Conference ScheduleSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24:00 P.M. – 5:30 P.M. 5:30 P.M. – 6:30 P.M. 6:30 P.M. – 8:00 P.M. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 37:30 A.M. – 8:15 A.M. 8:30 A.M. – 10:00 A.M. Panel 1: Saudi Arabia: Then and Now Toward “Moderation” in Islam: Reassessing the Sahwa and Wahhabism in MBS’s Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia: Becoming a Nation? Saudi Arabia’s “Homegrown” Slavery and the Saudi Novel Panel 2: African Transformations "I Knew What Life and Death Were Like": The Challenges Faced by Soviet Military Translators in Angola, 1975-1992 Personal Accounts of Non-Machiavellian Exits in Africa Who are Putin's Supporters in Africa? The Nexus of Inequality and Structural Transformation in Africa Panel 3: Iraqi Studies In Memory of the Ba'th's Prophet: Commemorating Michel 'Aflaq in Baghdad Disbandment and Recreation of the Iraqi Army From Enchantment to Disillusionment: Iraqi Revolutions Through the Literary Lens of Exiled Writers Panel 4: Antisemitism: Society, Culture and Politics Antisemitism as a Civilizational Phenomenon: An Analytical Essay Alexandria: The City that Changed the World Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles Antisemitism is About Semites Like Dolichocephaly is About Language 10:30 A.M - 12:00 P.M. Book Discussion 1: Israel/Palestine in World Religions: Whose Promised Land? Panel 5: Afghanistan: Women, Jihad, and Politics Jihad Education and the Rise of Global Jihad in Afghanistan, 1980-2024 Analyzing Afghan Women-Led Social Movements’ Resistance Against Taliban Control: Women and Collective Action in Post-2021 Afghanistan Transitional Justice and Human Rights in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan Roundtable Discussion 1: The October 7 Attack: Four Different Points of View Panel 6: Radicalism and Religion in Africa Actors and Processes of Radicalization in the Lake Chad Basin "Wilderness on the Streets": Girl Child at the Crossroads of Boko Haram's View of Wilderness in the Context of Religion and National Identity The Utilization of Youth Bulges in Great Power Conflict in the Middle East and Africa Roundtable Discussion 2: Iran and the World: New Perspectives 12:30 P.M. – 2:00 P.M. 2:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Roundtable Discussion 3: October 7th and its Aftermath: Implications for the Region Panel 7: Women in Africa Literature of Protest and Revolt Against Patriarchy in Balaraba Ramat’s Alhaki Kwikwiyo (Sin is a Puppy That Follows You Home), and Rahama A. Majid’s Mace Mutum (A Woman is Human) Iconography of the Migrant Woman’s Hoarding Memories in Fadela’s Hebbadj’s Arbre d’Ebene No Fault: Women Recall Section 4 Of the Colonial Divorce Act 1904; Consequences Of “Victory” My Pleasure Matters Too": Understanding Sexual Scripting Among Ghanaian Women Panel 8: China in the Middle East Allies in Need? Defining the Nature of Iran–China Relations Strategic Chessboard in the MENA: Analyzing Sino-Saudi and Sino-Egyptian Relations in the Context of the Belt and Road Initiative Strategic Alignment and Power Transition: Iran’s Motives in Proxy Warfare and China’s Geopolitical Test in the Middle East Panel 9: Turkish Studies Cinematic Militarization and Turkey's Hard Power Projection Elections, Patronage, And Coercion in Populist Governance Case Study: Turkiye “Neither be Oppressed nor be Oppressors”: CHP’s Leftward Turn with the Idea of Left of Center/Democratic Left in the 1960s and the 1970s Panel 10: Antisemitism's Theological and Religious Roots The Catholic Church, Jews, the Shoah and the State of Israel: Interpretations and Responses Igbophobia, Anti-Semitism, and Islamism as Roots of the Igbo Genocide in Nigeria and Biafra Israel and the Question of Racism and Related Intolerance: The Road to the World Conference at Durban 4:00 pm 4:30 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. Panel 11: Vignettes on Modern Shi’a Communities in the Arab World The Syrian Civil War and the Shia Villages of al-Fua and Kafariya Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and the Struggle for Martyr's Day in post-2003 Iraq Religious and National Identity for Saudi Shia: Democracy and Secessionism "Karbala of the Gulf": The Revolutionary Thought of Hadi al-Mudarrisi and the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain, 1980–1988 Roundtable Discussion 4: Collaborating for Policy Impact in the Middle East Panel 12: African Ecologies Cocoa Insect Pests and Diseases in Colonial Ghana (Gold Coast), 1900 – 1957: A Historical Exploration From Diverting Rivers to Flooding Deserts: French Colonial Hydrology Schemes in North Africa, 1830-1960 Mass Tree Planting and Search for Fuelwood Alternatives: How the 1970s Fears of Fuelwood Shortage Shaped Forestry in The Gambia Panel 13: Egyptian Minorities The Coptic Diaspora in the Digital Age: Exploring the Crossroads of Freedom and Surveillance Before and After Exile: The Trailblazing Lives of Five Jewish Egyptian Women Media Representation of Egyptian Members of Parliament: Realities of Gender Disparity Panel 14: Israeli Security before and after October 7th Hamas and the First Israel-Iran War Can Israel Still Rely on Its Intelligence after the October 7th Hamas Attack? Patterns of Violence among Arabs in Lod During May 2021: Examining Civil, National and Religious Factors Israel and the Arab world - After the October 7th 5:00 P.M. – 6:00 P.M. 6:30 P.M. – 8:00 P.M. 8:00 P.M. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 47:30 A.M. – 8:15 A.M. 8:30 A.M. – 10:00 A.M. Roundtable 5: Niger Update: From Coup to Putin to ? Panel 15: Israeli and Palestinian Societies On the Process of Easternization of Israeli Society and Politics (with a note on October 7th) Hamas and Palestinian Political Culture Mass Media as a Weapon for Disseminating Terrorist Ideology: The Case Study of Hamas The War in Gaza and the Revival of the Two State Solution Panel 16: Religion, Poetry, and Society A Journey to the Roots of Judicial Etiquette: Exploring Geniza Fragments and Legal Traditions in the Ancient Near East and North Africa The West African Muslim Community from the Late Ottoman Period to Mandatory Jerusalem - The Role of Sufism Symbolism and Allegory in Nasir Khusraw's Safarnameh: A Comparative Analysis with his Confession-Ode Panel 17: Who Speaks for Women? Why Women Vote: Wasta and Political Participation under Authoritarianism The Narrative of the Oppressor and the Oppressed: Recasting Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero from Gender Perspective #MahsaAmini and #ZanZendegiAzadi Forming a New Discourse of Feminism and Women's Rights Panel 18: Iran and its Adversaries The Involvement of The Islamic Republic of Iran in the Bahrain at the Arab Spring events Proxy Wars and Strategic Alignments: The Influence of U.S. Military Support to Israel on its Relationship with Iran in the Middle East American Decline: The Role of Perception and Force Projection in the Iran Hostage Crisis 10:00 A.M.
Coffee Break 10:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Roundtable Discussion 6: Israel’s Second War of Independence: Reclaiming the Language of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Panel 19: Sub-Saharan Africa: Politics and Conflict The State of Malawi’s Second Wave of Democracy: An Institutional Analysis Cabo Delgado Conflict – More than Global Jihad, an Ethnic and Secessionist Insurgency? Eastern Part of Democratic Republic of Congo and Great Lakes Region: Focusing on the Historical Contextualization of the Banyamulenge Ethnic Identity Politics, Power, and the Collapse of the Juba Peace Process: A Case Study of Uganda Government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Panel 20: Turkish Identities and Relationships
Water Thicker than Gas: Turkey, UNCLOS, and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Gas Decade, 2010-2020 Pro-Kurdish Masjids in Istanbul: Exploring Minority Religious Spaces as a Form of Political Resistance Turkey’s Fluctuating Relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood: Religious Ideology and its Limits Navigating Change in Alevi-Bektashi Tradition: Gender, Identity, and Veneration in Eastern Thrace Panel 21: Early 20th Century War Tactics Hybrid Warfare in the Desert: British Strategies and Tactics Employed Against the Ottoman Empire During the Great War (1914-1918) Hidden in Plain Sight: The Beginnings of French Chemical Warfare in Morocco’s Rif War (April-July 1925) Managing the Persian Question after the WWI – The Geopolitical Strategy and Reasoning of British India Panel 22: Gulf Politics and Culture Media and the Discursive Crafting of Smart Futures in the Middle East: Insights from NEOM The Role of Ibadi Islam in the Foreign Policy of the Sultanate of Oman (1970-2024) Jewish and Muslim Emigration from Yemen: A correlation between Two Demographic Movements 12:15 P.M. 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Roundtable Discussion 7: David Landes: Historical Analyst and the Current State of the Profession Panel 23: Vortex of Pressures: Foreign Powers and the Lebanese Civil War Rashid Karami and the Palestinians: Lebanon’s Foreign Policy from 1958 until 1976 Shattered Dreams: Israel's Intervention in Lebanon, 1976-1982 Lebanon Between East and West on the Eve of the Civil War Laying the Groundwork-How Syria Thwarted American Policy in Lebanon-1982-1983 Panel 24: Aspects of Zion and Zionism before the State of Israel Women, the Jewish Palestine Pavilion, and the New York World’s Fair of 1939-1940 Competing Narratives and British Conflict Management in Mandate Palestine: How Competing Narratives Influenced the 1939 St James Peace Conference Shibli Shumayyil, Social Darwinism and Zionism Panel 25: Transnational Politics and Cultures Arabs, Turks, and Iranians: Prospects for Cooperation and Prevention of Conflict A Comparative Analysis of US Newspaper Coverage of the Sharpeville Massacre 1960 From Istanbul to Morris, Minnesota: A Comparative History of Boarding Schools The Effect of Time and Safety on the Retention of Peace Education Concepts Panel 26: Religion and African Empires Sacred Soil: Exploring the Complex Intersection of Human Bodies, Land, and Identity in Middle Belt Nigeria Cosmologies Khedive Ismaʿil’s Imperialist Project in the Horn of Africa and Patronage for Christian Missionaries: The Case of Lazarist Catholics in the 1870s Missionary Women in the Linguistic Field. Research on the Gaboon and Corisco Presbyterian Missions in the Nineteenth Century “A City with Walls”: A Religious-Created Space and the Making of Onitsha City, 1857 - 1922 2:30 P.M. - 4:00 P.M. Panel 27: Genocide: Imagined and Real The Genocide Libel The Effects of Genocide on the Women of Biafra Islamic Antisemitism: A Critical Examination of Theological Foundations and Historical Manifestations Panel 28: Outside Totalitarian Powers in the Middle East Pyongyang’s Military Proliferation to Iran: Russia and China are Now Key Enablers Russia on the Roll: New Geopolitics in the Middle East and Asia Pacific China and the Middle East: How the History of Chinese Communist Party Thought on Diplomacy Shapes Modern China-Middle East Relations Book Discussion 2: Islam, Constitutional Law and Human Rights: Sexual Minorities And Freethinkers In Egypt And Tunisia Panel 29: West African Politics and Culture Freedom from Independence: A Fanonian Appraisal of Postcolonial Discontent and the Recent West African Coups A French Jew in Côte d'Ivoire: The Life and Involvement of Robert Léon in Local Politics and in the Formation of the Ivorian Elite Between the 1940s and the 1960s Democratic Backsliding, Borderlands Governance and Regional Security in West Africa and the Maghreb Political and Geopolitical Determinants of Guinea-Bissau Power Struggles Panel 30: Contentious Issues Dominating in the Post-7 October Middle East: Alliances, Penetration and Identity Question of Alliances in the Middle East: Is There Still a Chance for an Order Based on Regional Balancing Alliances? Construction and Re-construction of Cultural Codes Through Political Violence: The Case of Kurdish Nationalism * The schedule is subject to change. |