Eighth Annual ASMEA Conference ScheduleTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 29Welcome Reception FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30Breakfast 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Can We Expect a New Rapprochement in Turkish-American Relations? Understanding Turkey’s Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Walking on the Tight Road at the Road Between “Complex Extended Deterrence” and “Complex Interdependence 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Cultural and Artistic Impact of Safavid Iran on Mughal India: Themes, Materials & Techniques of Miniature Paintings Derafsh-e kāveyān: The Pre-Islamic Iranian National Standard in Myth, History, and Memory The Transatlantic Dialogue on Iran after a Nuclear Agreement The Eyes and Ears: The Sasanian and Roman Spies AD 224-450 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. The Postwar Career of Nazi Ideologue, Johann von Leers, aka Omar Amin, the “First Ranking German” in Nasser’s Egypt The Ehden Massacre of 1978 in Lebanon – The Creation of a Resistance Myth Deir Yassin: Propaganda and Historiography 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. On Taxation and Suspicion: Toward a Fiscal Anthropology in Hargeysa, Somaliland Advocating State-Building: The Marxist Project in Post-Colonial Africa Ethiopia and the Former Czechoslovakia in the Era of the Cold War, 1960-1980: Ideological or Pragmatic Cooperation Between Authoritarian Regimes? Laboring the Cold War in Africa: The “Modernizing” Ideas of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Islamic Origins: The Transformation of a Peripheral Religious Movement? The Judeo-Christian Audience of the Qu’ran Jewish-Christianity, Non-Trinitarianism, and the Beginnings of Islam 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Islam as a Millennial Religion: The Cultural and Religious Sources of Islamic ‘Self’ against the ‘Other’ Is Boko Haram an Apocalyptic Movement? Apocalyptic Jihad in the Context of Millennial Movements Throughout History 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Appeal to Classical Source Material by Islamic State Leadership and Fighters Muslim Brotherhood 2.0: The Idea of Change in a Global Movement Predecessors to ISIS and the Islamic State?: The Early Wahhabi Movement – An Historiographical Examination The Five Faces of Resurgent Islam: Toward a Typology of Violent and Political Islamist Ideologies 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. IGAD, Sudan, and South Sudan: Achievements and Setbacks of Regional Mediation Religion and Public Health in Africa Emerging Dissonance: Understanding Challenges for the Political Opposition in Gabon, 2009-2015 Elections in Authoritarian Regimes: Kenya and Tanzania Compared 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Saudi Linkage Succession: The New Rules of Succession in the House of Saud and the New Saudi Foreign Policy Elite Family Organizations in the Fertile Crescent: A New Analysis Repression or Concessions? Explaining Authoritarian Survival Strategies in Jordan The Fate of Syria’s Notables in Cold War Syria: The Case of the Atassi Family 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Jihadi Blowback in the Arab Gulf Monarchies Coping on the Front Line: The Impact of Sunni Jihadis on Lebanon and Jordan The Islamic State’s Attempt to Export Outside Syria and Iraq 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Palestinian Engagement with the International Criminal Court: From Preliminary Examination to Investigation? Jerusalem of Hate: A Profile of the Al-Quds “Intifada” The One-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict The Mosque, the Kaffia and the Gun: Fatah Movement Identity Politics 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Born at a Disadvantage: Syria’s Inherent Problems of Demography and Geography French Steamship Harbors in Beirut, 1836: Historiography of a Levantine City Lebanon and the Phoenician Myth of Origin The Use of the Ancients in Constructing National Identities: Canaanites and Nabateans in Israel, Jordan and Palestine 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Chinua Achebe: African Literature and the Politics of Writing in Africa Kwame Nkrumah’s Strategies for African Unity and their Impact on Inter-African States’ Relations 2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Ofra Bengio, Tel Aviv University Sinam Mohamad, Co-President, People’s Council for Western Kurdistan Muslih Mustafa, Soran University Arash Saleh, Representative of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan to the United States Nahro Zagros, Soran University 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m The Kurdish Women of Rojava: Building a Nation Amidst the Chaos of War Domesticating the Holy: Women for the Temple and the (In)Divisibility of Contested Sacred Places Lesser Citizens, Lesser Beings: Turkish Women’s Ongoing Struggle for Equality in the 21st Century New Turkey: A Burdening Ideal on Women’s Shoulders 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m Religious Pluralism in Istanbul in the 1720s? Questions for the Future From Holy War to Technocracy, 1571-1924: The Spanish and Ottoman Empires in the Mediterranean The 1934 Anti-Jewish Thrace Riots: The Jewish Exodus of Thrace Through the Lens of Nationalism and Collective Violence Crypto-Jews and Judeo-German Finance: Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories, the British Press, and the Outbreak of War between Britain and the Ottoman Empire in 1914 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m Jewish Christianity, the Qur’ān, and Early Islam: Some Methodological Caveats From a Christian (Ebionite?) Verus Propheta to the Muslim Seal of the Prophets 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Abrogation in Islam: Nasikh wa-Mansukh Hermeneutics in al-Muzani’s Mukhtasar and al-Shirazi’s al-Tanbih Is Democracy Compatible With Islam? Searching for the Man of Peace: Traditional, Cultural, Islamic Mediation 4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Working with African Militaries ‘Fighting’ the Culture in Yemen and Iraq Partnering and Cultural Misperception in Helmand Province U.S. Military Training: The Big Picture 8:00 p.m. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31Breakfast 8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Sovereignty, Territory, and De Facto Statehood in the Middle East and North Africa The Evolution of Political Islam in the Middle East and the Democratization Processes of the Arab Spring Cognitive Liberation: Violent and Nonviolent Expressions of Liberation in the Case of the Arab Spring Revolutionary Movements in Tunisia and Libya 8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Political Succession and Conflict in Africa Sexual Exploitation & Abuse in UN Peacekeeping Missions: A Case Study of MONUC & MONUSCO Uganda: Perfection of Post-Conflict Stability or Ticking Time Bomb? 8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Democratization and Alliance Preferences: The Case of Turkey-Israel Explaining Erdoğan’s Quest for Presidentialism: A Veto Players Framework New Tools in Turkish Political Science and Public Policy: The Policy Agendas Project Turkey 8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Painting Down the Barricades: Public Art and Resistance Between Online and Offline Spaces in Egypt Reading Khedival Khayamiya: Understanding the Epigrams of the Egyptian Tentmakers Adopting and Transmitting the Values of Egypt’s 1952 Revolution: The Transformation of Ana Hurra (‘I Am Free’) from Novel to Film Urban Egyptian Men and Women and the Negotiation of Conflicting Gender Ideologies 8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Exploiting Ignorance in the Post Subversion Phase: Assessing What ISIS Wants in Light of the ‘Countering Violent Extremism’ Narrative Muhammad Taught Us How to Fight Hydrological Warfare in the Middle East: the Islamic State Blue-eyed Jihad – The Caliphate’s Foreign Legion 8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Home, Identity, and Place in Maha Hassan’s Drums of Love What Do Films Tell Us about Rich Muslim Girls? Video Productions in Tachelhit: Site of Contestation Clashes Between Intellectuals and the Regime in Monarchic Iraq as Reflected in Two Short Stories from the 1950s 8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. The Re-Ghettoization of Armenian Christians in the Islamic Republic of Iran Minorities in Islamist States Re-thinking Ritual: The Mandaeans The “Nasara” in the Quran: A Window into Middle Eastern Christianity in the 7th and 21st Centuries 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. The Jews and Christians of Pre-Islamic Yemen (Himyar) and the Elusive Matrix of the Qur’an’s Christology Jewish-Christianity: Category, Error, and the Future of Qur’anic Studies 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. What Made Iraq a Failed State? Neo-Ottomanism and the Kurdish Issue in Turkey: State Policy and Kurdish Response Turkish Staatsvolk vs. Kurdish Identity: Denial of the Kurds in the Turkish School Textbooks Kurdish Nationalism in the Cauldron of War Institutionalization of Pan-Kurdish Discourse in the 20th Century: The Kurdish Republic of 1946 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Lone Wolf Terrorism in the Middle East Land Restitution in Southern Yemen: A Primary Ingredient in the Arab Spring The Middle East Instability and Its Impact on The United States’ Interests The Challenge of Terrorism and Armed Groups in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Middle East Oil and Global Finance: The Role of MENA’s Sovereign Wealth Funds Purchasing Sovereignty:
Sovereignty, Club Goods and the Funding Crisis for Refugee Aid in the Middle East Diversification Policies: How the Inner Circle Plays a Role in Determining Diversification Strategies in Saudi Arabia and Libya 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Legacy of an Exile: How Al-Shabaab was Inspired by and Learned from Osama bin Laden Pockets of Anarchy: Radicalization and Terrorism in Sub-Saharan Africa 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Re-Thinking Urban Informality: Political and Social Life in Morocco’s Slum and Informal Areas The Missing Maghreb: The Kingdom of Morocco as a Pivotal State in the Middle East – A Case Study of Morocco’s Relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran Beyond the Saharan Cloak: Uncovering Jewish Identity from Southern Morocco and Throughout the Sahara Taking Up Space: Political Party Progress and Change in Post-Arab Spring Morocco 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Participatory Development and its Multiple Facets: The Case of Morocco Probabilities of Preservation of the Assyrian Presence in the Middle East Fragments of Lives Arrested; A Memoir of Lebanon’s Jewish Community 12:30 p.m. 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Identity of New Generation in Iran and Iran’s Foreign Policy Understanding the Rogue State Concept: The Iranian Case The Islamic Republic of Iran: Between Theocracy and ‘Clerical Fascism’ (Emergence and Evolution: 1978 – 1988) 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. The Contagiousness of Regional Conflict: A Middle East Case Study Jerusalem (and the Holy Places): How a Stillborn Plan to Demilitarize and Internationalize Holy Places Became an Enduring Political and Diplomatic Gambit Centered on Jerusalem A Comparative Study on Leading Factors of Iranian Messianic Movements: Al-Muqqanna and Bab The Race Between the Eagle and the Bear: A Historic Perspective on Conflicting US-Russian Interests and Hegemony in the Middle East in the 1960’s and Early 1970’s 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. The Monk Encounters the Prophet: The Story of the Encounter Between Monk Bahīra and Muhammad as it is Recorded in the Syriac Manuscript of Mardin 259/2 Common Trends in Saint Veneration: Commemorations of Rumi, Hadji Bektaş Veli, and Nasraddin Hodja Since the Twentieth Century The Early Islamic Caliphate (11-65/632-685): A Non-Existing Institution Together on the Way to the Monastic Church of Mīt Damsīs: Copts and Muslims at the Mūlid of Saint George in Medieval Islamic Egypt and Beyond 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Regional and Entrepreneurial Migration of Lebanese in West Africa: Case Studies in Dakar, Abidjan and Ouagadougou Race and Slavery: Senegal in the Era of Abolition Mobile Phone Technology and Religious Mediation: NASFAT and Christ Embassy in Comparative Perspective Navigating Mobilities: Chinese Migrants on the Roads in Lagos 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. The Moroccan Merchant Diaspora: New Approaches to the Nineteenth Century Jihadism, De-Radicalization, and the Monarchy: Exploring the Case of Morocco Between Europe and Africa: Morocco as a Country of Immigration Allah (God), al-Watan (the Nation), al-Malik (the King) and the Role of Ijtihād in Family Law Reforms of Morocco 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Lost Work, Lost Cause? The Rehabilitation of Jaʿfar al-Khuldī and the Sufi Archive Rereading the Qur’an – Challenging Traditional Authority: Political Implication of Contemporary Qur’an Scholarship Abū ‘Alā al-Ma’arrī’s Reception: A Poet or an Unbeliever? 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Nasser’s Political Legacy and its Implication for the Sino-Egyptian Relations The Dragon and the Lion: Twists and Turns of the Sino-Israeli Relations, 1948-2015 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. President Obama, Just War and War with ISIS: Examining the Historical Christian Ethic of War and its Relevance to the Ongoing Conflict Against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) The Revolutionary Guards: From Spoilers to Supporters of the Nuclear Deal The Caliphate’s Gold: The Islamic State’s Monetary Policy and its Implications Shopping for Armageddon: A Supply-Demand Analysis of Nuclear and Radiological Terror of Islamists Groups 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Iraqi Jewry’s ‘Second Exile’ in International History Baghdadi Jews and the Foreign Press: The Case of E. Levy People on the Peripheries: The Situation of Jewish Women in North Africa During World War II 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Architecture of Peace Evolution of Digital Repertoires of Action in Iran The Iranian Common Memory of the 1980s, An Aesthetics of Changing Perception Public Squares: A Place of Memory – A Message of Democracy 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. From Enmity to Amity, Hafez al-Assad and The Arab Tribes in Syria from 1970 until 2000 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. The Origins of Genocide and Mass Killing: A Spatial Model of Génocidaires Military Network Structures and Authoritarian Resilience |