Eleventh Annual ASMEA Conference ScheduleTHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2 7:30 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. The Concept of “Bargaining Chips” in Israeli POW Policy Israeli and Palestinian Presents: A Temporary Arrangement in the West Bank Socializing the PLO: Testing a Bargaining Framework Based on a New Non-State Actor Typology When Theology Meets Reality: Hamas between Political Islam and Palestinian Nationalism 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Contextual Analysis of Bakongo People’s Identity Based on 2017 Political Changes of DRC: Based on Muanda Nsemi, BDK and BDM Engineered “Zuluness”: Language, Education, and Ethnic Identity Formation in South Africa, 1835-1990 Equatorial Guinean Exiles During the Macías Dictatorship, 1968-1979 Decolonizing the BSAC in Nyasaland: Economic and Developmental Implications, 1944-1967 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Transitional Justice in Tunisia: When Religion Meets State Secularizing the Law of God? Family Law and Voting Behavior in Tunisia Democratization under Islamic Parties: Explaining Success and Failure 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. An Intifada or a Suicide Epidemic? The Wave of Lone Wolf Attacks in Israel, Oct. 2015 – Sep. 2016 Syria between Lebanon and the Balkans: The (Weak) Case for Multilateralism Syria – Beyond the Civil War – Where to? 8:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Why Quotas Matter: Gender Quotas and Popular Perceptions of Women Leaders in the Muslim World Muslim Women and the Rise of the New Expository Misogyny Spaces Unveiled: Everyday Life and Gendered Spaces in the Contemporary Women’s Cinema of the Middle East Early Modern Ottoman Writers and the Female Rage against Patriarchal Oppression 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Iran’s Proxy Wars: Limits to a Successful Strategy? What is Khomeinism? Iran in the GCC crisis: its role, risks and opportunities in the volatile political context 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Coptology and its Role in Preserving Coptic Heritage Starting from the Late 19th Century The Emigration of the Christians from the Arab Middle East – A New Reading Causes of Copts’ Persecution in Egypt Christians in Syria and Iraq: Militarization and the Search for Political Autonomy 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Understanding the ADF’s Practice of Violence in the Congo – an Islamist Revolt, or Borderland-Based Grievances? The Role of Technology in the French Conquest of Africa 1871-1914 The Domestication of al-Shabaab A Reinterpretation of Ugandan General Idi Amin’s Coup d’etat According to Declassified British Archival Sources 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Jihadist-Inspired Attacks Against Jewish Targets in the United States: 1989-2018 The Role of the Western Mainstream Media in Encouraging Global Jihad 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Political Trust in Non-Consolidated Democracies: The Turkish Case in Comparative Perspective Deliberating in Difficult Times: Lessons from Public Forums in Turkey in the Aftermath of the Gezi Protests The 6-7 September Anti-Greek Riots through the Lens of Nationalism and Collective Violence Fear and Anger as Political Assets: Left vs. Right-Wing Populism in Greece and Turkey 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Hybrid Warfare in the Middle East: Assessments of Russian and Iranian Force Employment The Roundabout Outcomes of the Soviet-Afghan War Changing security architecture in the Middle East: assessing causes and challenges and Russia’s rising role The Russian Media as a Promoter of the State Interests: The Case of the Military Conflict in Syria 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Israel’s Immigration Policies and the Promotion of Genetic Testing: Empiricizing Definitional Criteria, Bolstering State Demographic Security, or Hastening the Messianic Era? Public Purposes at Cross-Purposes: When Integration Produces Segregation and What We Can Learn from Israel Becoming Orthodox in Israel – Druze-Style From Mandate to State: Planning the Institutions and Policies of Israeli Statehood, 1947-1948 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Negotiating ‘Annoba’ Life in the Wake of Boko Haram’s Terror Beyond Kalashnikovs, Motorcycles, and Cellphones in the Sahara-Sahel: Boko Haram and its Affiliates are not Easily Defeated Heresy, Apostasy and Unbelief: The Discursive Traditions of Takfīr in Hausaland and Bornu (1700-2017) 2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Menachem Begin’s Lebanese Policy: between Holocaust and Heroism The Risky Business of Water Allocation: Domestic and International Pressures for Water Management in Israel Strange Bedfellows: Israel and Saudi Arabia, from the Cold War to the Present Israel in the Middle East: Between Arab Spring, Islamic Winter and Iranian Summer – Challenges and Opportunities 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Context-Specific Policies and Communitarianism: What We Can Learn From Neo-Traditional Policies in Rwanda Chasing the “East Asian Miracle” in Africa?: A Case Study Analysis of the Rwandan Governance Reforms since 2000 A Pericentric View of the 1925 Cession of Jubaland 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. New Normativism – Islamist Foreign Policy and the Case of Turkey The Erdoğanization of Turkish Politics and the Role of Opposition Contemporary Water Conflicts and Resistance in Turkey’s Black Sea Region Organizational Cultural and Structural Sources of the Turkish Military’s Enduring Interventionism 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. The Caliphate’s Last Act: The Rise and Fall of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Extraordinary Amnesia: Alliance, Defection, and the Sunni Insurgent-Al Qaeda-ISIS Nexus in Iraq Effects of Terrorism on Labor Market: A Case Study of Iraq 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Currency Warfare in the Middle East: The Currency Counterfeiting Weapon in three Middle Eastern Conflicts, The 1953 Iranian Coup, the 1990-1991 Gulf War, and the Yemen Civil War (2014-2018) Why the Arabs Lose Wars…Twenty Years Later The Failure of Local Powers to Build Cohesive Regional Coalitions in the Middle East – Causes and Consequences Hijrah and the Syrian Refugee Crisis 4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3 7:30 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Piracy Prosecutions in Kenyan Courts Language Policy as Power Play: Kenyatta’s Imposition of Kiswahili on the Kenyan National Assembly Globalization and Mineral Exploitation: A Case Study of the Controversial Kwale Titanium Mining Project, Kenya. 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. “The Moriscos” Muslim Survivors in the Iberian Peninsula after 1502 The Forgotten Revolution – Digital Networks and Palestinian Youth Activism During 2011-2013 Terrorism Between the Colonial Past and Present: Freedom Fighting, Terrorism and Martyrdom in Algerian and Palestinian Literature 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Revisiting Arab Tribalism To Modernize or not to Modernize? Biographical Approaches to Science and Imperialism in late 19th Century Morocco ‘Certainties and Uncertainties’ at a Time of Reconstruction: A First Glimpse into Gertrude Bell’s Unedited Papers Re-considering the Informal Effects of Colonial Rule in French Mandate Lebanon 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. “Female Voices on Ink”: The Sexual Politics of Petitions in Colonial Igboland, 1892-1960 Gender and Social Accountabilities in Rural Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Women and Emergency Communal Labor During the Mau Mau War, 1953-1960 Performing Infertility: Kaneleng Women and Infertility in The Gambia 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. North Korean Proliferation Activities in Syria Pursuing All Around Advantage: Chinese Arms Sales in the Middle East Who’s Afraid of the Belt and Road Initiative? 8:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Can the European Union be a security provider in the Middle East? Willy Brandt, the Arab world and West Germany’s “Mediterranean Moment”, 1967-1973. The Beginnings of Political Islam in Switzerland: Said Ramadan’s Muslim Brotherhood Mosque in Geneva and the Swiss Authorities 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Administrative Law, Good Governance and Redefining the Public Good: Emergent Trends in the Middle East Internationalization of the Libyan Conflict: Reinforcing Loops between Spatial Spillovers, External Interventions and Systemic Escalation Pivotal Moments and Post-Arab Uprising Pathways: The Political Consequences of Vetting Choices in Tunisia and Libya 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Minorities Under Islamists in Power: The Case of Sudan The Sudanese Experiment: Military Reconstruction in Sudan 1972-1983 Education in a Time of War: The Experiences of Victims of Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe Terrorist Threats, General Budget Support, and State Capacity Building in Sub-Saharan Africa 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Fatimids Fighting over Jerusalem: An Inter-religious or Intra-religious Matter? The Capture of Jerusalem by the Muslims: A Military Conquest or a Gift of Allah? 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Artawiya and the Wahhabi Revival in Ibn Saud’s Consolidation of Arabia Saudi Women Driving Change: Re-branding, Resistance and the Kingdom of Fun? The Usage of Custom in the Contemporary Legal System of Saudi Arabia: Divorce on Trial 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Sri Lanka and the Middle East Sino-Arab Trade and Technology Relations: Characteristics, Progress and Implications New East Mediterranean Gas Discoveries and the Future of Alliances in the Middle East The Location Determinants of Arab Foreign Direct Investment in Africa 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Qutb’s Hakimiyyah Through the Lens of Arendtian Authority Hermeneutics in the Genre of Mukhtasar God’s Mystic Revisited: Dhu’l-Nūn al-Misrī thought and its Late Antique Context 12:15 p.m. 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. “It is in Your Fitrat to Die:” Neoliberal Conservatism, Strengthening the Traditional Family and Women’s Right to Life in Turkey Understanding Influence in the Muslim Intellectual Space in Contemporary Turkey A Critical Comparison between the Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet İṣleri Baṣkanlığı) and the Office of Shaykh al-Islām Where Did It Go Wrong: Islamism, Post-Islamism And Muslimism In Islamic Civil Society In Turkey 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Azerbaijani National Identity in Iran: Roots, Development, and Limits Understanding Ethnically-Framed Conflicts: An Analysis of the Portrayals of Arabs in Iranians’ Speech A Family in Iran: Women Teachers, Minority Integration and Family Networks in the Jewish Schools of the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Iran, 1900-1950 Civil War Intervention and Economic Statecraft: The Case of Iran in Syria 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. The Merit of Personal Diplomacy: A New Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East? The Art of Great Power Diplomacy in the Middle East: The American Efforts to Court Worthy Regional Allies U.S. Response to the Tunisian Revolution Assessment of President Donald Trump One Year Foreign Policy, and Public Digital Diplomacy toward the Middle East 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Negotiating and Performing Moroccan Identities: Second- and Third-Generation of Moroccan Jewish Immigrants to Israel Linguistic Othering is the Sharpest Tool in the Tool Shed to Build Ibn Khaldun’s ʕasˁabiyya Sacred and Ritual Materiality: Death, Textiles, and Material Culture in Islamicate Societies Mulid and Mahragan: Invoking Spirituality and Popular Authenticity in Egyptian Music and Dance 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Parthian era Amazons? Placing the Weapons finds at Vestemin in Historical Context Between Byzantium and Iran: Caucasian peoples and the Arab-Islamic conquests The Aim of Warfare in al-Waqidi’s Kitab al-Maghazi The Historical Roles of Jihad in Sunni-Shiite Relations 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Elections, Responsible Political Leadership, and Good Governance: An Agenda for a Democratic Nigeria The ‘CFOP institution’ in Burkina Faso: Palliative Polarization Despite Opposition Fragmentation The Evolution of Parties in Africa: A Problem-Based Approach Cellular Technology and National Sovereignty in Africa 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. A Sentiment Analysis of People attitude about Kurdistan Independent Referendum Turkey’s Kurdophobia: Prospects and Challenges for Turkish Policy 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Ankara’s Nuclear Future and Turkey’s Energy Security Hydro-Carbon Matrix and the Mission İmpossibility: Can the Actors Present in East Mediterranean behave along the Requirements of Absolute Gain? Limits of Hybridization in Syria: Return of State Actors and Possible Outcomes 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Political Power in Cultural Infrastructure: Heritage Policy and Outcomes in Republican Era Istanbul Antoine Köpe’s Ways of Seeing – Memoirs of a Foot Soldier in the Middle East Invented Traditions and Evolution of Turkish National Identity in the Early Twentieth Century National Democratic Revolution, Agrarian Relations and Violent Extremism in Turkey During the Cold War 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Investigating regime survival in Arab monarchies Do Middle Eastern Leaders Learn from Political Crises? Empirical Evidence from the Post-Arab Uprisings Era From Co-optation to Aggressive Legitimation: The Evolution of Saudi Regime Survival Strategies in the Wake of the Arab Spring Role Theory in the Middle East and North Africa/ Measuring the Public Opinion on Turkish Foreign Policy: Global, Regional and Local Preferences 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Progression of Orthographic Features: MĀʾIL Through D Style Qur’an Manuscripts, Some Observations Setting the Record Straight: Early Abbasid Qurʾān Recitation Traditions and Scribal Practices The Omani web Qurʾān: www.MushafMuscat.om |