2025 Paper PresentationsBelow is a list of anticipated presentations at the Eighteenth Annual ASMEA Conference. More will be added. A Comradeship-in-Arms? East German-Angolan Military Relations during the Cold War, 1975-1990 A New Perspective on the Impact of Structural and Cultural Shifts on Syrian Refugee Families in Germany Adaptation and Persistence of Authoritarian Regimes in Africa: The Case of Uganda under President Yoweri Museveni Ambivalence in Contemporary Sunni — A Challenge for Western Liberal Democracies? Antisemitism as a Subject of General Discussion: Gatekeepers Say NO Asymmetric Warfare, Legitimacy, and Regional Partnerships: A Sustainable Strategy to Counter the Houthis Attitudes towards Jews in Japan Balancing Ideology and Pragmatism: Hezbollah's Transition to Attrition Warfare in Its Conflict with Israel Between Empire and Development: Arthur Hugh Bunting and the East African Groundnuts Scheme, 1947-1951 Beyond Resources: The Role of Faith and Identity in Shaping Eastern Mediterranean Energy Conflicts “Blow 'Em All Away”: Rape, Race, and Reprisal in North Africa Breaking the Barriers: Turkey and Israel in Syria and the Eastern Mediterranean Brides of the South: Hafez al-Assad's Embrace of Female Suicide Bombers in 1985 Cemetery as a dwelling place: Architecture, spacecraft, and burial grounds in Colonial Onitsha Province, Nigeria Charles de Gaulle in Beirut City of Discontent: The Urban Underbelly in Pre-Revolutionary Iranian Popular Cinema Cocoa in the Gold Coast (Ghana): Indigenous Agency, Colonial Policy, and Foreign Trade Networks in an Evolving Global Economy, 1859—1957 Color Capital: Sociocultural Influences of Skin Bleaching Practices Among Nigerian Women Contemporary Muslim Antisemitism as a Political Ideology Dealing with Artisanal Oil refining: Social Relationships and Governance of Oil in Nigeria's Niger Delta Delegitimizing Israel: the Theological Roots of Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity Democratic Resilience Vs. Democratic Backsliding: A Tale of Two Nations in Times of Political Instability and Insecurity Echoes of War: Comparing Kenyan and Tanzanian Reactions to the October 7 Attack and the Israel-Hamas Conflict Emerging Actors and Democratization in Lusophone Africa Engineering Metabolism: Women, Salt Technologies, and Wartime Science in Biafra Examining the Contribution of Domestic Workers to Work-Family Balance Among Dual-Earner Families in Nairobi City, Kenya Explaining the 2022-2023 Protest Movement in Iran: Internal Migration and Ethnic Identity Femigritude Expression of Colonialism's Lasting Legacy and Gendered Power Dynamics in Postcolonial African Feminism Behind the Veil: Coptic Orthodox Nuns and the Politics of Female Piety in Contemporary Egypt Framing Terrorism for Political Survival: Populist Securitization Strategies in Turkey From Kinship to Condemnation: Rejection, Emotion, and the Qur’an and Sīra’s Rhetoric Against the Jews From Recovery to Reckoning: Feminist Hermeneutics and the Qur'an From Soft Power to Hard Power: The Psychoanalytical Dimension of Turkey's Foreign Policy Under the AKP Geopolitics of Bypassing: Role of Trade Corridors in Shaping Iran's Sanctioned Economy Give Peace a Chance: Could the Yom Kippur War have been Prevented? Hafez Ismail's Talks with the Americans in 1973: A Case Study Governing the Periphery: Ethnic and Sectarian Autonomy in Post Assad Syria Harsh Punishments and the Criminal Justice System of Iran: Between Judicial Corporal Punishment and Penal Alternatives Hejab Strikers: The History and the Relationship between Women's Soccer and National Identity in Iran Henrique Rosa: Insights and Reflections on his Time in Office Iran and the Israel Hamas War: Ideological Commitments and Strategic Setbacks Iskoki Ne… Ko Taa Tabu: Culture, Silence, and Perinatal Distress in Ghana’s Zango Communities Islamist Protests Against Israel in Muslim-Majority Countries: Grievance Competition, Economic Shocks, and Protest History Israeli Conceptions and the Role of Open-Source Intelligence: Between the 1973 Yom Kippur War and the 2023 Hamas Attack Israeli Society from Social Unrest to War in Gaza Morocco's Place in Africa Navigating a Shifting Middle East: Nationalism, Islamism, and the Future of Regional Order North Korea's Role in October 7th Violence and Beyond: Lessons Learned for Future Containment of Proliferation in the Middle East Ottoman Participation in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915) “Our Government is a Threat to our life": Health Material-Semiotic Indeterminacy and Citizens' Response to the Impact of Neoliberal Economic Policies in Nigeria Out of Her League: Israel and the risk of a confrontation with a Global Great power Paper Barriers, Temporal Borders: Kurdish Experiences of the I-485 Process and the Governance of Waiting Post-October 7 Weaponization of Just War Theory: Russia's Strategic Use of Human Rights Rhetoric in the Middle East Pre-October 7 Academic Research on Hamas: Conceptual Fixation and Wishful Thinking Proximity to Atrocity of Two Jewish Soldiers: The Holocaust, the October 7th War & the Role of Art Reframing Peace: Arabic Translations of Moshe Dayan's Memoirs as Sites of Regional Contestation Repercussions of Blacklisting: The Case of Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia Rethinking The Lebanese Civil War in Light of Declassified Archival Sources: Israel, the U.S., the Gemayel Brothers, and Walid Jumblatt Revolution of the Deprived: Relative Deprivation and the Roots of the 1979 Iranian Uprising Saint Veneration in Eastern Thrace: Sacred Groves and Gender Dynamics in Alevi-Bektaşi Tradition Salafism, Medical Pluralism and Religious Performance in the Nigerian Public Sphere Scholars' Purview of Ethiopian History Scottish Missionaries and Development Agenda in the Post-War Era: From the Civilizing Mission to Development Agenda Sino-Arab Nation-building and Cultural Decolonization on Cultural Diplomacy 1955-1966 Sites of Control, Spaces of Resistance: Mau Mau Insurgency, Carceral Geography and Memory in Kenya, 1948-1963 Sub-Saharan Responses to the Gaza-Israel War The Appointment of Women in Religious Judicial Systems in Iran “The Arab-Israelite conquest”: Biblical models and the historiography of the Arab-Islamic expansion The Continuity and Discontinuity of Bediüzzaman Said Nursi’s Influence upon Fethullah Gülen’s Descriptions of Tyrants The Deep State in Egypt: The Politics of a Concept in the Post-Revolutionary Era The Dynamics of Religious Radicalization and Ethnic Identities in the Central African Republic: A Focus on the Seleka Rebels and Anti-Balaka Militias The Fatimid-era Well at al-Jāmiʿ al-Anwar: Revisiting Islamic Architectural Philanthropy in the Middle East and Africa The Impact of the US—China's Global Competition on the Middle East Stability The Implications of the exit of the Sahelian States from ECOWAS “The Israeli 9/11": Arab Media discourse on October 7 and September 11 terror attacks — Comparative Analysis The Lebanese Shi'ite in the Modern Era, in the Trap of Identities The Miami Interfaith Model for Jewish Muslim Dialogue Post-October 7th The Muslim Kurdish Peshmerga: Ideology, Militia Structure, and Role in the Suppression of Kurdish Autonomy in Iran The Omu's Vanishing Realm: Gender, Colonial Legacies, and the Unmaking of Indigenous Market Governance in Anioma, Nigeria, 1910 — 2015 The Palestinization of Human Rights: Al Haq and HRW as Templates The Symbiosis of the Religious and National Militias' Power to Political Power During the Fight for Democracy in Iraq, 2003—2024 The Syrian Spoiler: Undoing the May 17th Accords 1983-1984 The US - KRG Partnership and the Challenges of the Peshmerga Forces Unification after the ISIS Era The Utopian of Syrian Nationalism: Insurmountable Obstacles Thinking about Hiroshima in Baghdad: On a Forgotten Iraqi Short Story in the Aftermath of WWII Unyielding Complexity of the Middle East: A Perspective of Political Science and Security Studies Velleity, Exigency, and Expediency: British Policy in Southern Kurdistan 1918-1921 What is the Deep State? William Howard Taft, Dollar Diplomacy, and the Question of Iran (1909-1913) Zaydism and Ansar Allah (Huthi Movement): Doctrinal Continuity, or Ideological Transformation? (2014-2025) |