Program
History, Politics and Culture in the Middle East
International Conference of the Department for History and Culture of the Middle East of Hamburg University, the German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation (DAVO) and the Section of Islamic Studies of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG)
3–5 October 2019 in the Asia-Africa-Institute of Hamburg University, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 (East), 20146 Hamburg.
Program
Thursday, 3 October 2019
11.00 – 12.00: General Meeting of DAVO Members (Room 121)
12.00 – 13.00: General Meeting of DMG Section for Islamic Studies (Room 122)
13.00 – 14.00: Lunchbreak
14.00 – 16.00: Panel Slot A
A.1. Room 120
Social Policy and it Consequences in the Middle East and North Africa
Chairs: Kressen Thyen (Bremen) / Irene Weipert-Fenner (Frankfurt)
1. Roy Karadağ (Bremen): Theories of the Welfare State and what they (could) mean for the MENA
2. Kressen Thyen (Bremen) / Roy Karadağ (Bremen) : Origins and Dynamics of North African Social Policy: Tunisia and Egypt in Historical Perspective
3. Irene Weipert-Fenner (Frankfurt): Conflicts over Socioeconomic Reforms in Egypt and Tunisia
4. Clara-Auguste Süß (Frankfurt) / Irene Weipert-Fenner (Frankfurt): Radicalization and Socioeconomic Marginalization in Egypt and Tunisia
A.2. Room 121
Recent Developments in Euro-Mediterranean Relations: Any Change Ahead?
Chair: Anja Zorob (Birzeit)
1. Riham Bahi (Cairo): The Mediterranean Reset and the Return of Geopolitics
2. Angelos Giannakopoulos (Dortmund): Eastern Mediterranean Energy Reserves as a Factor of Peace or Conflict: Recent Geostrategic Developments in the Levantine Basin and European Prospects
3. Alexander Niedermeier (Cairo): Counter-Terrorism Cooperation in the Mediterranean – Conflicting Institutions, Interests and Ideas and how to deal with them to Combat the Threat of Terrorism in Europe and the MENA Region
4. Anja Zorob (Birzeit): Research and Innovation in Euro-Mediterranean Relations: A New Cornerstone of Interregional Cooperation?
A. 3. Room 108
Gender and Law: Culture, Politics and Constitutions
Chairs: Schirin Fathi / Serena Tolino (Hamburg)
1. Serena Tolino (Hamburg): Law and Feminism: Struggling for Gender Equality in Egypt
2. Yahia H. Zoubir (Marseille)/Souadou Lagdaf (Catania): The Woman Question in Algeria and Libya: The Betrayed Revolutionary Promises
3. Schirin Fathi (Hamburg): Gender Equality in Jordan: Palace or Constitution?
4. Valentina Scotti (Istanbul): Gender Equality as a Constitutional Principle in Turkey
A.4. Room 122
Rethinking the Process of 'Normalization' of Islamist Parties in Light of the Models of 'Civil State' and 'Islamic Securalism’, Part I
Chairs: Alia Gana (Paris), Anca Munteanu (Paris), Ester Sigillò (Pisa)
1. A. Kadir Yıldırım (Houston): Party-Movement Separation and Islamist Party Evolution: The Case of Ennahdha
2. Anca Munteanu (Paris) / Ester Sigillò (Pisa): Ennahda and the Notion of “Civil Party”: Pluralization of Discourses and Practices in the Light of the “Specialization”
3. Alexis Bloüet / Clément Steuer (Paris): Civil State and Religious Party: Two Disputed Legal Notion in the Egyptian Context
4. Haoues Seniguer (Lyon): A Secularist Among Islamists: The Case of Saadeddine al-Othmani in Morocco
5. Belkacem Benzenine (Oran): Islamic parties and the relationship between religion and state in Algeria
A. 5. Room 209
Beyond Shariʿa and Fiqh: on the Diversity of Islamic Normative Cultures, Part I
Chair: Heydar Shadi (Frankfurt/Hamburg)
1. Heydar Shadi (Frankfurt/Hamburg): Non- Shariʿa Normative Fields in the Islamic Knowledge Culture
2. Serdar Kurnaz (Hamburg): Human Experience and Non-Religious Sciences as Sources of Law in Ibn Rushd’s Legal Hermeneutics According to the Bidāyat al-mujtahid wa-nihāyat al-muqtaṣid
3. Hamida Behr (Hamburg): Shariʿa, Democracy and Human Rights: Legal Systems Clashing in a Battle of Civilizations?
4. Sabrina Sohbi (Munich): Halal Food and the Purpose of Law in Sufi Legal Hermeneutics. An Example from the Work of ʿAbd al-Wahhāb aš-Šaʿrānī (d.1565)
A.6. Room 123
Al-Andalus and the Mashriq
Chair: Thomas Eich (Hamburg) / Adday Hernández López (Madrid)
1. Adday Hernández López (Madrid): Andalus is in the East. Spatial Mobility as a Mechanism of Knowledge Transmission
2. Mohammad Gharaibeh (Bonn): Andalusian Scholars in Cairene Teaching Institutions in the late Ayyubid and Early Mamluk Periods
3. Khaoula Trad (Hamburg): The Impact of Maghribi Ḥadīth Commentaries on the Mashriq
4. Thomas Eich (Hamburg): The first commentaries written on the Arbaʿīn Nawawīya
5. Michele Petrone (Louvain): Al-Šaʿrānī as Transmitter of Ibn ʿArabī and Andalusi Thought
A.7. Room 124
Variations of Islamic Orthodoxy and Religious Authority in the Mughal Period
Chair: Johannes Rosenbaum (Bamberg)
1. Meenakshi Khanna (Delhi): Title: “Revivifying Religious Authority of Dreams: An Exposition from ʿAbd al Haqq Muhaddith Dihlavi’s Mudarij al nabuwat”
2. Johannes Rosenbaum (Bamberg): A Sufi Critique of Reason and Philosophy in the Writings of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Muḥaddith Dihlawī
3. Neda Saghaee (Erfurt): Dimensions of Mystical Leadership in Eighteenth Century India: A Study on Pīr Muḥammad Zubayr, the last “Qayyum”
16.00 – 16.30: Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.00: Panel Slot B
B.1. Room 120
Jordan under King Abdullah II: The Next Twenty Years
Chair: André Bank (Hamburg) / Discussant: Maria Josua (Hamburg)
1. Benjamin Schütze (Freiburg): US and European Interventions in the Name of Democracy: the Reinforcement of Authoritarianism in Jordan
2. André Bank (Hamburg): Less Talk, More Rock? Authoritarian Practices in Hashemite Jordan
3. Miriam Bohn (Erlangen): The Uninvited Guest? Linking Decentralization and Elite Networks in Jordan
B.2. Room 123
Manuscripts in Arabic Script and Digital Humanities
Chair: Alba Fedeli (Hamburg)
1. Thomas Milo (Amsterdam) / Alicia González Martínez (Hamburg): Unbiased Digital Search on Arabic Script: Making Use of the Paleo-Orthographic Layer of Representation Together with the Search Algorithm Yakabikaj
2. Alba Fedeli (Hamburg): Overlapping between Manuscript Culture and Digital Encoding: Perspicacity of the Readers and Ambiguity in Qur’anic Manuscripts
3. Thomas Eich (Hamburg): Writing Variants in Online Ḥadīth Collections as a Source in Digital Humanities
B.3. Room 108
The Early Islamic Empire at Work
Chair: Stefan Heidemann (Hamburg)
1. Stefan Heidemann (Hamburg): The Reach of the Empire
2. Hannah-Lena Hagemann (Hamburg): On the Edge of Empire: The Jaziran North in the Early Islamic Period
3. Antonia Bosanquet (Hamburg): Slave Trade and Governance in 8th and 9th Century Ifrīqiya
B.4. Room 122
Rethinking the Process of 'Normalization' of Islamist Parties in Light of the Models of 'Civil State' and 'Islamic Securalism’, Part II
Chairs: Alia Gana (Paris), Anca Munteanu (Paris), Ester Sigillò (Pisa)
1. Shaimaa Magued (Cairo): Islamist Parties and Regimes’ Consolidation in the Middle East from a Gramscian Perspective: the Case of Egypt after January 25
2. Lamia Neji (Sfax) / ( Alia Gana (Paris): The Political Integration of the Tunisian Islamist Party Ennahdha to the Test of the Notion of Civil State. A “Normalization” Above any Suspicion?”
3. Sebastian Elsässer (Kiel): Is it Possible to Separate Daʿwa and Politics? Discussions Inside the Arab Muslim Brotherhood Since the Tunisian Nahda’s Sontroversial Paradigm Shift
4. Naima Bouras (Le Havre): The Egyptian Salafi and the Ambiguity of the Civil State’s Notion
B.5. Room 209
Beyond Shariʿa and Fiqh: on the Diversity of Islamic Normative Cultures, Part II
Chair: Heydar Shadi (Frankfurt/Hamburg)
1. Inès Mrad Dali (Tunis): The Anti-Slavery Islamic Thoughts
2. Pernilla Myrne (Gothenburg): Sexual Ethics in Premodern Arabic-Islamic Sex Manuals
3. Maaike Voorhoeve (Amsterdam): Studying Contemporary Legal Practice in Muslim Contexts: the Case of Tunisia
B.6. Room 124
Politics and Poetry: The Ottoman-Safavid Conflict in the Sixteenth Century
Chair: Christiane Czygan (Hamburg) / Discussant: Abdurahim Abu Husayn (Beirut)
1. Christiane Czygan (Hamburg): Between Old and New: Multi-layered Toleration in Sultan Süleyman’s Third Divan (1554)
2. Gül Şen (Bonn): Narrating the Ottoman Campaign Against the Safavids During 1578−1590
3. Javad Miri (Tehran/Göteborg): A Reflection on Shah Ismail's Poetry
B.7. Room 121
Theology and Philosophy
Chair: Stefan Reichmuth (Bochum)
1. Angelika Brodersen (Bochum): Transformation Processes in 6./12. Century Māturīdism: Nūr al-Dīn al-Ṣābūnī (d. 580/1184) and his Kitāb al-Kifāya fī l-hidāya fī ʿilm al-kalām
2. Hanada Kharma (Birzeit): Locating the Adib: Good Teacher, bad Teacher and the Location of Ethical Philosophy Between al-Jahiz and al-Ghazali’s adib and mualim
B.8. Room 232
Bücher, Zeitschriften, Datenbanken, Open Access – ein Service für die Nahostwissenschaft
Henry Gerlach (Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Nahost-, Nordafrika- und Islamstudien, Halle)
18.30: Evening Program, University of Hamburg, Main Building, Edmund-Siemers Allee 1, Lecture Hall B
18.30 – 19.00: Grußworte / Welcome Addresses
Jun. Prof. Dr. Serena Tolino, University of Hamburg, Department for History and Culture of the Middle East
Prof. Dr. Eva Wilden, University of Hamburg, Vice Dean of the Faculty for Humanities
Prof. Dr. Günter Meyer, President of DAVO
Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichmuth, Speaker of the Section Islamic Studies of the DMG
Verleihung der Dissertationspreise der Annemarie Schimmel Stiftung und der DAVO
Awarding the Prizes of the Annemarie Schimmel Foundation and DAVO for the Best Dissertations
19.00 – 20.00: Keynote Speech of Prof. Roberto Tottoli (Naples):
"The Qurʿan in Europe:Textual Features of Modern Age Editions with Special Reference to Abraham Hinckelmann’s Work"
20.00: Empfang / Reception (Asia-Africa Institute, Room 221)
Friday, 4 October 2019
9.00 - 11.00: Panel Slot C
C.1. Room 120
Towards New Social Contracts in MENA Countries? Prospects for Economic and Social Policy Reform, Better Governance and National Dialogues, Part I
Chairs: Markus Loewe / Bernhard Trautner (Bonn)
1. Markus Loewe/Bernhard Trautner (Bonn): Introduction to the Panel
2. Melani Cammett (Cambridge, MA)/Ishac Diwan (Paris)/Irina Vartanova (Stockholm): The Effects of Insecurity on Political Values in the Arab World
3. Erin McCandless (New York): Forging Resilient and Inclusive Social Contracts to Achieve and Sustain Peace: Drawing Lessons from Tunisia for the MENA Region
4. Laryssa Chomiak (Tunis): State/Society/Protest in Contemporary Tunisia
5. Zafiris Tzannatos (Beirut): The Youth Bulge than was not the Mismeasured, Misunderstood and Mistreated Arab Youth
C.2. Room 108
National Identity and Legitimacy of Power
Chair: Lutz Berger (Kiel)
1. Martina Ponižilovà (Pilsen): Problems of the Westphalian System of States in the Middle East
2. Serhun Al (Izmir): Statelessness, Ontological (In)Security and the Competing Kurdish Nationalisms in the Middle East
3. Ilham Shahbari (Bradford): Internationalisation of the National Aspirations of the Palestinian Arab Citizens of Israel
4. Raja Abdel Aziz (Heidelberg): Middle Eastern Jews in Modern Arab Thought
C.3. Room 123
Vulnerabilität von Geflüchteten im Fokus von Forschung und Praxis
Chairs: Annette Jünemann / Julia Simon (Hamburg)
1. Sandra Göttsche (Hamburg): Die Vulnerabilität des Fremden: Der “Flüchtling” als politische und vulnerable Figur
2. Mattea Weihe (Hamburg): Von Libyen über das Mittelmeer nach Europa: Fehlende Seenotrettung als Höhepunkt der Vulnerabilität von Migrant*innen
3. Nicolas Fromm / Hamza Safouane (Hamburg): Gruppenasyl und die Zukunft staatenloser Menschen
C.4. Room 121
Legislation and Adjudication in the Modern Middle East
Chair: Nadjma Yassari (Hamburg)
1. Dominik Krell (Hamburg): The Other Side of ijtihād: The Concept of the Prevailing Practice and its Application in Contemporary Saudi Arabia
2. Shéhérazade Elyazidi (Hamburg): The Role of the Kurdish Family Law in Rojava and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq in the Nation-Building Process
3. Lena-Maria Möller (Hamburg): Choice of Partner and Spousal Equivalence in a Heterogenous Society: On the Judicial Interpretation of kafāʾa in the United Arab Emirates
4. Dörthe Engelcke (Hamburg): Applying Byzantine Family Law in the Greek Orthodox courts in Amman and Jerusalem: Adjudication in Settings of Legal Pluralism
C.5. Room 122
What? Where? How? Why?: Understanding ‘de’, ‘anti’, and ‘post’ Sectarianization Moves in the Contemporary Middle East
Chair: Dietrich Jung (Odense)
1. Anne Kirstine Rønn (Aarhus): How far can De-Sectarianization Travel? A Concept Analysis of Civil Society Opposition to Identity Politics in Lebanon and Bosnia-Herzegovina
2. Morten Valbjørn (Aarhus): “Be careful what you wish for” − The Multiple Strategies of De-Sectarianization
3. Samira Nasirzadeh (Lancaster) / Edward Wastnidge (Milton Keynes): De-Sectarianization and Diplomacy: The View from the Islamic Republic
4. Simon Mabon (Lancaster): When the Geopolitical Meets the ‘Intimately Tiny’: A Spatial Analysis of De-Sectarianization
C.6. Room 124
Challenged by the Decreased Price of Oil: Adjustment Policies in the Arab Gulf and Beyond since 2014
Chairs: Martin Beck (Odense) / Thomas Richter (Hamburg)
1. Crystal Ennis (Leiden): When the Levee Breaks: Oil Price Collapse and Economic Adjustment in the Sultanate of Oman
2. Gertjan Hoetjes (Durham): Stalled Reform: The Resilience of Rentier Dynamics in Kuwait
3. Amr Adly (Cairo): Egypt’s Twisted Oil Dependency: A Case of Semi-Rentierism
4. Martin Beck (Odense) / Thomas Richter (Hamburg): Adjustment Policies in (Semi-)Rentier States: A Comparative View on the Middle East Since 2014
C.7. Room 209
Workshop for Young Scholars
Chairs: Christian Steiner (Eichstätt) / Steffen Wippel (Falkensee)
1. Nils Lukacs (Hamburg): The Search for a New Beginning: Obama and the United States’ Legacy in the Middle East
2. Maria Cristina Visentin (Bayreuth): Zwischen Mediterranität und arabischer Islamizität? – Die mediterrane Identität in Tunesien
3. Ufuk Şahin (Berlin): Die Abkehr der AKP-Regierung von einer Versöhnungspolitik in der türkisch-2. kurdischen Frage
4. Laura Rowitz (Hamburg): Die kafāla als Arbeitsmigrationsregime: Wandel und Kontinuität im katarischen Recht im 20. Jahrhundert
11.00 – 11.30: Coffee Break
11.30 – 13.30: Panel Slot D
D.1. Room 120
Towards New Social Contracts in MENA Countries? Part II
Chairs: Markus Loewe/Amirah El-Haddad (Bonn)
1. Wael al-Khatib (Amman), and Sean Yom (Philadelphia): The Social Contract in Jordan at 100 Years: Revisiting Identity
2. Tina Zintl (Bonn): Divide and Rule in the Taxi Business? How the Car-hailing Services Uber and Careem Illustrate Jordan’s Shifting Social Contract
3. Martin Hvidt (Odense): The Dubai Model of Development − Changing the Social Contract
4. Ingrid El Masry (Marburg): No Lighthouse in Sight? Post-2011 Tunisia and the Need for Sustainable Development
D.2. Room 124
Politics and Economy in Golf Countries
Chair: Thomas Richter (Hamburg)
1. Marianne Laanatza (Stockholm): The Challenges of Established Political Coordination and Economic Cooperation Between the Arab Monarchies
2. Mahmoud Farag (Berlin): Authoritarian Consolidation and Regime Survival in the Gulf Monarchies
3. Selim Öztürk (???): The Future Clash Between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in Yemen
D.3. Room 123
Zur Diversifizierung von Verantwortung in der Flüchtlingspolitik
Chairs: Annette Jünemann / Nicolas Fromm (Hamburg)
1. Julia Simon (Hamburg): Transnationale Migrantenströme und defizitäre Nationalstaaten – die EU als „natural choice“ zur Ausübung von Verantwortung, Solidarität und Souveränität in der „Migrationskrise“?
2. Sybille Münch (Lüneburg): Deutsche Migrationspolitik im Mehrebenensystem. Zur Rolle von Städten und Kommunen bei der Abschiebung und Rückkehrförderung
3. Annette Jünemann (Hamburg): Deutschlands Willkommenskultur: unter welchen Bedingungen kann ehrenamtliche Unterstützung Geflüchteten helfen, Kontrolle über ihr eigenes Leben (zurück-) zu gewinnen?
D.4. Room 209
Discourses in Islamic Movements
Chair: Heydar Shadi (Frankfurt/Hamburg)
1. Arash Reisinezhad (Miami) Power and Violence in Islamism
2. Abed Kanaaneh (Bochum): Al-Akhbar as a Platform for Interaction Between Secularity and Religion: The Resistance as a Synthesis
3. Kiki Santing (Groningen): The Battle for the Islamic Reader in Mubarak’s Egypt: An Analysis of al-Liwaʾ al-Islami and Liwaʾ al-Islam
4. Philipp Bruckmayr (Wien): Trajectories of the Transmission and Transformation of Black Muslim Movements in the Americas, the Caribbean and Great Britain
D.5. Room 108
Nationalism, Neoliberalism & Patriarchy in Turkey: Ecofeminism as a way out
Chair: Zuhal Yeşilyurt Gündüz (Ankara)
1. Didem Ünal (Helsinki): Critical Pious Agency and Feminist Protest in the Age of Authoritarian, Right-Wing Populism: The Case of Turkey
2. Zuhal Yeşilyurt Gündüz (Ankara): Turkey: Ecological Blindness and Growth Fetishism
3. Tuğçe Çetinkaya (Ankara): Ecofeminism: Thinking Nature and Gender Together
D.6. Room 122
Digital Authoritarianism: Tools and Types of Authoritarian Rule in the Digital Age
Chairs: Mirjam Edel, Ahmed Maati, Oliver Schlumberger (Tübingen) / Discussant: Roy Karadağ (Bremen)
1. Mirjam Edel, Ahmed Maati, Koray Saglam, Tasha Schedler, Oliver Schlumberger (Tübingen): Digital Authoritarianism as a New Field of Research: Transforming Repertoires or Regimes?
2. Ahmed Maati/Saleh Elsayed (Tübingen): “They are always watching you”: The Relevance of Surveillance Technology to the Study of Authoritarianism
3. Thomas Demmelhuber/Tobias Zumbrägel (Erlangen): With a Little Help from the West: The Diffusion of “Digital Regime Survival Kits” in the Middle East
4. Mojtaba Gholipour (Tehran)/Mazaher Koruzhde (Miami): The Dark Side of Digital Authoritarianism
D.7. Room 232
Religion and Politics in Maghreb Countries
Chair: N.N.
1. Sylvia Bergh (Rotterdam): The Politics of Democratic Decentralization Reforms: Insights from Morocco’s Advanced Regionalization Process.
2. Fatima-Ezzahrae Touilila (New York): What Happened to the Land of Saints? The Politics of Sufism in Contemporary Morocco
3 Aline Alencar (Erlangen): Ennahda from Within: From Political Islam to Muslim Democracy
4. Guy Eyre (London): Divine Paths to Politics: Islamist-Salafi Political Competition and the State in North Africa
5. Youcef Hamitouche (Algiers): The Berber Protest in Algeria
D.8. Room 121
Book launch: Filiation and the Protection of Parentless Children: Towards a Social Definition of the Family in Muslim Jurisdictions. By Nadjma Yassari, Lena-Maria Möller, and Marie-Claude Najm, eds.,The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2019.
The anthology Filiation and the Protection of Parentless Children is the first publication to examine filiation and the care of parentless children in eleven Muslim jurisdictions from both a country-specific and a comparative perspective, including analyses of premodern Sunni and Shiʿi legal positions as well as that of contemporary Arab private international law regimes.
The book launch will be hosted by the co-editors Nadjma Yassari and Lena-Maria Möller and will include presentation from selected country rapporteurs involved in the project.
13.30 – 14.30: Lunchbreak
14.30 – 16.30: Panel Slot E
E.1. Room 120
Towards New Social Contracts in MENA Countries? Part III
Chairs: Markus Loewe / Tina Zintl (Bonn)
1. Markus Loewe (Bonn)/Georgeta Vidican Auktor (Nürnberg): Rationalising Public Transfer Spending in the Middle East and North Africa: Strategic Options to deal with Challenges
2. Amirah El-Haddad (Bonn): Redefining the Social Contract in the Wake of the Arab Spring: The Experiences of Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia.
3. Hania Sobhy (Göttingen): Education and the Lived Social Contract in Egypt Before and After the Uprisings
4. Annabelle Houdret (Bonn)/Hichem Amichi (Toulouse): The Rural Social Contract in Morocco and Algeria: Reshaping Through Economic Liberalization and new Rules and Practices
E.2. Room 121
Unfolding Continuities in Turkish Politics Across Time and Space
Chairs: Hakkı Taş (Hamburg) / Salim Çevik (Berlin)
1. Lutz Berger (Kiel): The Soldier as Suffering Messiah. A Common Topos in Turkish Politics
2. Charlotte Joppien (Hamburg): “In Turkey, politics is done by touching the People.”
3. Hakkı Taş (Hamburg): The First Turkish Friday Sermons: A Genealogy of Official Islam in Turkey
4. Salim Çevik (Berlin): What Happened to the Secular Turkey? Religious Politics in the “New Turkey”
E.3. Room 108
Political and Social Conflicts Reflected in Literature
Chair: Christiane Czygan (Hamburg)
1. Majjd Al-Mallah (Allendale): Invoking Women in al-Andalus: A Comparative Study
2. Maryam Musharraf, Leila Mohammadi (Tehran): Socio-Political Renovation and the Rise of new Satirical Forms During the Constitutional Period of Iran
3. Dorit Gottesfeld (Ramat Gan)/Ronen Yitzhak (Acre): Culture and Literature in the Early Days of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
4. Khaled Igbaria (Musmus): Belonging and Identity Throughout the Poetry of Samih al-Qasim and Tawfiq Zayyad
E.4. Room 122
Political and Social Developments in Syria
Chair: Mirjam Edel (Tübingen)
1. Housamedden Darwish (Cologne): Islam and Democracy in the Thought of Sadik J. al-Azm
2. Rahaf Aldoughli (Lancaster): Religion as a Source of Legitimacy and Security: an Interrogation of the Construction of Sunni Islam in Bashar al-Assad’s Speeches (2011−2017)
3. Javad Keypour, Hanna Pintson (Tallinn): Turkey, Iran, Russia Trilateral Cooperation in Syrian Civil War. An Aftermath of the U.S Withdrawal
E.5. Room 123
Stigmatised Tasks/Stigmatised Origins: Islam, Low-Status Professional Groups and Descent in the Middle East and Sahel, Part I
Chair: Elia Vitturini / Discussant: Édouard Conte
1. Valerio Colosio (Brighton): People of the Mountains, Sons of the People and Cursed Blacksmith
2. Luca Nevola (Brighton): The Sons of the Fifth: Beyond Purity/Impurity, Castes as Regimes of Value in Contemporary Highland Yemen.
3. Marta Scaglioni (Milano): “We are not original by name”: Racial, Professional, and Genealogical Stigmatization of the Shwashin in South-Eastern Tunisia
E.6. Room 232
Foreign Policy in the MENA Region
Chair: Hanna Pfeifer (Hamburg)
1. Nina Milan (Tartu): Incentives Behind Russian Oil and Gas Companies’ Foreign Direct Investment: Empirical Evidence of Kurdistan Region of Iraq
2. Olivia Glombitza (Barcelona): Iran’s Ideological Path to the Nuclear Deal. Discourse and Action
3. Ali Granmayeh (London): Palestine in Iranian Politics − Ideology vs Pragmatism
4. Jan Zouplna (Prague): Are we still Friends? Franco-Israeli Partnership at the Turn of the 1950s and 1960s
E.7. Room 209
Children’s Agency and Politics in the MENA Region, Part I
Chairs: Chiara Diana (Brussels) / Nazan Maksudyan (Berlin)
1. Inès Mrad Dali (Tunis): The Enslaved Children in Tunisia During the Abolitionist Period (1840's-1890's)
2. Maureen Barbara Jackson (Seattle): Hidden Boyhoods: Musical Feasting in Late Ottoman Izmir
3. Leyla Neyzi (Glasgow): ‘It Was Hard’: Kurdish Youth Depict (their) Childhood
4. Nazan Maksudyan (Berlin): The Armenian Genocide and Survival Narratives of Children
5. Chiara Diana (Brussels): Experiencing the Politics: Children’s Political Agency and Revolution in Tunisia
16.00 – 16.30: Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.30: Panel Slot F
F.1. Room 120
Towards New Social Contracts in MENA Countries? Part IV
Chairs: Markus Loewe/Annabelle Houdret (Bonn)
1. Fabio Coriolano (Warsaw): Healthcare Systems in Selected Islamic Countries
2. Bernhard Trautner (Bonn): Supporting new Social Contracts for Dysfunctional Middle Eastern States − Instead of Fictitious Nation Building
3. Mark Furness (Bonn): The German Guidelines on Crisis Prevention and Peacebuilding, and Germany’s Responses to Conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa
4. Gubara Said Hassan (Muscat): Sudan’s Uprisings: For Hurriyyah (Freedom), Salam (Peace) and Adalah (Justice)
F.2. Room 121
Facing the Facts on Tremulous Grounds: The State of MENA Political Science after the Arab Uprisings
Chair: Jan Busse (Munich) / Discussant: André Bank (Hamburg)
1. Maria Josua (Hamburg) / Mirjam Edel (Tübingen): Comparative Politics after the Arab Uprisings: The Shock to Authoritarianism Research and the Return of Repression
2. Jan Claudius Völkel (Freiburg): Publish and Perish? Revisiting Normative Requirements of Social Science Research in an Increasingly Repressive MENA Region
3. Morten Valbjørn (Aarhus): Observing (the Debate on) Sectarianism: On Conceptualizing, Grasping and Explaining Sectarian Politics in a new Middle East
F.3. Room 123
Stigmatised Tasks/Stigmatised Origins: Islam, Low-Status Professional Groups and Descent in the Middle East and Sahel, Part II
Chair: Luca Nevola / Discussant: Luca Ciabarri
1. Elia Vitturini (Milano): Hierarchy and Social Change: Hereditary Groups of Occupational Specialists in the Somali Territories
2. Marco Lauri (Macerata/Urbino): Genealogies and Hierarchies of the Imagined Communities in Medieval Muslim Political Thought
F.4. Room 122
Emerging Regional Order Practices in andBeyond the Gulf
Chairs: Hanna Pfeifer (Hamburg) / Jens Heibach (Hamburg)
1. Thomas Demmelhuber (Erlangen): Shifting Alliances and Preferences: Saudi-Arabia’s Foreign Policy Under the Salmans
2. Jens Heibach (Hamburg): Making Sense of Middle Eastern Regional Powers’ Engagement in Africa
3. Hanna Pfeifer (Hamburg): How do Arab Monarchies Legitimise the External Use of Force? An Emerging Post-Liberal Security Architecture in the Middle East and North Africa
F.5. Room 209
Meeting of the Association for Middle East Children and Youth Studies (AMECYS)
19.00 – 21.30: Evening Program
University of Hamburg, Main Building, Edmund-Siemers Allee 1, Hörsaal / Lecture Hall B
Film Presentation “The Judge” (Film by Erica Cohn about the first woman judge appointed to a Sharia Court in Palestine) followed by a discussion with Prof. Dr. Irene Schneider (Göttingen), director of the project “Hochschuldialog islamische Welt. Recht zwischen Dialog und Übersetzung. (Das Beispiel Palästina)” and expert for questions of law and gender in Palestine, chaired by Jun. Prof. Dr. Serena Tolino (Hamburg)
Saturday, 5 October 2019
9.00 – 11.00: Panel Slot G
G.1. Room 122
Middle East Politics of the USA and its Ally Turkey
Chair: Hakkı Taş (Hamburg)
1. Fouad Touzani (Fez): The Impact of US Think Tanks on US Foreign Policy in the Middle East and North Africa
2. Nils Lukacs (Hamburg): Obama’s Road to Cairo: The President’s Rhetorical Journey, 2008–2009
3. Heiko Schuß (Kayseri): The Economic Effects of Turkey’s Africa Strategy
G.2. Room 121
The Influence of Religious Concepts on State Building and Inter-State Relations
Chair: Philipp Bruckmayr (Wien)
1. Milad Dokhanchi (Kingston): Impact of Islamic Philosophy in State Building in the Middle East
2. Yaser Aein (Mashhad): The Rise of New Messianic Movement: Critical Review of Shiite Rebuttal Writings Against Ahmad al-Hassan and the Ansar Al-Imam Al-Mahdi Movement
3. Housamedden Darwish (Cologne): The Formation of the Concept of Secularism in “ar-Radd ʿala a dahriyyin”: Secularism as a Thick Normative Concept
4. Nina Dalai Milan / Rusif Huseynov (Tartu): Iranians and Azerbaijanis: Shia Brotherhood or Enmity
G.3. Room 120
The Prophet and the Modern State
Chairs: Stefan Reichmuth /David Jordan (Bochum)
1. Stefan Reichmuth (Bochum): The Prophet in a Muslim Age of Revolutions (ca. 1775−1850)
2. Florian Zemmin (Bern): The Modern Prophet: Rashīd Riḍā’s Construction of Muḥammad as Religious and Social Reformer
3. David Jordan (Bochum): “…so let today be all the Arabs Muḥammad”: The Prophet in the Discourse of the Iraqi Baʿth Party
4. Christoph Günther (Mainz): Al-Dawla al-nabawiyya: Recreating the Prophet’s Presence in the Islamic State’s Media
G.4. Room 108
Cross-Cultural Relations in Art and Literature
Chair: Dorit Gottesfeld (Ramat Gan)
1. Natia Dundua (Tbilisi): Persian Gospel in Georgian Script Preserved at the Georgian National Center of Manuscripts
2. Jeries Khoury (Tel Aviv): The Influence of the Poet T.S. Eliot on Modern Arabic Poets and Critics- A Theoritical Survey
G.5. Room 209
Workshop for Young Scholars
Chairs: Christian Steiner (Eichstätt) / Steffen Wippel (Falkensee)
1. Eyüp Murat Kurt (Ankara): The Idea(s) of Tradition in the Ottoman Empire among the Ottoman Intellectuals during the Reform Age (From the Ottoman Reform Edict of 1856 to the Second Ottoman Constitution 1908)
2. Alessandro Porrà (Cagliari): The Jewish community of Istanbul suspended between Erdoğan and Aliyah
3. Monica Mereu (Cagliari): Iranian-Jewish Women: Construction and Deconstruction of an Identity in Revolutionary Iran
4. Tomoyo Chisaka (Osaka): Electoral Manipulation in Iran’s Parliamentary Elections 1980-2016: Leadership, Elites, Citizenry
G.6. Room 232
Unsettling Secular-Liberal Orthodoxy on Contemporary Pakistan
Chair: Junaid S. Ahmad (Leeds)
1. Sonia Qadir (Sydney): De-Colonial Feminism and Liberation Theology in Pakistan
2. Junaid S. Ahmad (Leeds): Native Orientalism in Contemporary Pakistan
11.00 – 11.30: Coffee Break
11.30 – 13.30: Panel Slot H
H.1. Room 121
Forced Migration in the MENA Region: Transformation, Politics and Social Change in Immigration Societies
Chair: Eva Fuchs (Hamburg)
1. Danae Panissié (Tübingen): Priorities vs. Realities: German Migration Policies in the Middle East
2. Sima Baidya (New Dehli): Who Transforms Whom? Transformed Complexities with Depth and Motion in Onion-like Structure
3. Zeyneb Şahin-Mencütek (Duisburg): Transnational Practices and Capabilities of Syrian Refugees in Turkey
4. Eva Fuchs (Hamburg): Transnational Refugee Families in Germany
H.2. Room 122
Neoliberal Urbanization in the Arab World and Beyond
Chair: Ala Al-Hamarneh (Mainz)
1. Hassan Elmouelhi: New Administrative Capital − Cairo: Power, Urban Development and Social Injustice: The Official Egyptian Model of Neoliberalism
2. Jana Nakhal (Beirut): A Certain Neoliberal Urban Revolution: the Beiruti Political Hipster of Non- Contestation
3. Ala Al-Hamarneh (Beirut): “We are all Bouazizi” − Right to the City in the Arab World: The Case of the Street Vendors in Tunis
H.3. Room 123
Meeting the challenges to academic freedom in Middle East Studies
Chair: Ilyas Saliba (Berlin)
1. Ilyas Saliba (Berlin): Towards an Index of Academic Freedom in the Middle East and North Africa
2. Jannis Grimm (Berlin) / Kevin Köhler (Leiden): Presentation of the Handbook / Project on SAFEResearch
3. Vera Axyonova (Berlin): “Academics in Solidarity” – A Practitioner’s Perspective
4. Florian Kohstall (Berlin): North-South Cooperation and Academic Freedom: The Role of Universities
5. Sarah Wessel (Berlin): Hidden Agendas – Reflections on a Researcher’s Roles in a Violent Context
H.4. Room 124
Iran: Revolts and Socioeconomic Problems
Chair: Sara Bazoobandi (Hamburg)
1. Mustafa Caner (Sakarya): The Rise and Fall of the Iranian Reform Movement (1997−2005)
2. Ali Fathollah-Nejad (Doha): The 2017/18 Iranian Revolt in Comparative Perspective
3. Mohammad R. Farzanegan (Marburg): Drought and Property Prices: Empirical Evidence from Iran
4. Ali Fathollah-Nejad (Doha): Revisiting Iran Sanctions: Conflict Resolution and State-Society Relations
H.5. Room 120
Gender, Power and Authority in the Middle East
Chair: Serena Tolino (Hamburg)
1. Enise Şeyda Kapusuz (Florence): The New Ottoman Muslim Woman: Photography, Modernization, and Women in Late Ottoman Istanbul (1913-1918)
2. Negar Partow (Wellington): Sex and Sexuality: the Bastion of Religious Power in the Middle East
3. Anne Clément (Bern): In Search for Emancipation from the Margins: Rethinking Learning, Knowledge, and Authority in (post)-Revolutionary Egypt
4. Tinatin Kupatadze (Tbilisi): Cyberfemism in Iran
5. Ivana Cosmano (Leeds): Deconstructing the Gender Normativity Narrative. Jordanian Young Men Challenge Notions of Hegemonic Masculinity