Tenth Annual ASMEA Conference ScheduleTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 19 Welcome Reception FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20 7:30 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. The 1942 Wealth Tax: Economic Turkification under Ethnocultural Nationalism and Turkey’s Non-Muslim Minorities Privatized Commemoration, Political Polarization, and the Cult of Atatürk since the Mid-1990’s When Lawmakers Fight: A Theory of Legislative Violence through the Case of Turkey Glorification of the Past as a Political Tool: The Ottoman Past in Contemporary Turkish Politics 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. On the Question of Governance: Has Africa Seen the Last of the Coup Years? Structures of Governance and Repertoires of Contention: Anti-Corruption and Popular Contention in Africa Whose Rule? Rebuilding Liberia’s Army After Civil War Opposition Political Parties’ Electoral Performance in Tanzania: Examining the Success Stories from 2005 to 2015 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Against the Grain: Some Hope for Today’s Middle Eastern & African Refugees from the Jewish Agrarian Past Path to Electoral Success: Religious Parties, Religious Institutions, and Clientelism in Israel Has Israel Reached the Limits of Growth? The Economic and Ecological Absorptive Capacity of Israel/Palestine Local Governments of Ethnic Minorities in the Middle East: A Case Study of the Crisis Among the Arab-Palestinian Municipalities in Israel 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. The Complexities of Medieval Blasphemy Jurisprudence: Rereading Taqī al-Dīn al-Subkī’s (d.1355) al-Sayf al-maslūl ‘alā man sabba al-rasūl A Book of One’s Own: Wāridāt and its Reception in the age of Ottoman Confessionalization The Illiterate Saint and the Scholar 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Border Crossing: Syrian Feminism and Leadership Does Electing Female Councilors Affect Women’s Representation? Evidence from the Tunisian Local Governance Performance Index (LGPI) “Point Men”: How Religious Women Soldiers May Restore Israel’s “Citizens’ Army” The Women of Cohar: Convicted Muslim Terrorists in an Israeli Prison 8:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Struggles for Power, Identity and Language in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Case of the AmaHlubi Injustice for All?: Negotiated Victory in Civil War and the Rhodesian Bush War Humanitarian Aid and Counter Insurgency: The Case of the Simba Revolts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1964-1967 A Preliminary Exploration into the Politics of Dark Tourism in Rwanda 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. The Portrayal of Jews and Israel in Turkish School Textbooks Russia Between Jerusalem and Tehran: The Future of Moscow’s Strategy of Balancing between Iran and Israel Security Herzl in Beirut; Lebanon and Israel in the Intellectual Production of Twentieth-Century Lebanese Christians 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Between the Sword of Santiago and The Scimitar of Muhammad: Spanish Diplomats in the Ottoman Empire, 1779-1923 Iranian Exiles in Istanbul and Ottoman–Qājar Relations The Black Sheep of the Family?: The ‘Unorthodox’ Greeks of Istanbul in the Late Ottoman Empire A Reluctant Minority: The Genoese Response to the Ottoman Conquest of Constantinople 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Private Developers and Public Policy: Private-Public Partnerships in the Delivery of Morocco’s New Towns Women Empowerment and Global Value Chain Upgrading in Africa: A Case Study of the Moroccan Argan Oil Industry Gender and Development in Rural Morocco 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Stateless Capacity Building in Critical Emergency Contexts: A Comparative Analysis of Human Security, Health and Development in the Kurdish Regions of Iraq, Syria and Turkey Understanding Minority Group Mobilization During Civil War: The Assyrian Democratic Movement in Iraq and the Nineveh Plains Protection Units The Middle Eastern War Nobody Still Knows: Revisiting Washington’s Support of the Second Iraqi-Kurdish War, 1974-1975 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Rashid Ghannouchi’s Test: Political Islam and Democracy in Tunisia Before and After Bin Ali: Comparing Two Attempts at Political Liberalization in Tunisia Resisting and Redefining State Violence: The Gendered Politics of the Truth and Dignity Commission in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia Back to the Future? Nidaa Tounes and Tunisian Post-Revolutionary Politics 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Making the Shia-Iranian Self: The Islamic Republic and Cultural Engineering Why is Studying Iranian Elections Politically Important? Facts Understood from the Electoral Behavior of the Constituencies Loyal to the Two Major Political Factions in Iran Understanding Iran’s Quest for Nuclear Technology: The Importance of Ideology 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Tahlal: Emotional Bedouin Chanting in Morocco Revisiting Ottoman Feminism as Cosmopolitan Thought: World-making in Women’s World Magazine (1913-1921) Between Exile and Homeland: The Complex Hybrid Identity of a Kurdish Poet Representation of Masculinity in Iranian Cinema: Qaisar and Salesman in Dialogue 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. U.S. Security Cooperation in Africa: Confronting Expectations and Realities Accountability: The Interagency and Building Partner Capacity in Africa Absorptive Capacity: Understanding the Competencies Needed for Achieving Sustainable Solutions 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. The Role of the Internet in the Promulgation of Judaism and Jewish Identity in Central Africa Disentangling the New Fulcrum of Sub-Saharan Judaism Through Concentric Circles of Identity The Influence of Sephardi Emigres on Religious Developments in West Africa 1500-1900 It Is Good To Be Jewish: An Exploration Of Social Identity In The Lives Of The Igbo Jews Of Nigeria 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. The Soviet Military Doctrine influence on the Egyptian Army while preparing for the 1973 Yom Kippur War The Six-Year War: How Israel’s 1967 Victory Became a Clash with the USSR The June 1967 Six-Day War and its Rebound Result – The 1973 War 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Iran and Saudi Arabia: The Honing of Swords in the Clash of Theocratic Civilizations Fading Anti-systemicness: Tawhidi Islamists in Turkey Secularism: Conventional or Contextual? Theory and Practice of Religious Politics in Iran and Turkey The Making of Jihadi Subculture in Turkey: Enculturation in Salafi Publications in Turkish 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. A Synopsis of Sassanian Military Organization and Combat Units Nation and Empire Building the Iranian Way: The Case of the Sasanian Empire in the Third Century Procopius, Soldiers, and Strategy on the Southeastern Frontier in the Age of Justinian 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Jim Crow Kenya: Sir Charles Eliot and the ‘Negro Question’ from the American South to British East Africa, 1899-1904 Managing the Child Soldier Challenge in Contemporary Conflicts Wireless Empire: Movement, Surveillance, and Control in the Herero and Nama Wars 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Their Story Is Our Story: Mormonism, Giving, and the Syrian Refugee Crisis “From the Catecombs of Egypt”: Latter-day Saint Engagement with Ancient Egypt and the Evolution of Religious Identity White Shirt Empire: Rebecca Mould, Anthony Obinna, and the Expansion of Mormonism in Ghana and Nigeria, 1964-1979 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Amazigh (Berber) Feminism: The Difficulties and Paradoxes of Being an Amazigh and a Feminist in Algeria Today Rethinking the Role of Ontology in Mutʿa, Temporary Marriage What Difference Can It Make? Assessing the Impact of Gender Equality and Empowerment in matters of Inheritance in Egypt Paying My Own Bridewealth: Negotiations for Formal Marriage in Kibera, Kenya 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Israeli Perceptions of the Relations with the International Committee of the Red Cross Between the 1967 War Ceasefire and the Outbreak of the 1973 War: From Coexistence to Open Hostility Israeli POWs & MIAs: A Never Ending Saga Eliminating the Consequences of Aggression: Egypt’s Strategy after the 1967 War On-Again, Off-Again: The Johnson Administration’s Approach to Nasser After the (June 1967) Six-Day War SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 7:30 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Birds of A Feather? Leadership Patterns and the Lethality of Main Terrorist Organizations in the Middle East and North Africa Who Is the True Radical? Pandering to/Placating Radicals as Common Political Strategies in the Middle East The Failure of the Syrian Opposition 2011-2017: What Went Wrong? The Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamic Revolution: How Twentieth Century Sunni Reformers Accidentally Broke the Middle East 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Turkey and the Gulf Countries: The New Economic Strategy Can Trump’s Newly Introduced Unpredictability in American Deterrence be a Chance of Initiating a New Round of Arms Control in the Middle East? What Trump Era Means for the Traditional US Allies in the Middle East: Thinking About Turkey and Israel 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Battling Extremism with the Qur’ān – New Pluralist Qur’ān Hermeneutics in Lebanon Dual Identity in Lebanon: Consequences for Sectarian Protest Participation Lebanonism and the Lebanese Identity: Lebanese Intellectuals and Their Struggle to Shape the Lebanese Identity Following the Syrian Withdrawal from Lebanon 2005-2015 A Man for Others; The Lives and Times of Lebanese Jesuit Henri Lammens 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Currency Manipulation as a Weapon in Armed Conflict: Eisenhower’s Targeting of the British Currency During the Suez Crisis of 1956 The Origins of French Counterinsurgency: The Conquest of Algeria 1830-1847 The 1975 Congressional Feasibility Study on “Oil Fields as Military Objectives”: U.S.-Saudi Arabian Relations and the Repercussions of the 1973 Oil Crisis 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Assessing Democracy in sub-Saharan Africa: The Challenges of Collective Action The Historical Contextualization and Ethnic Identity of Bakongo People: Case of ABAKO, BDK, BDM A Complexity Science Approach to Cameroon’s Security Paradox: Secure or Insecure and Why? From Nationalist Rebellion to Pan-African Liberation: A Theory of the Apartheid Endgame in South Africa 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. The Muslim Middle East and Northeast Africa: The Interaction of Geopolitics, Economic Interests and Regional Rivalry An Empirical Assessment of U.S. Security Assistance Programs on Political Stability in MENA One Continent, Multiple Paths: Explaining Divergence in Political Development across North and Sub-Saharan Africa since the Arab Spring Assessing Russia’s Middle East Policy after the Arab Spring: Prospects and Limitations 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. The Salafist Threat in the Maghreb The Salafist Threat to Kenya The Terrorist Threat to Tunisia The Salafist Threat to Jordan and Saudi Arabia 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. The Best Terrorist for the Job: Selection Motivations in State Sponsorship of Terrorism From Fedayeen to Jihadists: Islamization of the Palestinian Armed Struggle in Lebanon The Case for Arab-Israeli Normalization During Conflict The Way Israel is Displayed in Intra-Palestinian Discourse after Oslo: A Partner for Peace or War? 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Anti-Zionism, Jus Cogens, and International Law: The Case of the Banjul Charter and Arab Charter Ethnic Minorities in Democratizing Muslim Countries: Turkey and Indonesia Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in Jordan The Application of Sharia in the Greek Region of Thrace: Protecting the Religious Freedom of the Muslim Minority or Violating Human Rights? 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Kenya’s Water Governance: Comparing the 2002 and 2016 Water Acts and Legislative Impact On-the-Ground in Siaya County Regime Policing and the Stifling of the Human Rights Agenda: Late Colonial and Post-Colonial Malawi, 1948-Present “Partisan Politics is Making People Angry”: The Rise and Fall of Political Salafism in Kenya Ethiopia’s “Grand Renaissance Dam” a Symbol of Cooperation or a Source of Conflict 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. “For the battle is not yours but for the Lord”: Dilemmas within the Medieval Coptic Community in an “Age” of Mass Conversion to Islam Through Coptic Eyes: Christian-Muslim Relations in Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary Egypt Muslim Attitudes Toward the Coptic Issue as a Reflection of the Struggle over Egypt’s Identity The Copts and the Muslims During and After the Revolution of 25th January 2011 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Why Do Authoritarian Leaders Adopt Gender Quota Laws? Electoral Manipulation as a Survival Strategy Voting Islamist or Voting Secular? An Empirical Analysis of Election Outcomes in Tunisia’s Democratic Transition 2011-2014 12:15 p.m. 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Traditional Salafism in Morocco: Fundamental Contentions and Paradoxical Mutations Here and Now vs. Here and Then: The Islamist Conception of Time and History Leadership Crisis in Islam: Towards New Model to Counter-terrorism Whither Salafism in Morocco? 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. The Iran-Iraq War: Lessons Unlearned Turnout in Transitional Elections: Who Votes in Iraq? Frenemies for Life: Insurgent Alliance Formation in Baghdad, 2004-2008 The Growth of Anti-Semitism in Iraq 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. The Stumbling Democracy – Case Studying Kuwait Public Policy and the Future in Qaboos’ Oman: Lessons from Spain The Belt and Road Initiatives and China-GCC Relations R2P in the Gulf: Saudi Manipulation of the Humanitarian Intervention Norm Since 2011 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Fighting Jihadism: Explaining African States’ Motivation in Requesting Foreign Combat Assistance The Future of Militant Islam in the Western Sahel Foreign Aid towards Africa through: Faith-based Organizations: The Case of Turkey 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. The U.S. and NATO in Afghanistan After 2001: “The Wrong Enemy” Stability and Reconstruction in Afghanistan Deliberating the Afghanistan Problem, 1978-79: Geopolitical Context and Brzezinski’s Guiding Hand The First Steps of “Nation Building” in Afghanistan: The Bonn Conference and Emergency Loya Jirga 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Minority Rule in the Middle East: A Comparative Analysis of Iraq, Syria, and Bahrain ISIS, Blood Antiquities, and the International Fight against Terrorism Financing 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Survival is Not Enough: The Feminist Imperative for Respectful Maternity Care in Morocco Developing a Patient-centered Care Model in Morocco for Individuals with Neurological Issues: Findings from a Needs Assessment Global Cultural and Public Health Challenges: The Impact of Conflict on Healthcare in the Rhino Camp Refugee Settlements in Uganda 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. New Media and Islamic Reformism: Is it Really a Reform? Reforming Islam Today: Between the Constraint of Censorship and the Pressure of Political Correctness New Media and Religious Authority 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. The Origin and Characteristics of the Prophet Mohammad’s Birthday Celebration in Erbil during the Attabeg Period The Rejection and Embrace of Saddam’s Bride of Mendili Monument Tehran’s Holy Defense Museum: “War Time” as Exhibitionary Complex and Power Machinery A Moral City: Mirage or Reality? 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Nigeria (1960-2017): Democracy, Leadership and Future Challenges Redeeming the Ideology of Slavery in Northern Nigeria: Boko Haram and the Quest for the ‘Servile Estates The Unacknowledged African Nationalist Leader: I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson of Sierra Leone The African Political Leadership: The Persistent Challenges |