A1- Quests and Conquests: Visual and Performance Arts and the Pursuit of Identity in the Modern Middle East

A. Sameh El Kharbawy, California State University, Fresno: History Animated: Mish-Mish Effendi as a Witness to the Birth of the Modern Middle East

Julie M. Norman, American University, Washington, D.C.: Creative Activism: Youth Media in Palestine

Alon Raab, University of California, Davis: Playing with the Enemy: The Israeli-Palestinian Encounter in Soccer Films

Moderator: A. Sameh El Kharbawy, California State University, Fresno

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A2- Diaspora, Culture and Identity

Neda Maghbouleh, University of California, Santa Barbara: “Inherited Nostalgia” in a Diasporic Cultural Center: Persian-Language Popular Music across Two Generations in Los Angele

Elliott Bazzano, University of California, Santa Barbara: Inside Down and Upside Out: Changing Faces of Identity in Islamic Studies Scholarship

Jonathan Friedlander, University of California, Los Angeles: Celebrating Ethnicity: Finding Common Grounds--Israeli and Iranian Public Festivals in Los Angeles

Mary Husain, California State University, Fresno: The Post 9-11 Assault on Higher Education and Academic Freedom

Moderator: Mary Husain, California State University, Fresno

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B1-Minorities in the Middle East

Carel Bertram, San Francisco State University: Confronting the Parts Torn Apart: Armenian Pilgrimages to Anatolia

Mahmood Monshipouri, San Francisco State University: Minority Rights Protection in the Middle East: Freedoms vs. National Security

Lucia Volk, San Francisco State University: From Minority to Marginality: The Disenfranchised in Lebanon’s Borderlands

Nicole Watts, San Francisco State University: Activists in Office: Kurdish Contention, Political Resources, and Repression in Turkey

Moderator: Mahmood Monshipouri, San Francisco State University

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B2- Palestinian Diaspora

Adnan Musallam, Bethlehem University: Early Palestinian Emigration

Manzar Foroohar, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo: Palestinians in Central America: Economic Success, Social and Cultural Discrimination

Lawrence Davidson, West Chester University, Pennsylvania: Forced Migration of Palestinians and the Transformation of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

Moderator: Manzar Foroohar, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Vincent Bergado, San Jose State University: If You Build it, They Will Reign: Spatialization in the Construction and Defiance of Colonial Oppression

Huma Saleem, San Jose State University: Singing the Songs of Resistance: Bedouin Culture and the Response to American Imperialism

Lakshmikanthan Anandavalli, San Jose State University: Disrupting ARAMCO’s   Narrative: Revisionist History in Cities of Salt

Tanja Nathanael, San Jose State University: The Role of Children’s Literature in Reforging the Palestinian Narrative

David Wirth Llopis, San Jose State University: Narrating a Return to Palestine from the Inside Out: Aziz Shihab's Does the Land Remember Me? Moderator: Persis M. Karim, San Jose State University

C2- Teaching “Middle East”

Lawrence Davidson, West Chester University: Deconstructing U.S. Middle East Foreign Policy in the College Classroom

Suzanne D. Rutland, University of Sydney: A Collaborative Approach to Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi, California State University, Fullerton: Middle East History in Film

Shaun Lopez, The University of Washington, Seattle: Sport and Society in the Middle East: An Alternate Narrative of Middle Eastern History for the American College Classroom

Moderator: Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi, California State University, Fullerton

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Reception:  San Francisco State University - Gottschalk Gallery

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Moderator: Mary Husain, California State University, Fresno

Keynote Speech: Juan Cole, University Of Michigan: “Making Iraq Understandable”

D1- Research in the History & Historiography of the Middle East

Afshin Matin-Asgari, California State University, Los Angeles: The Meanings of “Iran” and “Iranian Identity” in Historical Perspective

Wendy DeSouza, University California, Los Angeles: French Orientalism and Sexual Anxieties: Louis Massignon (1883–1962) and the Lure of Eastern Mysticism

Iago Gocheleishvili, Cornell University: Historiography of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911) and the Caucasian Sources: The Gurjis and Their Memoirs

Mario M. Ruiz, Hofstra University: Reassessing the Local and Global Historiographies of ‘Abd    al-Rahman al-Jabarti

Moderator: Afshin Matin-Asgari, California State University, Los Angeles

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D2 - Research on Comparative Middle Eastern Religions

Yitzhak Reiter, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Revisiting Jihad: Current Islamic Moderate Interpretations of International Relations

Arshad I. Ali, University of California, Los Angeles:  The ‘Other’ at Home: The Construction of the Label ‘Muslim’ as an Emergent Racial Signifier

Nancy W. Jabbra, Loyola Marymount University: Christian Practice in Lebanon's Biqa' Valley: A Longitudinal Study

Moderator:  Vincent Biondo, California State University, Fresno

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Plenary Session

What the Future Has in Store for the Middle East

Haleh Afshar, University of York

Juan Cole, University of Michigan

Eric Hooglund, Bates College

Sasan Fayazmanesh, California State University, Fresno

Moderator: Afshin Matin-Asgari, California State University, Los Angeles

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E1- “De-Mystifying ‘Middle East’ in the Classroom”

Reza Jalali, University of Southern Maine: Changing Roles of Women in Iranian Literature and Film

Eric Hooglund, Bates College: Countering the Demonization of Iran

James Thurlow, International University Audentes, Tallinn, Estonia: Teaching Iran through Film

Chris Coughlin, Jesse Dizard and Judy Bordin, California State University, Chico, Gloysis Mayers, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates: Children’s Perceptions of War and Peace: A Cross Cultural Investigation Facilitating International Undergraduate Collaborative Research

Moderator: Eric Hooglund, Bates College: Countering the Demonization of Iran

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E2- "Studies in Language and Literature"

Samina Najmi, California State University, Fresno: Countering the Military Sublime: Naomi Shihab Nye’s Aesthetic of Smallness

Diana Darab, University of California, Berkeley: The Nature of Narrative in Golshiri’s Shazdeh Ehtejab

Mijeong Lopez Park, California State University, Northridge: Becoming a Muslim Feminist: Two-sided Trespassing in Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood

Vida Samiian, California State University, Fresno: Another Reading of Reading Lolita in Tehran

Moderator: Steve Adisasmito-Smith, California State University, Fresno

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F1-Arab Melodies, Arab Music Videos, Middle Eastern Rhythms, and Middle Eastern Dance: Understanding Aspects of Present-Day Performance Practices

Sue Rudnicki, University of California, Santa Barbara: Regional Specificity in Rhythmic Performance Practices in the Middle East Today

Scott Marcus, University of California, Santa Barbara: The Melodic Modes (Maqamat) and Common-Practice Procedures in Present-Day Eastern-Arab Music Performance

Alexandra King, University of California, Santa Barbara: Regional Specificity in Dance Performance Practices in the Middle East Today

James R. Grippo, University of California, Santa Barbara: Music Videos and the Sha`bi Music Genre in Egypt Today: Standing in Opposition to State-Sanctioned Standards of Egyptian Cultural Policy

Moderator: Scott Marcus, University of California, Santa Barbara

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F2- US, Iran and Iraq

Reza Sanati, Florida International University: The Taxonomy of Threat in American Statecraft: A Case Study of the Revolutionary Guards of Iran

Mohammad Homayounvash, Florida International University: Iran’s Societal Security Plan; Institutionalization of a Novel Security Platform: Risks and Opportunities

Yousef K. Baker, University of California Santa Barbara: Beyond the US Empire: The Political Economy of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq

Fatemeh Masjedi, Tehran, Iran: The Islamic Cultural Politics on Iranian Women in the Aftermath of the Islamic Revolution

Moderator:  Manuchehr Shahrokhi, California State University, Fresno

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