Panel Title: Governance and Authority in MENA

Thursday, September 15, 8:00am to 9:30am

Chair: Silvana A. Toska

Discussants: Sean Yom, Chagai Weiss

 

Paper Title: The Political Risks of Subsidy Reform in the Middle East and North Africa

Presenter(s): Moritz Schmoll, Amir Abdul Reda, Thomas Richter

Paper Title: Powering the Divide: Solar Projects in East-Jerusalem as Peacebuilding Strategy

Presenter(s): Elai Rettig

Paper Title: Authoritarian Futures: Aspirations and Compliance among Jordanian Youth

Presenter(s): Adam Almqvist

Paper Title: Persuading Depoliticized Youth to Cast Informed Votes in Authoritarian Contexts

Presenter(s): Romain Reda Ferrali, Guy Grossman, Horacio Alejandro Larreguy

 

Panel Title: Poster Session: Politics of the Middle East and North Africa Region

Thursday, September 15, 9:30am to 10:30am

Chair: Scott Williamson

Discussants: Shirin Saeidi, Shamiran Mako

 

Paper Title: Unpacking the ‘Security Services’

Presenter(s): Rosalie Rubio

Paper Title: Existential Threats and Value Chagne in Displaced Peoples: The Sinjar Yezidi

Presenter(s): Jordan Greaser

Paper Title: How Does Geo-Historical Factor Affect Voting? Case of Baghdad in Election 2021

Presenter(s): Keiko Sakai

 

Panel Title: Gender, Policy and Political Processes in MENA (Virtual Session)

Thu, September 15, 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Chair: Valentine M. Moghadam

Discussants: Carolyn Barnett, Nermin Allam

 

Paper Title: Less Power, More Gender Legislation – Women in the Israeli Knesset

Presenter(s): Noa Balf

Paper Title: Mapping and Explaining Experiences of Domestic Violence in the Arab World

Presenter(s): Jessica Lucas, Mark Tessler

Paper Title: Social Media, Gender, and Campaigning in Authoritarian Elections

Presenter(s): Nawra Al Iawati, Gail Buttorff

Paper Title: Women of Islamism: Salafi Women after the Egyptian Revolution

Presenter(s): Laurence Deschamps-Laporte

 

Panel Title: Ethnic Identity and Patterns of Conflict and Governance in the Middle East

Friday, September 16, 8:00am to 9:30am

Chair: Lars-Erik Cederman

Discussants: Killian Clarke

 

Paper Title: Informal Politics and Ethnic Conflict in the Middle East: Beyond Exceptionalism

Presenter(s): Kevin Mazur, Salam Alsaadi

Paper Title: Ethnic Exclusion under Neopatrimonialism, One-Partyism, and Democracy

Presenter(s): Yusuf Magiya, Bogdan Gabriel Popescu, Günes Murat Tezcur

Paper Title: State-Building and Borderlands: Control of the Turkish State on Everyday Level

Presenter(s): Dilan Okcuoglu

Paper Title: Ethnicity, Sect, and State Violence: The Case of Bahrain

Presenter(s): Staci Strobl

 

Panel Title: Public Opinion in the Middle East and North Africa

Friday, September 16, 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Chair: Mark Tessler

Discussants: Gail Buttorff, Richard Nielsen

 

Paper Title: Social Tolerance for Migrants on the Prayer Mat but Less Elsewhere?

Presenter(s): Matt J. Buehler, Kristin E. Fabbe

Paper Title: Trust and Mask Wearing during COVID-19 Autocracies

Presenter(s): Yuree Noh

Paper Title: Can Democratic Values Bring the Parties to the Table in a Protracted Conflict?

Presenter(s): Ibrahim Khatib

Paper Title: Alliance and Sectarian Attitudes in the MENA

Presenter(s): Alireza Raisi

 

Panel Title: Islam and Politics in MENA

Friday, September 16, 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Chair: Günes Murat Tezcur

Discussants: Steven Brooke

 

Paper Title: Why Do Dictators Build Big Mosques?

Presenter(s): Yasmina Abouzzohour, Ahmed Mohamed

Paper Title: Religion Ministries and Authoritarianism: Repression, Co-optation, Legitimation

Presenter(s): Ani Sarkissian, Ann Marie Wainscott

Paper Title: The Love and Hate Relationship of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State

Presenter(s): Sedef Asli Topal

Paper Title: Of Friends and Foes: Rethinking Transnational Islamic Politics in North Africa

Presenter(s): Guy Eyre

 

Panel Title: State and Nation Building Strategies in the Contemporary Middle East

Saturday, September 17, 10:00am to 11:30am

Chair: Avital Livny

Discussants: Benjamin Smith, Lisel S. Hintz

 

Paper Title: Searching for Redemption: Toponymic Cleansing and Nationalist Control in Turkey

Presenter(s): Aysegul Aydin, Cem Emrence

Paper Title: Self-Determination Strategy: Palestinian Dilemmas and Prospects for Change

Presenter(s): Nathaniel Shils

Paper Title: Making “Ideal Diasporas:” Exclusionary Membership Politics of Divided Home States

Presenter(s): Gözde Böcü. Jonathan Grossman

Paper Title: Mapping the Nation: Street Names and Iranian Identity

Presenter(s): Ehsan Kashfi

 

Panel Title: Collective Action, Violence and Transitions

Saturday, September 17, 2:00pm to 3:30pm

Chair: Sinem Arslan

Discussants: Eva R. Bellin

 

Paper Title: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t: Syrian perceptions of US foreign policy

Presenter(s): Ora B. Szekely

Paper Title: Military Coups and Democratic Persistence: Evidence from Egypt and Tunisia

Presenter(s): Quinn Mecham

Paper Title: Cell Phones, Internet, & Collective Violent Action in the Libyan Revolution

Presenter(s): Kevin Grier

Paper Title: Libya after Qaddafi: Are Tribes Always Rebels?

Presenter(s): Raed Shehab Ahmed

 

Panel Title: New Frontiers of Research on Gender in MENA Politics

Sunday, September 18, 8:00am to 9:30am

Chair: Ellen M. Lust

Discussants: Aili Mari Tripp

 

Paper Title: State Capacity, Social Protection and Gender in the MENA

Presenter(s): Gamze Cavdar

Paper Title: The Afterlife of Women’s Participation in the 2011 Egyptian Uprising

Presenter(s): Nermin Allam

Paper Title: Gender, Group Composition and Perceptions of Legitimacy

Presenter(s): Kristen Kao, Marwa Shalaby, Ellen M. Lust

Paper Title: The Gendered Politics of Iran-U.S. Relations: Toward a Feminist Foreign Policy

Presenter(s): Valentine M. Moghadam

APSA Middle East 2022 Panel Presenters