Panels 2015

MESA 2015 (Washington D.C.)

Gendered Spaces in the Arabian Peninsula [4063]
Monday, 11/23/15 8:30 am

• Gender, the Courts and the Law: Challenging the Private Space of the Home in the Public Space of the Courtby Fay, Mary Ann
• “Women are Killing Us on Instagram”: Gender, Social Space, and Saudi Arabia’s Online Community by Foley, Sean
• Qatari Women and the Majlis Al-Hareem: Participation and Effects by Mitchell, Jocelyn Sage
• Women in Protest: Bahraini and Omani Women in the Arab Spring by Moritz, Jessie
• Emirati female intellectuals: On challenges, spaces for advancement and production of gendered discourse by Carvalho Pinto, Vania

Trans/nationalism in the Arabian Peninsula: Continuities and Disjunctures [4067 ]

Sunday, 11/22/15 8:30 am

• Western expatriate participation in shaping hierarchies of gender, class and nationality in Saudi Arabia by Le Renard, Amelie
• Vision 2030 and Qatar’s trans/national future: redefining the terrain of ethnocracy within American branch campuses by Vora, Neha
• Burying Muhammad Ali Jauhar: The Life and Death of the Meccan Republic byWillis, John M.

Economic Development and the Transformation of Gulf Landscapes. [4172]

Monday, 11/23/15 11:00 am

• The Transformation of Gulf Landscapes in the Early Islamic Period by Ulrich, Brian J.
• Reflecting the Gulf: Arab views of the sea in literature and song by Haiduc-Dale, Noah
• From Barren Wasteland into Productive Space: Abu Dhabi’s Environmental Development Projects, 1971-2004 by Hightower, Victoria
• Nation-Building and the Commercialization of Agriculture in the Trucial States/UAE: The Case of Digdagga, Ras al-Khaimah by MacLean, Matthew