Several Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies faculty and student affiliates will be at the 2017 Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Conference. If you will be at MESA, come join us at these various panels:

Samer Ali
Director, CMENAS and Associate Professor, Near Eastern Studies
“Why does Shahrazad Succeed?: Disrupting the Scapegoat Cycle with Cold Hard Cachet” 

Kathryn Babayan
Associate Professor, Near Eastern Studies
“Fashioning Philosopher-Kings in the Post-Mongol Persian Cosmopolis, 13th-19th Centuries”

Carol Bardenstein
Associate Professor, Near Eastern Studies
“Representations of Jews in Contemporary Arabic Literature”

Secil Binboga
PhD Student, Architecture
“Tectonics of development: The Gold War politics of spatial expertise in Turkey”

Ali Bolcakan
PhD Student, Comparative Literature
“From multilingualism to monolingualism: Turkish language reform ad non-Turks”

Dzovinar Derdarian
PhD Student, Near Eastern Studies
“Traversing space and transforming belongings into nation and empire among itinerants of Van, 1820s-1870s”

Shahla Farghadani
PhD Student, Near Eastern Studies
“From the garden to the bathhouse: poetry, eros, and daily like in Isfahan”

Fatma Muge Gocek
Professor, Sociology and Women’s Studies
“Confronting Sexual Harassment in the Academy”

Tugce Kayaal
PhD Student, Near Eastern Studies
“War, orphanages, and print media: Gendering and nationalizing orphan boys in the late Ottoman Konya during the First World War”

Nama Khalil
PhD Student, Anthropology
“Iconographic battle: Visual responses to Rab’a Massacre”

Jean Lachapelle
Fellow, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies
“Protests and Police Responses in Egypt between 2004 and 2011: a Comprehensive Dataset”

Nancy Linthicum
PhD Student, Near Eastern Studies
“Egyptian ‘girls’ writing’ and the politics of translation”

Simone Prince-Eichner
JD Student, Law
“Embodying the empire: Singing slave girls in medieval Islamicate historiography”

Elizabeth Rauh
PhD Student, History of Art
“An artist curating Islamic heritage: Ali Jabri and the Jordan Museum of Popular Traditions”

Bryan Roby
Assistant Professor, Judaic Studies
“Repatriation and Transgressive Migrations of Mizrahi Jews from Israel to the Arab World”

Marian Elizabeth Smith
PhD Student, Near Eastern Studies
“Refiguring Timu the philosopher-king in the Safavid cultural imagination: accretions and interpolations to Hatifi’s Timur-nama”

Leigh Stuckey
PhD Student, Anthropology
“Undercover politics: Exchange organizations and minority identity in Turkey”

Mark Tessler
Professor, Political Science
“Arab Public Opinion Research: Challenges and Prospects”

Melanie Tanielian
Assistant Professor, History
“Nourishing Bodies and Souls: The Maronite Church’s Relief Effort in Mount Lebanon during the Great War”

Duygu Ula
PhD Student, Comparative Literature
“Towards a local queer aesthetics: Nilbar Gures’s photography and female homoerotic intimacy”

Ana Vinea
Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Studies
“Debating Law, Culture, and Mental Health: A View from Contemporary Egypt”

Daniel Williford
PhD Student, History
“Infrastructures of violence and zones of restraint in colonial urban Morocco”