Seventh Annual ASMEA Conference ScheduleTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 306:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 317:45 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Panel 1: Israel and Hamas: Reaching In and Out Qardawi, Hamas and the “Arab Spring” Israel’s International Squadron Israel-Hamas New-Media Wars (2008-2014): Does New-Media Win the International Public’s Hearts and Minds? Between Two Intifadas: Fatah and Hamas Socio-Political Clashes in the Palestinian Campuses Panel 2: Explaining Today’s Egypt Coup or Revolution? Word Choice and Egypt’s 2013 Popular Uprising Against President Morsi What Went Wrong?: Brotherhood Perspectives on the Causes of Democratic Breakdown in Egypt The Coptic Diaspora and the Status of the Coptic Minority in Egypt The Power Struggle Between the Military and the Islamists -The Future of Egypt Panel 3: Identity, Faith and Rights in the Turkish Republic Ethics of Populist Politics in Contemporary Turkey: A Comparative Analysis of Conservative Islam in the Middle East Turkish Nationalism and Non-Muslim Minorities During the Early Republican Period (1923-1950) Islamists and Women’s Rights: Lessons from Turkey Silence in Official Representations of Turkish History: Implications for National Identity and Minority Rights 8:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Roundtable B: “Trends in Antisemitism in the Middle East” 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Panel 4: Israel at War and Peace The Development of Israel’s POW Policy: The 1967 War as a Test Case Cold War, Hot Summer: Superpower Involvement in the War of Attrition in 1970 Pax Israeliana: An Unintended Consequence of Israeli Policy Israel, Jordan, and Their Efforts to Frustrate the UN Resolutions to Internationalize Jerusalem Panel 5: Lebanon and the Region: Borders Real and Imagined The Role of Leadership in Transitional States: The Cases of Lebanon, Israel-Palestine Social Origins of Sectarianism in the Arab Middle East The Beirut Jewish Community and Early Twentieth Century Lebanese Nationalism Panel 6: Networks of Identity in Africa From West Africa to Mecca and Jerusalem: The Tijāiniyya on the Hajj Routes The Emergence of Nation and the Persistence of Tribe in Sub-Saharan Africa: Gaborone, Botswana and Harare, Zimbabwe Islam and Competing World Orders in West Africa During the Cold War Simulation Exercises as an Aid for Teaching State Formation in Africa Panel 7: Early Messaging: Christians, Jews, and Muslims The Rejection of Muhammad’s Message by Jews and Christians and Its Effect on Islamic Theological Argumentation Hijrah – Muslims Living in Non-Islamic States: the Attitude of the Sharī‘ah Discerning the True Religion in the Apologetical Discourses of Gerasimus Crafting a Sunni Past in Early Islamic North Africa 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Panel 8: Constructing Anti-Israelism in the Middle East Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Between Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism Deir Yassin: The Complete Story Palestinians, Arabs, and the Holocaust Panel 9: Narratives and Memory of Early Islamic Society [Part I] Myth and Memory in Islamic narratives: Saʿd and Abū Miḥjan at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah Why Does Anyone Listen to Abu Bakra? A Study in Authority and Historical Memory Jonah and the Ninevites: Prophecy to Communal Outsiders in Early Islam Panel 10: Contested Issues in the Wake of the “Arab Spring” Energy and International Order: Putin’s Russia in the Post-Saddam Middle East The “Jew” as a Metaphor for Evil in Arab Public Discourse The Quest for Legitimacy in Post-Revolutionary Egypt: Propaganda and Controlling Narratives Defending the Faithful: The Religio-Ideological Discourse of Iraqi Shiʿi Militias fighting in Syria and Iraq Panel 11: Economics, Interventions, and Law Study of Inhuman Punishments for Consensual Homosexual Acts in the Middle East and West: Comparative Perspective Population and Economic Activities of the Non-ruling Classes in the Trucial Arab Emirates: The 1901 Census Jurisprudential Engineering in Two Middle Eastern Secular-Religious Countries: Between Sanhuri’s enterprise of incorporating Islamic Law in Egypt and the invention of Hebrew Law (Mishpat Ivri) in Mandatory Palestine 2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Panel 12: The March to Power: Feminism and Female Leaders The Kurdish Women’s Revolution Models of Feminism: Tunisia’s Opportunity to Overcome the Secular/Islamist Binary A Female Religious Authority at the Intersection of Nationalism, Islamism, Secularism and Globalization in Turkey: Cemalnur Sargut Panel 13: Iraq and Yemen: The Price of Internal Conflict Between Iraq and a Hard Place: Assyrians in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region and the ‘Disputed Territories’ Protecting Yemen’s Heritage for the Future: Investigating Aspects of the Illicit Trade in Antiquities from South Arabia Panel 14: West Africa: Tribes and Traditions Homosexuality: Yoruba Traditional and Contemporary Cultural Perspectives Speech that Takes on Body and Shape: The World as Manifestation of Spirit in West African Religions Abusive Husbands and Complaining Wives: Divorce Hearings in the Muslim Court of Colonial Bathurst, the Gambia, 1905-1935 Panel 15: Ottomans, Interlocutors and Descendents Ending Ottoman Misrule: British Soldiers, Liberal Imperialism and the First World War in Palestine Descendants of Slaves: People of African Origin in Turkey Naval Reformation in the Ottoman Empire: The Case of Henry Eckford Tevye’s Ottoman Daughter: Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews at the End of Empire 4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Roundtable E: “The Middle East: New Political Arrays, Old Complications” 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. 8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Panel 16: Progress and Inclusion in Morocco Feminist Theology: the Case of Asma Lamrabet Jewish Minority in Nineteenth Century Morocco: A Culture and an Engine of Modernity Dynamic Belonging: Moroccan Jews and the Development of Nationalist Narratives in French Protectorate Morocco Constitutional Reform in Morocco Panel 17: Love and Jihad in Modern Iran The Sigha – Nikah Muta’s Origins and Its Practice in Modern Iran The Overseas Operations of the Iranian Construction and Agricultural Jihad in Sub-Saharan Africa (1984-2009) Panel 18: Middle East War and Diplomacy The Limits of the Sandhurst Connection: The Evolution of Oman’s Foreign and Defense Policy, 1970-1977 At the Beginnings of the ‘Cold War’: Reflections on Iranian and Turkish Crises Rome’s Eastern Foreign Policy 324-502 Panel 19: Justice in Africa: The Record and Controversies Surrounding the International Criminal Court Is the International Criminal Court Anti-African? The Trust Fund for Victims: Evaluations and Recommendations on Becoming the Global Victim Aid Expert The International Criminal Court and Gender Issues in Africa Panel 20: Topics in Language and Culture Social Implications of the Study of Language Change in Arabic Memories of Baghdad: Depictions of the City in the Works of Opposition Intellectuals Before Babel: Language as an Ethnic Marker in the Ancient Near East The Jinn and Causality in the Modern Middle East Panel 21: Order, Punishment, and Society Contesting Method. Muslim Responses to the Application of the Historical-Critical Approach to the Qur’ān Islamicate Societies: A Case Study of Egypt and Muslim India Blinding and Mutilation: Methods of Suppression of Political Rivals in the Islamic World 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Panel 22: Hostile Actions and Strategies of Response Successes and Failures of the U.S. and NATO Intervention in Libya Post-defeat State Behavior and the Collapse of Deterrence Regimes: A Rational Choice Perspective Foolhardy in Middle Eastern Foreign Policy: The American Fallacy of Using Drone Targeted Killings to Decrease Terrorism Urban and Rural Militia Organizations in Syria’s Less Governed Spaces Panel 23: Establishing Control Through the Arts in Iran Towards a Social History of Persian Painting: Artisan Guilds and the Symbolic Order in Early Safavid Iran The Battle to Control Women’s Body: Dress Code, Gender, Sensuality and Sexuality in Post-Revolutionary Iran The Public Sphere and Civic Participation: What Can Murals Say in an Islamitized Urban Space? Panel 24: Narratives and Perceptions of the Mediæval World [Part II] From Settlement to Symbol: al-Qadisiyyah and the Dehistoricisation of Memory in Mediæval Geographies, Narratives, Sermons, and Poetry Christian Perceptions of Muslims and Islam and Their Impact on European Jews During the Crusades The Retrospective Islamicisation of Islamic history and the Invention of the Concept of Islamic Civilization Panel 25: Nelson Mandela: Ubuntu Philosophy, Social Activism and the Enduring Legacy of Civil Rights Leadership Ubuntu Philosophy and Global Leadership National Unity and Political Stability Nelson Mandela: The Enduring Legacy of Moral and Political Leadership Rhetorical Analysis on Mandela Speeches Panel 26: Responses to the Arab Spring Oil and Democracy in Algeria: Why has the Arab Spring Passed it By? Anabaptised ‘Moderate’: The Rise of ‘Moderate Islamism’ in Post-January 2011 Tunisia and the Challenges of Democratic Transition Russian Foreign Policy on the Middle East After the Arab Spring: Adjusting to a New Political Vista Will Egypt Become a Failed State? Panel 27: Smooth Operators: Maintaining Ethiopia’s Political Class Domestic Sources of International Action: Ethiopia and the Global War on Terrorism External Factors and Their Impact on Internal Political Dynamics in Ethiopia 12:30 p.m. 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Panel 28: Iraq: Saddam and Post-Saddam Was Saddam’s Islamic Faith Campaign (1993-2003) Anti-Religious? Did Saddam Ba`thize Islam or did he Islamize the Ba`th? Autocrats, Bureaucrats, and Iraq’s ‘Fumbling’ Toward the Bomb Who Lost Iraq? ISIS’ Sunni Revolution in Iraq Panel 29: The Political Utility of Islam The Political Economy of Religion and Authoritarian Breakdown Understanding Contemporary Islamism as a Nationalist Ideology Party System Religiosity and the Quality of Democracy in Predominantly Muslim Countries Contentious Politics in the Arab Middle East: Islamism and the Social Appropriation of Tradition Panel 30: The Price of Conflict in Africa The Build-Up of the Eastern Africa Standby Force: Balancing African Needs with Donor Interests Why Deploy To, and Perhaps Die In, Somalia? Post-Conflict Economic Development in Liberia Economic Survival and Borderland Rebellion: The Case of the Allied Democratic Forces on the Uganda-Congo Border Panel 31: Atoms and Hostages: Iran and the U.S. Atomic Diplomacy and the Iranian Crisis: The Birth of a Global Cold War Political Economy of US-Iranian Relations (2005-2014) The Carter Administration’s Handling of the 1978-1979 Iranian Revolution: An Examination and Contextualization of Interdependent Foreign Policies The Desacralization of Post-Khomeini Iran Panel 32: Peacemaking, Prosecutions, and Transitions in Eastern Africa International Criminal Prosecutions and Atrocities in DRC: A Case Study of the FDLR A House Divided: Testing Theories of Genocide in Rwanda and Burundi Unpacking Neopatrimonialism: Rules, Institutions and Democratic Transition Homeward Bound: Migration and Peacebuilding in South Sudan and Burundi Panel 33: Inspired Political Visions: Egypt, Iran, and Iraq The Kurdish Officers and the Middle Class in the Hashemite Iraq Ahmadinejad’s Apocalyptic Style and Sacralisation of Politics in Iran Toward the African Revolution: The United Arab Republic’s Role in Pan-Africanism The Rashid ʿAli al-Kaylani Revolt and Syrian Youth: An Insider’s Account 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Panel 34: Living with Conflict, Crime and Terror Operational Aftermath: Measuring the Threat of Transnational Terrorism Through Attack Efficiency The Strategic Logic of Unclaimed Terrorism US Military Interventions in Intrastate Conflict: Path Dependence and Colonial Legacies Panel 35: Processes of Progress in Africa Egyptians Or Nubians? The Plight of Nubian Egyptians and Arab Nationalism 20 Years of Democracy: The Role of Party Politics in Malawi The Role of Aid in the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Congo Protestant Relief Agency, 1960-1964 Panel 36: Economics and Culture in the M.E. and Africa The Logistics of Extortion: A Multi-Level Inquiry Into Corruption Along West Africa’s Main Trade Corridors The Sahrawi—An Investigation of Their ‘National’ Identity from Ancient Origins Until 1524 Natural Resources and the Politics of Economic Diversification in Rentier States: An Expenditure-centered Framework to Explain Regime Survival Urban Area and Hinterland: The Case of Abadan 1910-1946 Panel 37: State and Society in the Middle East: Can it Work? Arab Burdens Democratizing Tunisia’s Security Sector Explaining the ‘Democracy Deficit’ in the Arab World: Is the Resurgence of Islam the Problem? The United Nations and Genocide Prevention: The Problem of Racial and Religious Bias Panel 38: Topics on the Middle East The Dynamics of Lebanon’s Democratization The First Republic of the Islamic World: The Establishment of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan in 1918 Manufacturing Subjectivity: The Establishment of Baghdad Television, 1952-1958 Panel 39: Turkey and Iran: Politics Foreign and Domestic Rivalry, Enmity, or Amity? Turkey-Iran Cooperation Resisting Hegemony in the Iranian Nuclear Crisis and the Future Geopolitical Mapping of the Middle East: The Cases of China, Russia, and Turkey Measuring Political Polarization in Turkey Clientelistic Continuity and Attitudinal Change in Turkey |