CMES community members at MESA, November 18-21, 2010

November 01, 2010

Over 20 members of the CMES community, including faculty, students, visiting researchers, and alumni/ae, participated in the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, held November 18–21, 2010 in San Diego, CA.

CMES names are below in bold for easy reference (a key of affiliations is provided beneath the schedule). A PDF version is also available. For further information about the panels or the annual meeting, visit the MESA website.

We strive to include all CMES affiliates in this list. However, the large volume of conference participants and panels presents a challenge in indentifying all who participate. We sincerely regret if we have overlooked any of our affiliates in the process, and would be happy to update the list if you contact us.

MESA Annual Meeting 2010

November 18–21
Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego CA

Session I

Thursday, November 18
5:00pm

[C2588] Plague and Contagion in the Islamic Mediterranean

Organized by Nukhet Varlik, James Madison University

Yaron Ayalon, University of Oklahoma
Andrew Robarts, Georgetown University
Aaron Shakow, Harvard University
Justin Stearns, New York University—Abu Dhabi
Nukhet Varlik, James Madison University

[P2382] Themes in the Cultural and Intellectual History of the Ottoman Arab Provinces

Organized by Charles L. Wilkins, Wake Forest University

Discussant: Jane Hathaway, Ohio State University

Dina Le Gall, City University of New York—“Naqshbandi and Shattari Shaykhs and the 17th-Century Haramayn as a Religious and Intellectual Hub”
Dana Sajdi, Boston College—“Proverbial Laughter and the Chronicle of the Commoner in 18th-Century Levant”
Stephen E. Tamari, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville—“The Concept of Injustice among Intellectuals of Pre-Tanzimat Ottoman Syria”
Charles L. Wilkins, Wake Forest University—“The Intellectual Horizons of the Tahazade Family of Aleppo, 17th-18th Centuries”

[P2531] Strangers in a Strange Land

Paul E. Chevedden, University of California, Los Angeles—“Jihad against the Muslims": A Contemporary Islamic View of the Crusades”
Maia Carter Hallward, Kennesaw State University—“100 Years of Quakers in Palestine”
Eren Tasar, Harvard University—“The Central Asian Muftiate on the International Stage, 1944-1988”
Alexander Thurston, Northwestern University—“A Tale of Three Pilgrims: Nigerians and the Hajj, 1955 to 1996”

[P2355] Structures, Relations and Subjectivites: Youth in the Middle East

Organized by Ayca Alemdaroglu, Stanford University and Manata Hashemi, University of California, Berkeley

Chair and Discussant: Heidi Morrison, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse

Ayca Alemdaroglu, Stanford University—“The Quest for 'Respect:' Social Inequality and Young Adults in Turkey”
Zeynep Baser, Sabancı University—“Imagining Citizenship, Identity and Peace: The Kurdish Youth in Diyarbakir”
Manata Hashemi, University of California, Berkeley—“Moving on Up: Social Mobility among the Young and the Poor in Iran”
Omar Shalaby, University of Ottawa—“Institutionalized Practices versus a Resurgence of the Democratic Idea: a Challenging Dilemma Faced by the Egyptian Youth”

Session II

Friday, November 19
8:30am

[P2329] The American Academic Institution and Its Involvement in Arab Education: Missions, Powers, and Conflicts

Organized by Muhamed Al Khalil, New York University Abu Dhabi

Discussant: Adel Sulaiman Gamal, University of Arizona

Muhamed Al Khalil, New York University Abu Dhabi—“The Portrayal of the American Academe in Recent Arabic Literature”
Ahmed Dardir, “Activism and Discipline: Negotiating American Universities in the Arab World”
Ali Farghaly, Monterey Institute of International Studies—“The Mission of Foreign Institutes of Higher Education in the Arab World”
Ali Musa, Fulbright Fellow – Jordan—“Jordan and the Role of American Universities in the Arab World”
Mandy Terc, University of Michigan—“American Educational Institutions and Socio-Economic Class in Syria”

[P2380] Expanding the Frontiers of the Islamic World

Organized by Robert Haug, University of Michigan

Chair: Robert Haug, University of Michigan

Discussant: Deborah G. Tor, University of Notre Dame

Michael Bonner, University of Michigan—“The Tulunids and the Frontiers in Egyptian Historiography”
Asa Eger, University of North Carolina-Greensboro—“Building the Frontier: New Systems of Settlement, Sedentarization, and Exchange in the 'Abbasid Thughur”
Robert Haug, University of Michigan—“Overlapping Frontiers: Defining the Limits of Mawara' al-Nahr and the Presence of Non-Muslim Authorities”
Alison Marie Vacca, University of Michigan—“A Glory to Islam": Armenia and the Frontiers of the Islam”

[P2390] Transformation of Ottoman Medical Discourse: Disease, Knowledge, and Society

Organized by John Curry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Nukhet Varlik, James Madison University

Chair: Sean Foley, Middle Tennessee State University

John Curry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas—“Seeking the remedies: Katip Celebi's presentation of useful medical remedies from the Far East and the Americas”
Andrew Robarts, Georgetown University—“Epidemic Disease, Quarantines, and Migration Management in the Ottoman Empire, 1774-1830s”
Aaron Shakow, Harvard University—“Plague and Corruption in the Early Modern Mediterranean: A Literary Epidemiology”
Nukhet Varlik, James Madison University—“Medical knowledge, lawmaking, and the state: discussions of contagion in Ottoman plague treatises”
Yucel Yanikdag, University of Richmond—“’Are Turks Degenerate?' Socio-Medical Fears of National Degeneration in the Early 20th Century”

Session III

Friday, November 19
11:00am

[P2353] Family and Law: Legal Realities and Discourses

Organized by Etty Terem, Rhodes College, and Kent F. Schull, University of Memphis

Chair: Fariba Zarinebaf, University of California, Riverside

Discussant: Najwa Al-Qattan, Loyola Marymount University

Kenneth M. Cuno, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—“Women with Missing (mafqud) Husbands: Marriage in Nineteenth Century Egypt”
Kent F. Schull, University of Memphis—“Coping with Incarceration: Family, Gender, and Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire”
Etty Terem, Rhodes College—“Mufti, Fatwas, and Family: Legal Interpretation and Modernity in pre-Protectorate Morocco”
Richard Wittmann, Orient-Institut Istanbul—“Taking One's Trouble before an Outside Judge. Dhimmi Families and Islamic Law in 17th Century Istanbul”

[P2418] In Transition: Cross Roads, Frontiers, and Historical Memory in Late Antique Iranian Studies

Organized by Ghazzal Dabiri, Columbia University

Discussant: Parvaneh Pourshariati, Ohio State University

Awad Awad, “The Intellectual History of Persian Nestorian Physicians in the Early Abbasid Period”
Asef Kholdani, “A Critical Survey of the Fihrist of al-Nadim”
Sarah Bowen Savant, Aga Khan University—“Forgetting Ctesiphon: Iran's Pre-Islamic Past, ca. 800-1100 CE”
Deborah G. Tor, University of Notre Dame—“Zobul and KKbul": A Late Antique Relict in Early Islamic Times

[P2324] Manuscript Pages from the Islamic World in The San Diego Museum of Art

Organized by Niloofar Fotouhi, ILEX Foundation

Chair: Richard W. Bulliet, Columbia University

Discussant: Sonya Quintanilla, The San Diego Museum of Art

Olga M. Davidson, Wellesley College—“Animals as Courtiers and Comforters in Persian Manuscripts”
Chad Kia, Brown University—“Alexander Assimilated: Tracing the Sufi Iconography of an Indian Painting”
Alka Patel, University of California, Irvine—“Did the Emperor Akbar Approve of Albums?”
Laura Weinstein, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—“The Shahnama in the Deccan: A 17^th Century Manuscript from the Sultanate of Bijapur”

Session IV

Friday, November 19

[P2399] Articulating Politics, Mobilizing Art: The Left and the Visual Arts

Organized by Dina A. Ramadan, Columbia University and Sarah Rogers

Chair and Discussant: Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, Northeastern University

Omnia ElShakry, University of California, Davis—“The Specter of the Political and the Promise of Politics: Contemporary Artistic Production and the Middle East”
Pamela Karimi, UMass Dartmouth—“The Visual Culture of the Left in Cold War Iran”
Donald LaCoss, University of Wisconsin- LaCrosse—“The Arab Surrealist Movement in Exile, 1973-1980”
Dina A. Ramadan, Columbia University—“Writing for Art and Freedom: Reading Aesthetics and Ideology in al-Tatawwur”
Sarah Rogers, “Palestinian Art & Leftist Politics in Beirut”

[R2483] Rethinking Ottomanism: Citizenship, Nationhood, and Late Imperial Modernity

Organized by Michelle U. Campos, University of Florida

Chair and Discussant: James L. Gelvin, UCLA

Michelle U. Campos, University of Florida
Julia Cohen, Vanderbilt University
Kent F. Schull, University of Memphis

[P2548] Makhzan Culture and Berber Counter-Culture

Chair: Moshe Gershovich, U of Nebraska at Omaha

Michael J. Willis, U of Oxford—“Enemies, Allies or Competitors? Islamist-Berberist Relations in Contemporary Morocco”
Senem Aslan, Bates Col—“Negotiating National Identity: Amazigh Activism and the Moroccan State”
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, Tel Aviv U—“Breaking a Taboo: The Moroccan Amazigh Movement, the Holocaust and Israel”
Angela Suarez Collado, Autonomous U of Madrid—“Between Cooptation and Contestation: Amazigh Movement in Ten Years of Mohamed VI’s Reign”

[P2557] Religion, Conversion, and Revolution in Iran
Chair: Ali Gheissari, University of San Diego

Lutz Richter-Bernburg, Tübingen University—“Naser-e Khosrow's conversion to Ismailism revisited”
Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, Cornell University—“Rethinking the Kizilbash Movement and the Rise of the Safavids in Light of New Evidence”
Mehrdad Amanat—“Memory, Identity and Religious Conversion”
Iago Gocheleishvili, Cornell University—“Revisiting the History of the Iranian Constitutional Movement (1905-1911): A New Look at the Role of the Gilani mujahidin and the Qafqaziyan in the Constitutional Revolution”

Session V

Friday, November 19
4:30pm

[P2416] Strangers in a Strange Land: Foreign Muslim Scholars in the Middle East

Organized by Kristian Petersen, University of Washington

Chair: Juliane Hammer, George Mason University

Discussant: Nile Green, UCLA

Daniel Majchrowicz, Harvard University—“Returning to the source: Indian educational reformers and travel to the Middle East”
Kristian Petersen, University of Washington—“The Truth of the Attainments from the Hajj Pilgrimage-An Illustration of Ma Dexin's Middle Eastern Journey”
Homayra Ziad, Trinity College—“Abd al-Majid Daryabadi's Safar-e-Hejaz”

[P2445] Humanism or Hegemony? Development and Empire in a Comparative Perspective

Organized by Muriam Haleh Davis, New York University

Chair: Tom Hill, Columbia University

Discussant: Susan Gilson Miller, University of California, Davis

Ziad M. Abu-Rish, UCLA—“Beyond the Imperial Mantle: U.S. Foreign Policy, the Middle East, and Developmentalism”

Muriam Haleh Davis, New York University—“Rights and Responsibilities: Views of Economic Development in French Algeria, 1923 – 1958”
Jennifer Johnson, Princeton University—“Peaceful Pacifiers: The Sections Administratives Specialisees in Algeria, 1955-1962”
Pascal Menoret,Princeton University—“Urban Planning and Street Terrorism in Riyadh”
Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University—“The Modernizing Mission: the French use of Unesco Policies and Cultural Anthropology in Algeria, 1955-61”

Session VI

Saturday, November 20
8:30am

[P2330] Middle Eastern-European Intellectual Encounters: Cultural Differences and the Fusion of Horizons

Organized by Dietrich Jung, University of Southern Denmark

Chair: Necati Polat, Middle East Technical University

Discussant: John O. Voll, Georgetown University

Dietrich Jung, University of Southern Denmark—“Orientalists and Islamic Reformers: On the Origin of the Essentialist Image of Islam”
Goetz Nordbruch, SDU Odense—“Neither East Nor West: The Localization of Thought in Intellectual Debates of the Interwar Years in Egypt”
Umar Ryad, Leiden Institute of Religious Studies—“A New Light on Islamic Reformism in Inter-War Holland”
Mark Sedgwick, Aarhus University, Denmark—“Orientalists and Sufis: The European Reception of Sufism and Its Consequences”

[P2459] Transnationalism and Religious Authority: Exploring the Salafi Movement

Organized by Martijn Koning, De, Radboud University Nijmegen

Discussant: Jocelyne Cesari, Harvard University

Carmen Becker, Radboud University Nijmegen—“Authority as Authenticity: Reconstructing Salafi Authority in Dutch and German Chat Rooms and Online Forums”
Martijn Koning, De, Radboud University Nijmegen—“Networks of Authorization - Transnational connections of authority in Salafi networks”
Zoltan Pall, University of Utrecht—“Transformation of Religious Authority in Kuwait”
Joas Wagemakers, Radboud University Nijmegen—“The Transnational vs. the Local: Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi's Transnational Religious Authority and the Locally-Inspired Midad al-Suyuf Forum”

[P2425] Where Men are Made

Organized by Sami Hermez, Roozbeh Shirazi, and Zeena Zakharia

Sami Hermez, Princeton University—“Children in Militias: Students of Wartime Lebanon (1975-1990)”
Roozbeh Shirazi, “'These Boys Are Wild': Mapping the Terrains of Masculinity in Jordanian Secondary Schools”
Zeena Zakharia, Harvard Kennedy School of Government—“En/gendering Political Participation in Schools: Heroic Resistance and Schooling in Beirut's Southern Suburb”

Session VII

Saturday, November 20
11:00am

[P2437] Modern Middle Eastern Networks in Global Perspective

Organized by Julia Cohen, Vanderbilt University

Chair and Discussant: Sarah Abrevaya Stein, UCLA

Cemil Aydin, George Mason University–“Global Networks of Late Ottoman Era Intellectuals”
Michelle U. Campos, University of Florida—“Reconceptualizing Social Ties and Communal Boundaries: A View from Ottoman Palestine”
Julia Cohen, Vanderbilt University—“Late Ottoman Jewish Merchant Networks in the Empire and Beyond”
Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, Northeastern University—“On the Move between Beirut, Cairo and Sao Paulo: Syrian intellectuals and the construction of a global radical network, 1880-1914”
Joshua Schreier, Vassar College—“Commercial Networks and Colonial Communities in Nineteenth-Century Algeria”

Session VIII

Saturday, November 20
2:30pm

[P2348] New Histories of Oil and Urban Modernity in Iraq, the Persian Gulf and Iran

Organized by Nelida Fuccaro, SOAS, University of London

Chair: Peter Sluglett, University of Utah

Discussant: Nelida Fuccaro, SOAS, University of London

Farah Al-Nakib, SOAS—“Kuwait’s Modern Spectacle: Oil Wealth and the Making of a New Capital City
Arbella Bet-Shlimon, Harvard U—“Development and Politics in an Iraqi Oil City: Kirkuk, 1946-58”
Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul U—“Abadan and the Making of the Working Class and the Oil Industry in Iran”
Reem Alissa, University of California, Berkeley—“The Kuwait Oil Company Town of Ahmadi: From British Enclave to Kuwait's Nostalgic City 1946-1975”

Session IX

Saturday, November 20
5:00pm

[P2358] At a Crossroads: Moments of Decision in Israeli Foreign Policy

Chair and Discussant: Neil Caplan, Concordia University

Leonard Binder, UCLA—“The Gulf Between Israel and Egypt 1978-1979
Gershon Shafir, University of California, San Diego—“1971: The Missed Turning Point of Arab-Israeli Relations”
Avi Raz, University of Oxford, Wolfson College—“The Right of No Return: The Israeli Repatriation Scheme for the 1967 Refugees”

[P2570] Innovation & Modernization in Islamic Law and Exegesis

Hania M. Abou Al-Shamat, University of Southern California—“Rigidity versus Openness of Islamic Law: Qadis' and Muftis' motives for innovation within Islamic legal system”
Sarah Azmeh, University of Michigan—“Forging an Islamic Modernity: 'Ali al-Tantawi and His Views on the Law and Women”
Arthur David Kemp Owen, Harvard University—“Averroism Revisited: Does Ibn Rushd's Interpretation of the Qur'an Provide the Basis for a Modernist Rereading of Islamic Law”
Heba Sewilam, UCLA—“The Failed Aspirations of the Early Codification Movement in the Middle East”

[P2578] Kurds in Turkey, Syria & Iraq: Historical Experiences

Sargon Donabed, Roger Williams University—“Misconceptions and Politics: Reconceptualizing 'Historic Realities' in Iraq 1960-1990”
Sevin Gallo, The University of Akron—“Modernity and Honor Violence: The Case of Turkey and the Kurds"
Omer Ozcan, University of Texas at Austin—“Prison and Fortress: Home in the Kurdish Experience of War”
Christian Sinclair, “Kurdish political and cultural rights in Bashar Al-Assad's Syria”
Umut Uzer, Harvard University—“Gokalp and Arvasi between Turkish and Kurdish Identities”

Session X

Sunday, November 21
8:30am

[P2451] Approaches to Governance in the Fatimid Period

Organized by Paul E. Walker, University of Chicago

Chair: Farhad Daftary, Institute of Ismaili Studies

Delia Cortese, Middlesex University, London (UK)—“The Transmission of Sunni Learning in Fatimid Ismaili Egypt”
Shainool Jiwa, Institute of Ismaili Studies—“Governing diverse Communities: The rule of Al-'Aziz bi'llah”
Marina Rustow, Johns Hopkins University—“Jews Who Sought Administrative Redress and What They Tell Us about the Fatimid State”
Maryann Shenoda, Harvard University—“Negotiating Boundaries: Between Coptic Hierarchical Power and Fatimid Governance”
Paul E. Walker, University of Chicago—“Restoration of Dhimmi Status and Rebuilding in the Final Year of al-Hakim: The Caliph's New Approach to Governing the Protected Communities”

[P2479] Hearing Many Voices: Introducing New Resources and Best Practices for Teaching the Israeli-Palestinian Relationship in the K-14 Classroom

Organized by Barbara E. Petzen, Middle East Policy Council

Chair and Discussant: Christopher S. Rose, University of Texas—Austin

Deborah Cunningham, Primary Source, Watertown MA—“Passionate Perspectives on Israel and Palestine: Using Conflicting Statements to Advance Understanding and Dialogue”
Deanne Moore, Hingham High School, Hingham MA—“Using Poetry to Bring Israeli and Palestinian Voices to the Classroom”
Barbara E. Petzen, Middle East Policy Council—“Juxtaposing Perspectives from the Classroom and the Media: Seeing Palestinians and Israelis Make their Cases in Textbooks and Editorial Cartoons”
Greta N. Scharnweber, New York University—“The Politics of Water in the Holy Land”

[P2495] Istanbul, Where Art Thou? City Life and Constitutions of Authority in the Early Modern Ottoman Capital

Organized by Aleksandar Sopov, Harvard University

Melih Egemen, Harvard University—“Circulations: Unauthorized Trade, Everyday Practices, and Constitutions of Authority in Early Modern Istanbul”
Aleksandar Sopov, Harvard University---“Horticultural Change and Innovation in Early Modern Istanbul”
Melis Taner, Harvard University--“From the Gallows to the Grave”
Deniz Turker, Harvard University—“Iconographies of Women in the Evolving Ottoman Metropolis”

[P2339] Spaces of Identity in (Post-) Modern Arab Cities

Organized by Ala Al-Hamarneh, University of Mainz - CERAW

Chair: Gunter Meyer, University of Mainz – CERAW

Discussant: Ala Al-Hamarneh, University of Mainz - CERAW

Ahmed Kanna, University of the Pacific—“Re-Orientalizing the East: Culture as Urban Politics in the UAE”
Sandra Petermann, University of Mainz—“Gentrification in the Medina of Marrakech”
Nadine Scharfenort, University of Mainz—“Requiem for Satwa: Postmodern Reconstructions of Urban Spaces of Modern Authenticity”
Leila Marie Rebecca Vignal, “Cairo: A New 'Tale of Two Cities'?: On Urban Dualism and Two-Tier Societies” Middle East Centre, Oxford University

Session XI

Sunday, November 21
11:00am

[P2354] Urban Livelihoods and Politics

Organized by Silvia Pasquetti, University of California, Berkeley and Ayca Alemdaroglu, Stanford University

Chair: Ayca Alemdaroglu, Stanford University

John William Day, Harvard University—“Notes on Economy and Belonging in Southeastern Turkey”
Reem Fadda, Cornell University—“Ramallah Syndrome": Exposing Spatial and Social Colonial Complicity”
Dina Makram-Ebeid, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)—“We Are Like Father and Son": Neo-liberalism and Everyday Labour Relations at the Egyptian Iron and Steel Plant in Helwan, Egypt”
Silvia Pasquetti, University of California, Berkeley—“Living under Surveillance: Informality and Politics among Palestinians in Lod, Israel”

Session XII

Sunday, November 21
1:30pm

[P2428] Revisiting the Ottoman Imperial Project: Its Advocates and Critiques in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Organized by Side Emre, Texas A&M U

Chair/Discussant: John J. Curry, U of Nevada, Las Vegas

Dimitris Kastritsis, U of St. Andrews—“The Candarli Family of Viziers and the Early Ottoman Imperial Project”
Pinar Emiralioglu, U of Pittsburgh—“Ottoman Geographical Knowledge and Imperial Project: Boundaries of the Ottoman World in the Travel Account of Ali Ekber Khitayi”
Side Emre, Texas A&M U—“Perspectives on the Ottoman Imperial Project in Egypt: The Crossing Paths of a Messianic Conqueror, Sultan Selim (d.1520), a Cairene Saint/Shah, Ibrahim-i Gulseni (d. 1534), and a Hanefi Judge/Ottoman Chronicler, Abdussamed Diyarbekri (d.1542)”
Fatma Sinem Eryilmaz, U of Chicago—“Sultan Suleyman (The Magnificent): An Emperor and a Saint”

[P2515] Arab Nationalism in Mandate Palestine & Iraq

Charles Anderson, New York University—“Rebel Justice: The Revolutionary Courts, State Formation from Below, and Palestine's Great Revolt”
Lauren Banko, SOAS, University of London—“Palestinian Citizenship, 1918-1936: Discourses and Practices
Karam Dana, Harvard University—“The Journey of Mawtini Mawtini: Arab Nationalism from Palestine to Iraq”
Itamar Radai, New York University—“A Tale of Two Cities: The Palestinians in Jerusalem and Jaffa, 1947-1948”

[P2553] Pleasure in the Text: Medieval Arabic Writers and Social Life

Chair: Annie C. Higgins, Wayne State University

Jennifer Hill Boutz, University of Maryland—“The Urbanization of Early Arabic Poetry: A Study of the Ghassanid Odes of Hassan ibn Thabit”
Thomas H. Hefter, University of Oklahoma—“The Addressee and the Occasion of Writing in the Works of al-Jahiz”
Slobodan Ilic, Eastern Mediterranean University—“Nuzhat al-nufus wa tuhfat al-'arus. An Unknown Arabic Manual of Erotology from the 14th Century”
Erez Naaman, Harvard University—“Taboos and Euphemisms in Medieval Arabic-Speaking Society”
Jocelyn Sharlet, University of California, Davis—“Out of the Office: Pleasure and Politics in al-Shabushti's Kitab al-Diyarat”

Affiliation Key

Harvard Faculty:

Cesari, Jocelyne (CMES)
Shakow, Aaron (Lecturer in History of Science; PhD ’09 History/MES)

Harvard Students:

Bet-Shlimon, Arbella (PhD G5, History / MES)
Day, John William (PhD G7, Anthropology/MES)
Sopov, Aleksandar (Phd, G4, History/MES)
Taner, Melis (PhD G2, History of Art/Arch)
Turker, Deniz (PhD, G2, History of Art/Arch/MES )

CMES Current Visiting Researchers:

Wittmann, Richard (PhD ’08, History/MES)

CMES & Harvard Alumni/ae:

Aydin, Cemil (PhD ’02, History/MES)
Binder, Leonard (PhD ’56, PoliSci/MES)
Bulliet, Richard W. (PhD ’67, History/MES)
Gelvin, James L. (PhD ’02, History/MES)
Hashemi, Manata (AM ’07, MES)
Kanna, Ahmed (AM ’02, MES, PhD ’06, Anthropology/MES)
Karakaya-Stump, Ayfer (PhD ’08, History/MES)
Kastritsis, Dimitris (PhD ’05, History/MES)
Khuri-Makdisi, Ilham (PhD ’04, History/MES)
Maddy-Weitzman, Bruce (AM ’77, MES)
Shakow, Aaron (PhD ’09 History/MES)
Tasar, Eren (Phd ’10, History)
Terc, Mandy (AM ’04 MES)
Terem, Etty (PhD ’07, History/MES)
Trepanier, Nicolas (PhD ’08, History/MES)
Tor, Deborah G. (PhD ’02, History/MES)
Voll, John O. (PhD ’69, History/MES)
Wilkins, Charles L. (PhD ’06, History/MES)
Wittmann, Richard (PhD ’08, History/MES)

Past CMES Affiliates:

Dana, Karam (CMES VR, 09-10)
Miller, Susan Gilson (CMES Associate Director, Director of Moroccan Studies Program)
Petzen, Barbara E. (Outreach Director, 2001-2007)
Uzer, Umut (CMES VR, 09-10)