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