#  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](/files/MESA-Participants-2010_4_0.pdf) is also available. For further information about the panels or the annual meeting, visit the [MESA website](http://mesana.org/).

 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](mailto:jbodnyk@fas.harvard.edu).

####  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 17th 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)



 

 

 

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