State, Society and Economy in the Modern Middle East
Date: 7 May 2011Time: 9:00 AM
Finishes: 8 May 2011Time: 5:00 PM
Venue: Brunei GalleryRoom: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
Type of Event: Conference
The London Middle East Institute at SOAS is pleased to invite all PhD students with a research focus on the Middle East to submit proposals for its first Middle East PhD Students International Conference to be held at SOAS on 7-8 May 2011. The conference will provide an opportunity for young scholars to present their research and work in progress. This is an international conference open to all PhD students focusing on the Middle East.
Poster Session: A number of presenters will be exhibiting their research in the form of a poster as part of a Poster Session that will be organised alongside the main conference.
Admission: £30 both days & £20 one day; Conc. (including Students): £15 both days & £10 one day.
Pre-registration required.
LMEI PhD Conference: State, Society and Economy in the Modern Middle East Programme
Panel 1: Iran - The Struggle for Democracy
The Many Shades of Green: social welfare in Iran and the struggle for hegemony
Sarah Marusek, Maxwell School of Syracuse University, New York
The Collective Action of Mujahedeen-e Khalq Organization (MKO): evolution, interests and current situation
Moisés Garduño, UAM (Madrid)
Iranian entrepreneurs: agents of democratization?
Peyman Jafari, University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History
Panel 2: Women
‘She’ and the War: a feminine-Spanish-journalistic approach to the invasion of Iraq
Carmen Vidal Valiña, Universidad Complutense De Madrid and Spanish National Research Council
Institutionalising Gender: women’s political participation in Jordan
Marta Pietrobelli, SOAS
Neoliberal Policies and Women Slum Dwellers in Turkey
Burcu Şentürk, University of York
Panel 3: Palestine-Israel
Imagining the ‘Other’?: a Palestinian perspective on Israeli identity
Isabelle Hesse, University of York
The Middle East Conflict and its Displaced Persons – Arab and Jewish Refugees Issue Analysis and Future Prospects
Lena Gorska, University Opole
The Palestinian Minority in Israel and the Middle East Peace Process
Mazen Masri, York University, Toronto
Panel 4: Iraqi Migration to Syria - Political and Anthropological Perspectives
Decision Making in Conditions of Civil War
Ali Ali, University of East London
Religion as a Cultural Resource in the Lives of Palestinian Iraqis in Damascus
Tahir Zaman, University of East London
Syrian State Sovereignty in the Context of Iraqi Migration
Sophia Hoffmann, SOAS
Panel 5: Saudi Arabia
Exploring Foreign Language Anxiety in Saudi Arabia: a study of female EFL college students
Taghreed M. Al-Saraj, Institute of Education, University of London
Developing State-Society Discourse in Saudi Arabia: the Saudi ‘National Dialogue’ and the role of King Abdulaziz Center for National Dialogue (KACND)
Mark Thompson, University of Exeter
Panel 6: Kurds - Nationalism and Identity
Women and Nationalism: how women activists are changing the Kurdish conflict
Massoud Sharifi Dryaz, École des hautes études en sciences sociales
The Future of Rising Kurdish Nationalism in the Modern Middle East: comparative perspectives of Turkey, Israel and Iran
İzzettin Sümer, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale
Kurdish Identity-Making: instruments and possibilities during the last 100 years in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Zoltán Egeresi, Corvinus University of Budapest
Panel 7: Community Development and NGOs
Tourism and Sustainable Community Development
Maryam Hamedi, London Metropolitan University
‘Helping Nature, Helping People’? Negotiating Local Development (through ecotourism) and Government in Dana Village, Jordan
Katharina Lenner, Freie Universität Berlin
Panel 8: Voice, Memory and Agency in Egypt (1882-1956)
The Voice of ‘Antara - A Revolutionary Hero in 1882, Cairo
Adam Mestyan, Central European University, Budapest
Unsung Heroes: reading the ‘Suez Crisis’ through the lyrics of ‘resistance’
Alia Mossallam, LSE
“Amateur Modernity” and Literary Translation in Early 20th Century Egypt
Nariman Youssef, University of Manchester
Panel 9: Economics
The Political Economy of Investment Liberalisation in Syria
Linda Matar, SOAS
Future Chances of Economic Integration in the MENA Region
Dániel Gugán, Corvinus University of Budapest
The Patterns of Economic Diversification in the States of the Gulf Cooperation Council: natural resources, democracy and Islam
Annika Kropf, University of Vienna
Panel 10: Turkey - Religion, Secularism and the State
From Islamic Radicalism to Islamic Capitalism: the rise of neo-Islamist bourgeoisie in Turkey
Ozlem Madi-Sisman, Bilkent University
Islamic Business and the State: the cases of Turkey and Egypt
Evrim Gormus, University of Washington
Compulsory Religion Education and Religious Minorities in Turkey
Ayşe Seda Müftügil, University of Amsterdam
Panel 11: Turkey - Power, Democracy and Religion
A Closer Look at the Abolotion of the Caliphate: how complex can religion and politics get?
Gulay Turkmen, Yale University, New Haven
Can the Pious Theorize?: Liberal Democracy, Power and Muslim Intellectuals in Contemporary Turkey
Dunya Deniz Cakir, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Turkish Party Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP, Justice and Development Party) and Local Politics in Anatolia
Charlotte Joppien, University of Hamburg
Panel 12: Refugees and Human Rights
Iraqi Refugees, UNHCR, and the State: forced displacement and the reconfiguration of sovereignty in the Middle East
Perveen Ali, LSE
Debating Family Law in Contemporary Iran: conceptions of Sharia and women’s rights
Marianne Bøe, University of Bergen
Freedom of Thought and Expression in Iran: a comparative study of the ICCPR, Islamic Law and Iranian laws
Nargess Tavassolian, SOAS
Panel 13: Lebanon - the State, Civil War and Hezbollah
The neoliberal restructuring of the state in post-civil war Lebanon
Hannes Baumann, SOAS
Panel 14: Islam, the State and Ideology
Islamic Nationalism VS Islamic Ummatism/al-Ummatya: conceptualizing Political Islam
Amjad Dajani, King’s College London
Why a “Rapprochement” or Some Sort of Collaboration Between Islamist and Leftist Groups in Lebanon and Palestine?
Joseph Daher, SOAS
Panel 15: Security and Foreign Policy
State Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East: the Saudi-Iranian case
Adel Al-Toraifi, LSE
Ambivalent Episodes in Iran’s Post-‘9/11’ Foreign Policy
Ali Fathollah-Nejad, SOAS
Panel 16: Iran - Culture and Politics
Alienation or Belonging: the representation of cultural memory in contemporary literary texts by exiled Iranian Jewish women writers
Jennifer Langer, SOAS
Reflections on the Iranian Presidential Institution, 1979-2009
Siavush Randjbar-Daemi, Royal Holloway
Panel 17: Kurds - Insurgency and Foreign Policy
Primacy of Foreign Policy in Turkey’s Kurdish Reforms
Mehmet Uğur Ekinci, SOAS
Kurdish Conflict and Building Peace in Turkey. The Limits of Neo-Liberal Pro-Islamist Politics
Cuma Cicek, Sciences Po
From Denial to Insurgency: the PKK and the reconstruction of Kurdish identity
Ahmet Hamdi Akkaya, Ghent UniversityPanel 18: Colonialism & Aftermath
Assyrian Colonial Encounters: the collective re-settlement of a community
Fadi Dawood, SOAS
Imamic Yemen’s Sacred National Charter (1948): failed interpretations of an established social compact
Fernando Carvajal, University of Exeter
