colonization of Middle Eastern Studies Strategic Culture and Ivory Spies: Iranian and Chinese Influence Operations in Academia Higher Ed Support for Hamas Exposes Disdain for America in Top Colleges 4:30 P.M. – 6:00 P.M. Civil-Military Relations and the Politics of the Personalist Coup: The Sierra Leone Experience, 1971 The Biopolitics of Material Cultures: Unearthing the Artistic Traditions of Representing Female Agency in the Smithsonian Collection of Luba Tribal Objects Is Governance Through Reconstruction and Development, a New Paradigm Shift in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)? Uganda, Invisible Children Inc. and the United States' Role in Countering the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) 4:30 P.M. – 6:00 P.M. Rethinking Money: How Bitcoin Could Transform Lebanon's Post-Crisis Financial System 4:30 P.M. – 6:00 P.M. Analyzing Iran's Minoritized National Communities Through the Framework of the Security-Development Nexus and the Jina Mahsa Amini Protests Iran, Religious Agents, and the People: Voices from Khuzestan Ressentiment Politics and Emancipation Discourses of National Minorities in Iran: Analyzing the Discourses of Azerbaijanis from a Critical Perspective 4:30 P.M. – 6:00 P.M. Redefining the North African City: Villes Nouvelles in Algiers and Tunis The Rooftop: A Culture-Specific Feminine Space in Morocco 5:00 P.M. – 6:00 P.M. 6:30 P.M. – 7:45 P.M. 8:00 P.M. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 67:30 A.M. – 8:15 A.M. 8:30 A.M. – 10:00 A.M. The Concept of al-ʿudhr bi-l-jahl in Salafī Islam The Fine Art of Popularization: Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb as a Reader of Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya The 1834 Assassination of Saudi Imām Turkī, As Told by Ibn Bishr 8:30 A.M. – 10:00 A.M. What do the Kurds in Turkey Want Now? Public and Private Perceptions on Autonomy and Secession in Istanbul and the Southeast Between Separatism and Integration: Examining the Persistence and Moderation of Self-Determination Movements in Yemen and Turkey Revisiting the Kurdish Opening in Turkey: Dual State Strategy and Territorial Control Newroz (New Day)? Saddam Hussein's Arabization of Iraqi Kurdistan, 1975-1979 8:30 A.M. – 10:00 A.M. Public Opinion Toward Normalization with Israel: The View from the Arab World From Arab-Israeli Conflict to Arab-Israeli Integration: A New Textbook for Understanding the Contemporary Middle East The Future of the US-Israel Relations: Less Emotional, More Strategic—and Durable? Israel in the Middle East - From the Margins to the Center 8:30 A.M. – 10:00 A.M. Presidential Candidate Policy Preferences in Cote d'Ivoire and Senegal "The Democracy of the Stomach": Historicizing Soldier Complaints and National Security in Colonial Nigeria (1944-1960) "Destruction of Noxious Beast": Conservation, Ox-Plowing, and Late British Colonial Rule in The Gambia, West Africa 10:15 A.M. 10:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. 10:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. The Early Years of Rashid Karami: East or West? From Accession as Za'im to Lebanon's 1958 Civil War The Myth of “Zaim”/ “Zuema”: Revisiting the Lebanese Elite Terminology in 1950s 10:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. The Challenges and Opportunities of Religious Diaspora Advocacy: The Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Community in North America as a Case Study How to Think About the Muslim/Arab Conquests 10:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. In Search of a Strategic Ally—Saudi Arabia—China Rapprochement and its Foundations Operation AJAX Revisited: US-Iran Relations in Light of Recently Declassified CIA Sources The United States, the Middle East, and the Language of Force The Impact of the Saudi-Iranian Rapprochement on the United States Interests in the Middle East 10:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. The 2023 Constitutional-Judicial Discourse in Israel as Another Occurrence of the Liberal-Republican Ethos Clash in Israeli Society The Rise and Fall of Israel's Anti-Apartheid Policy: The Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) and its Relations with Israel During the 1960s Ethnicity in Israeli Foreign Policy Opinion The Young generation in the Arab society in Israel - (The Arab Woman in Israel in a Tight Spot: Academia and Career Versus Marriage and Family) 12:15 P.M. 12:30 P.M. – 2:00 P.M. North Korean Support to Iran's Proxy Partners The Role of Proxy Warfare and Missile Proliferation in Iran's Shia Imamate Project The Role of Disease in French Colonial Warfare in Africa 1830-1914 12:30 P.M. – 2:00 P.M. The Ideological Foundation of the African Jihadist Group Boko Haram Normalization as Strategic Hedging. Explaining the Recent Wave of Rapprochements in the MENA Region The Tripartite Motivational Structure for Violent Extremism and Terrorism An In-Depth Exploration of the Utilization of Emerging Neurotechnologies in Terrorist Rehabilitation Programs 12:30 P.M. – 2:00 P.M. Ending a War with No End: Revisiting Khomeini's Decision to Finish the War with Iraq What Do We Mean by Sharia Government? Iran’s Foreign Policy in Central Asia: Pragmatism Over Ideology The Question of the Financial Reform of Iran—Geopolitical Interests and Modernization During the Late Qajar Era 12:30 P.M. – 2:00 P.M. Hashtags & Holy Texts: A Social Network Analysis of Anti-Feminist Discourses and the Religious Rhetoric Silencing Arab Women The Protection of Women from Cyber Blackmail in Arab Countries in the Light of International Human Rights Law Boundaries of Ethnic and Diasporic Identities: Armenian Communities in New York and Toronto 12:30 P.M. – 2:00 P.M. European Jewish Refugees in Shanghai Between 1933 and 1939 Jewish Emigration from Shanghai to Israel in the Post-WWII Period For the Homeland: Army Formation in the Haganah through the Israeli War of Independence The Question of Palestine in the Context of State-Ulema Relations in Iran, 1947 - 1949 2:15 P.M. 2:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. The US Trade Capacity Building Assistance and Its Impact on Recipients Capacity Building: The Case of Middle East and African Countries Does it Matter for Africa with Whom it Trades? Estimations of the Impacts of Africa's Trade with the EU and China on Corruption How BRICS and China are Changing the Geoeconomic and Political Landscape of the Middle East: Dedollarization and its Consequences Can Foreign Economic Engagement Legitimate Autocracy? How China's Belt and Road Initiative is Shaping the Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa 2:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Language Maintenance in Kabyle-Tamazight: Social Consensus and Policy Victories Politics of Disassimilation 2:30 A.M. – 4:00 P.M. Is the Genie still in the Bottle? Risk of a new wave of Nuclearization in the post-JCPOA Middle East New Normal of MENA: Are Thaws Strong Enough to Think Beyond Hedging? Greek-Turkish Rapprochement: Disaster Diplomacy, Normalization or a New Thinking in Eastern Mediterranean 2:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Dissension in the Baha'i Faith: How some Baha'is rejected the Guardianship of Shoghi Effendi The Consolidation of Power in Shaykhism and Babism |
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