Conference Schedule*This is subject to change. Saturday, November 133:00 - 4:30 pm 4:30 - 5:30 pm 6:00 - 6:30 pm 6:30 - 8:00 pm Sunday, November 14 7:30 am 8:30 – 10:00 am Panel 1: States and Security in Africa, Session 1 The Impact of Democracy on Human Development in Africa Rainfall as an Instrument? Revisiting Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa A New Center-Periphery Dynamic? COVID-19’s Effect on Fragile States’ Relationships with their Borderlands Panel 2: Arab-Israeli Peace Processes, Inside and Outside “Let My Soul Die Together”: Existential Emotions in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict The Middle East Riddle: A Study of the Peace Process and Israeli/Arab Relations in Changing Times The Fatah-Hamas Rift: An Analysis of Failed Negotiations German Political Foundations and the Israeli–Palestinian peace process through promoting energy transition Panel 3: Iran and Its Internal and External Enemies Gender Discrimination in the Capital Punishment System of Iran The Antisemitic Foundation of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s Revolutionary Ideology Iran's Soft War - The Islamic Republic's Propaganda Outlets and Think Tanks Bernard Lewis Memorial Prize Submission Presentations (Session 1) Islam and Judaism: Religious Attitudes and Identity in the Medinan Era The Roots of Muslim anti-Judaism and its Links to Modern Arab Antisemitism Turkey's Islamists, Antisemitism, and the Palestinian Question, 1908-1950 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Panel 4: States and Security in Africa, Session 2 Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: Post-Presidency Experiences, 1994-1997 Jihad, Gas and Governance? The Insurgency in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique Security Force Assistance at the Periphery: Examining Legitimacy and Public Cooperation With Regional Militarized Actors War, Patronage, and the Political Economy of the Uganda People's Defense Force Engagements in the Great Lakes Region of Africa Panel 5: Iraq: Aspects of Internal Governance and Violence Metropolitan Battlefields: The Weaponization of Governance in Baghdad From Iraq to the Casbah: Lessons from Regional Urban Operations The Gassing of Iraqi Kurds The Civilian's Dilemma: How Religious and Ethnic Minorities Survived the Islamic State Occupation of Northern Iraq Panel 6: Israel: Security, Leadership, Challenges After Israel's Nationality Law of 2018: Is the "Blood Covenant" Broken for the Druze? Was the 1982 War a Deviation from the Israeli Security Doctrine? A Populist Leader Under Neo-Liberal Logic: On the Leadership pattern of Benjamin Netanyahu in the 2019-2021 Elections The Sermons of Al Aqsa Mosque Bernard Lewis Memorial Prize Submission Presentations (Session 2) The Enemy Within The New Anti-Semitism: Hidden in Plain Sight Anti-Semitism in the Arts: The Mattress Factory Case Study Annals of Zionist Evil: Postcolonial Abomination at Counterpunch 12:30 - 2:00 pm 2:30 – 4:00 pm Panel 7: Israel: Diplomacy and Innovation Israel Science, Technology, and Innovation Policies – A Blueprint for a Successful Future Normalization with Israel: An Analysis of Social Networks Discourse Within Gulf States Bypassing the Professionals: The Abraham Accords and the End of the Gulf Rift Crisis Panel 8: Contesting Visions of War and Peace Global Turf War in Lebanon: Lebanese Elite and Contesting Geographic Visions during the 1958 Lebanon Crisis The War of Famine and the Starvation of Ottoman Mount-Lebanon Kemalist Enlightenment through Literature: Representations of Islam, Islamism, and Patriotism in Reşat Nuri Güntekin’s Green Night The Cipher of the Arab Revolt Panel 9: Foreign Interventions in the Middle East The U.S. State Department vs. Zionist Aspirations, 1947-1948 Principle and Prudence: An Analysis of the United States' Interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq China's Middle East Challenge A Viciously Orchestrated Assault: Why Currency Manipulation Succeeded as a Form of Currency Warfare in the Suez War of 1956 Bernard Lewis Memorial Prize Submission Presentations (Session 3) Comparative Study of Stoning Punishment in the Religions of Islam and Judaism The Crescent and David's Star: A Requiem for Jewish Life in Turkey The Qur'an Problem and Islamism Crossroads of Hatred: Western Anti-Semitic Themes in Iranian Propaganda 4:30 – 6:00 pm Panel 10: Jihad and Islam Heroes of Iran: The Palestinian Islamic Jihad “God’s Righteous Allies” or “Apostate Unbelievers”? The Taliban in the Eyes of the Jihādīs A Comprehensive Structural Typology for Terrorist Groups from Hierarchical to Territorial: Assessing Al Qaeda and the Islamic State’s Organizational Evolution Escaping Atonement in Sunni Islam: Death by Jihad for Deliverance Panel 11: Ideological Warfare Against Israel Angela Davis and Israel as the Queer Intersectional Outsider Orientalism Triumphant: The Birth of Y2K Mind and the Caliphate’s Cognitive War Victory of 2000 The Mediocrity Colonization Project: A Look at Merit Dilution of our Once Great Universities Examining the interrelated secular and theological discourses that delegitimate Israel Panel 12: Africa, From Protests to Violence In the Shadow of Boko Haram: Why Emplacement Matters in the Study of African Mobilities “Let It Be Known that the Feminist Coven Did That”: Nigerian Women’s Activism and Coalition Against Police Brutality During the 2020 #EndSARS Protests Historizing Protest Movements in Nigeria: Continuities and Change Panel 13: Turkey and Its Neighbors Opposition Strategies towards Populism in Turkey: Social Media as an Alternative in 2018 Election? Conflict Here, Cooperation There: Explaining Russian-Turkish Relations State-Building and Borderlands: Control of the Turkish State on an Everyday Level Revising the Montreux Convention: A Key to the Geopolitics of the Black Sea 6:30 pm Monday, November 157:30 am 8:30 – 10:00 am Panel 14: Middle Eastern History History of the Druze in Egypt and Syria before the Mamluk era Between Holy War and Symbiosis in the Horn of Africa: Ethiopia’s Position Between Red Sea Sultanates and Mamluk Egypt (1270-1543) ‘The People have multiplied’, the narrative has multiplied: A Matn-cum-isnād analysis of the Bajīlah’s ‘fourth’ Süleyman’s “Magnificent” Navy During the Later Italian Wars (mid-sixteenth century) Panel 15: Aspects of Stability in Africa Mitigating the Effects of Climate Change in Dryland Environments: Lessons from Central Zimbabwe, 1992-2008 Culture-Bound Psychopathology or Supernatural Reality? A West African Case Study of Psychotherapeutic Strategies for Improving the Welfare of Patients in Spiritual Crisis Women, Marriage, and the Church in Twentieth-Century Zimbabwe Panel 16: Middle Eastern Minorities at Home and Abroad Minorities in Turkey: The Unwanted Citizens Perspectives and Attitudes of Syrian-Kurdish Refugees in Germany on The Middle East Shi'a Community of Georgia: An Historical Overview and Modern Realities Panel 17: Shia Politics in the 20th and 21st Century Red Shi'ism The Sufism of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini: From Mystical Poetry to Judicial Authority Martyrdom and Inventing a new Womanhood in the Iran-Iraq War 9:30 - 10:00 am Live Q&A with Roundtable: Israel's National Security Challenges in a Changing World 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Eliezer Tauber Book Discussion and Signing 12:30 pm 1:00 – 2:30 pm Panel 18: Security in the Middle East: Strategy, Refugees, Tribes, and Investment Keeping a Geostrategic Influence East of the Suez Canal: France Policy in the Indian Ocean Area Conflict, migration and refugees in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): Building human security platforms, local systems, and capacity to protect the vulnerable. Rethinking the tribal voices in Jordan: its role in the national politics, the local community, and social movements Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment in the MENA Region Panel 19: The Iranian Regime and it Rivals Sanctions again? An assessment of Iranian hydrocarbon export opportunities under the latest sanctions regime Justice and Vilāyat in Post-Revolutionary Iranian Shīʿīsm The Mujahedin-e Khalq and the National Council of Resistance of Iran The Islamic Republic of Iran through Russia's Eyes: From Brezhnev to Putin Religious Ideology or Clientelism? Explaining Voter Preferences in Tunisia's Transitional Elections Ten Years of Arab Spring: The Aftermath Democratic Culture and Support for Tunisian Democracy: A Cluster Analysis Panel 21: Security Issues in the Greater Middle East, Past and Present The Strategic, Ideological. Military and Transactional Foundations of the Iran and North Korea “Rogue Alliance”: The North Korean Challenge The Ideological and Transactional Foundations of the Iran and North Korean Strategic Alliance From Oil Stain to Conventional War: France in the Rif Rebellion On-demand PanelsThese panels are available through the conference web and mobile app to registered attendees. Bernard Lewis Memorial Prize Submission Presentations (Session 4) The Jewish Diaspora as a Paradigm: Politics, Religion and Belonging Depicting the Jew in Early Cold War Turkey: The Formation of Israel and the First Arab-Israeli War in Turkish Humor Magazines Islamic Antisemitism. Its Genesis, Meaning, and Effects Africa: Politics and Democracy
State petty corruption and lack of social accountability: other forms and configurations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Hidden in Plain Sight: Interest Group Lobbying under Nigeria’s Military and Civilian Regimes African Democracies and the Democratic Peace: Survey Experiments in Ghana and Nigeria Africa: Politics, Diplomacy, and Gender The Use of Facebook for Political Campaigns In Africa—The Case Of Uganda Sport Diplomacy in African History: Kenya, Apartheid South Africa, and the Politics of Sport of the Early 1980s Do party women’s wings matter for gender representation? Lessons from Tanzania Development, Conflict, and Rights ‘Voices on the Margin’: Rethinking Industrial Development in Postcolonial Malawi Does Land Tenure Explain Majority-Minority Ethnic Conflict? Indigenous versus Immigrant Ethnic Conflict in Africa Church and State in the Struggle for Economic Rights and Human Dignity in Central Africa at the End of Empire Intervention, Transition, and Cooperation Did the Pandemic Revive the “Facebook Revolution” in Morocco? Hybrid Spaces and Forms of Political Engagement After 2011 Algeria's foreign military intervention capability: Lessons from the Middle East and Africa Islamism and Regime Transition in the Middle East and North Africa China-GCC New Energy Cooperation in the New Era Lebanon and Palestine Ontological (In)Security of Hizbullah during the Syrian Crisis Learning the proxy: Hizballah's perception of the Southern Lebanon Army (SLA) during the 1990's The Israeli Art of Reducing Enemy Military capacity: the changing Importance of a Novel strategy in the larger security doctrine Freedom of Expression in the Palestinian Authority: A Fading Illusion? Middle Eastern Politics, Outsider Policies NGO Reinforcement of Europe's Policies on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: 1980-2020 The Struggle for the Middle East - the United States and Russia in the Shadow of the "Arab Spring Minorities From the Outside and Inside The Past is a Foreign Country: Unorthodox Minorities and the Middle Eastern State Minorities in Diaspora: A Study of the Political Mobilization of the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Community in Canada and the United States Is Iran truly capable of gathering the Shia Community under its Mantle? Understanding Islam between Theology and Anthropology: Reflexions on Geertz’s Islam Observed Swinging Between Escalation and Thaw: Crisis and Damage-Control in the Eastern Mediterranean Geopolitics Flexible Alliances in the Eastern Mediterranean: Elements of Escalation or Damage Control? After Mediterraneanizing Competition: Can Turkish-Israel New Re-Normalization be possible? Libyan-Turkish Memorandum on EEZ Delimitation in Eastern Mediterranean and its Perception in Greek Foreign Policy Turkey: Communication and Memory Ontological Security Theory and the echoes of former empires: mnemonic mining in Turkey and Russia The Making of TRT Cinematic Universe: State Media and Political Communication in Turkey Turkey’s New Diaspora-Making Policy and Alevis in Europe Turkish Foreign Relations, Yesterday and Today Multilateral Growing Pains: Transitions and Tensions in U.S.-Turkey Relations Geostrategic Positioning of Turkey in Eurasia in the Twenty-first Century Strategic Partners? Britain’s Relations with Turkey, 1945–2018 Women and Change Egypt After Covid-19: Economic and Social Impacts Social Justice and Greimas’s Semiotic Square: Women in Prison in Salwa Bakr’s The Golden Chariot On-demand RoundtablesChristian Peacemaking During a Time of Cognitive War
From Anti-Zionism to Comprehensive Politicization: The Fate of the University
Israel's National Security Challenges in a Changing World
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