SPEAKERS

LAHOUARI ADDI, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Lyon, France, Lahouari Addi is a Professor of Sociology at Institut d'Etudes Politiques at the University of Lyon, France, and a member of the Research Center Triangle (CNRS). He was Visiting Professor at UCLA in 2007 and Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 2002-2003. His past publications on Algeria include: L'Algerie et la Democratie, La Decouverte (1995), Les Mutations Sociales en Algerie (La Decouverte, 1999), and Sociologie et Anthropologie Chez Pierre Bourdieu (La Decouverte, 2002). He has written various articles in specialized journals in Europe and America on Political Islam and is currently writing a book on Geertz and Gellner in North Africa.

LINDSAY BENSTEAD, Princeton University, currently works as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at Princeton University. Benstead received her Ph.D. in Public Policy and Political Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 2008. Her dissertation investigated legislative representation and public opinion in Morocco and Algeria. More specifically, Benstead explored the explanatory connection between parliamentary rules (formal and informal) and variation in members’ provision of programmatic and particularistic benefits. She also examined the effects of this link on public opinion. Benstead is now working to complete several articles on public opinion in the Middle East and North Africa based upon nationally-representative surveys. She hopes to revise her dissertation for publication and launch a new research project centered on constituency service in the Gulf region.

MOUNIRA CHARRAD, University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D, Harvard University, is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas in Austin. She is the author of the award winning book, States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. She co-edited Femmes, Culture et Société au Maghreb and is currently co-editing a volume on Patrimonial Politics, Then and Now. Her articles have appeared in journals and edited collections. She served as Advisor to Freedom House for the Survey of Women’s Rights in the Middle East and North Africa. Her research interests include colonialism, state formation, law, women’s rights, and conceptions of modernity.

ABDELKADER CHEREF, Islamic University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Exeter, Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies. He started his Doctoral dissertation as a Fulbright grantee, when he joined the University of Texas at Austin. So far, he has been a freelance journalist and a Lecturer in African-American studies, and Maghrebi Arabophone and Francophone Literature. His research interests are primarily in postcolonial literatures, and his publications are concerned with cultural traditions and politics, and the intersection of the ‘public’ and the ‘personal.’ He has currently two books in the works. One is titled The Triumph of the Muzzled which is a postcolonial feminist reading of selected narratives by African-American and Maghrebi women. The second book is titled Challenging the Hegemony of Arab Nationalism and Islamism: Ethnic and Religious Minorities in the Maghreb. This book project revolves around three religious and ethnic minority groups, namely the Ibadhis, Berbers, and Touaregs, and shows how totalizing ideologies such as Arab nationalism and Sunni-Maliki Islam have hampered the legitimate aspirations of non-Arabs and non-Sunni-Moslems, and exacerbated the tensions between communities in the Maghreb.

BAUDOUIN DUPRET, Centre National de la Recherche Supérieure, France, Baudouin Dupret is a tenured research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris and a guest lecturer in Islamic law and socio-legal sciences at the University of Louvain and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. His current work involves a praxiological approach to the production of truth in Arab contexts, including courts and parliaments, scientific expertise, the media, and religious education. He has edited several scientific journals and numerous volumes, most recently Narratives of Truth in Islamic Law (Saqi Books, 2008), and he has published extensively in the fields of sociology and anthropology of law, legislation and media. His latest book explores the ethno-methodology of adjudication (Le Jugement en Action: Ethnométhodologie du Droit, de la Morale et de la Justice en Egypte, Geneva, Droz, 2006).

KEVIN DWYER, American University of Cairo, Egypt, is a Professor of Anthropology at the American University in Cairo. After receiving his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University, Dwyer taught at Columbia University and Brooklyn College through the 1970s and then went on to serve as the Director of Amnesty International’s Middle East Research Department (1978-84) and as the Director of the Institut de Recherches Appliquées of Tunis (1991-2001). His research focuses on human rights, freedom of expression, and creative activity in the Arab world.

MOKHTAR GHAMBOU, Yale University, teaches and writes on postcolonial literature and theory, the modern American novel, and world literature. His fields of interest also include English and French Orientalism, minority literature, Mediterranean studies, desert fiction, and theories of migration. His book, Nomadism and its Frontiers (forthcoming), explores the aesthetics and politics of mobility in literature, ethnography, history, and critical theory.

FRANK GRIFFEL, Yale University, is a professor of Islamic Studies, teaches courses on Islamic intellectual history and Islamic theology and philosophy. He focuses amongst others on developments in contemporary Muslim thought. He is author of Al-Ghazali’s Philosophical Theology (Oxford University Press 2009), Apostasy and Tolerance in Islam (in German, Brill 2000), as well as of numerous articles in academic journals. Together with Abbas Amanat he edited Shari’a: Islamic Law in the Contemporary Period (Stanford University Press 2007). In 2003-04, he was Mellon Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

JEAN-NOËL FERRIÉ, Centre National de la Recherche Supérieure, France, Jean-Noel Ferrié is the Research Director at the Institute of Political Studies of Grenoble (CNRS). He was a member of the Political and Moral Sociology Group (EHESS), setting the stakes for morals and morality in political interactions and the public sphere, and he served as the Editor-In-Chief of l'Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord from 1998-2001. He was a research associate in political science at CEDEJ in Cairo and Visiting Professor at the Institute of Political Science at Université Saint-Joseph (Beyrouth). His research topics include: political equilibrium in authoritarian regimes; structuring of public space and deliberation; and media, morality, and veridiction.

MOHAMMED HACHEMAOUI, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris, France, Mohammed Hachemaoui received his Ph.D in Political Science in 2005 from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. He is a Lecturer at Université d'Alger and writes numerous articles on contemporary Algerian politics in Revue Française de Science Politique, Maghreb Sciences Sociales and Arab Reform Review. Dr. Hachemaoui was maître de conférence invité at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in 2008 and a Visiting Professor at the University of Perpignan since 2007. He is the founder and moderator of Les Débats d'El Watan, a monthly public conference in Algiers. His study of the system of corruption in contemporary Algeria, entitled Patrons et Bandits. Clientélisme et Corruption dans l’Algérie Contemporaine ( Paris: PUF, 2009), is forthcoming.

BÉATRICE HIBOU, Centre National de La Recherche Supérieure, France, is a Senior Research Fellow of the Centre National de La Recherche Supérieure, France. Hibou holds a degree from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP) and a Ph.D. in Political Economy from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, 1995). She taught at Sciences Po in Paris and Bordeaux (1998-2000) and was a member of the editorial boards of Politique africaine (1998-2001) and Critique international (1998-2003). Hibou now serves as the co-founder and vice-president of Fonds d’Analyse des Sociétés Politiques (FASOPO) and spearheads a research group on historical sociology of the economy at the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI). Her research focuses on the political significance of economic reform in sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb, and Europe from a Weberian perspective.

MARCIA INHORN, Yale University, PhD, MPH, is the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology and The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. She also serves as Chair of the Council on Middle East Studies. Before coming to Yale in 2008, Inhorn was a professor of medical anthropology at the University of Michigan and president of the Society for Medical Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association. A specialist on Middle Eastern gender and health issues, Inhorn has conducted research on the social impact of infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in Egypt, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, and Arab America over the past 20 years. She is the author of three books on the subject, Local Babies, Global Science: Gender, Religion, and In Vitro Fertilization in Egypt (Routledge, 2003), Infertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt (U Pennsylvania Press, 1996) and Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility, and Egyptian Medical Traditions (U Pennsylvania Press, 1994), which have won the AAA's Eileen Basker Prize and the Diana Forsythe Prize for outstanding feminist anthropological research in the areas of gender, health, science, technology, and biomedicine. She is also the editor or co-editor of six books, including Anthropology and Public Health: Bridging Differences in Culture and Society (Oxford U Press, 2009), Reproductive Disruptions: Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium (Berghahn Books, 2007), and Infertility around the Globe: New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender, and Reproductive Technologies (U California Press, 2002). She has been a visiting faculty member at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, where she has conducted studies on “Middle Eastern Masculinities in the Age of New Reproductive Technologies” and “Globalization and Reproductive Tourism in the Arab World.” She is the founding editor of JMEWS (Journal of Middle East Women's Studies) of the Association of Middle East Women's Studies, and co-editor of the Berghahn Book series on "Fertility, Sexuality and Reproduction."

WILLY JANSEN, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, is an anthropologist and currently professor of women’s studies and director of the Institute for Gender Studies at the Radboud University Nijmegen. Topics of research interest include: gender, religious diversity, (mixed) pilgrimage, identity, Islam and sexuality, Christians in the Middle East, food rituals and women's education. She did anthropological research in Algeria on marginalized gender categories, which resulted in the book Women Without Men. Gender and Marginality in an Algerian Town (1987 Leiden: E.J.Brill) and various articles. Later she focused on the history of women’s education in Jordan. She edited Lokale islam. Geloof en ritueel in Noord-Afrika en Iran (1985); Islamitische pelgrimstochten (1991) (with H. de Jonge); Waanzin en vrouwen (1991) with C. Brinkgreve, and Moved by Mary. Power and Pilgrimage in the Modern World, (2009, in press by Ashgate) with A.K. Hermkens, A.K.and C. Notermans.

JEREMY KEENAN, Bristol University, UK, is a Professorial Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London University. While Keenan’s research has focused predominantly on Africa, especially the Sahara (1964-1972, 1998-2008) and ‘apartheid’ South Africa (1974-1986), his current research has directed his interests toward the anthropology of globalization, terrorism and counter-terrorism (especially the impact of the current, post September 11th “War on Terror” on Africa), and ethnicity and identity of marginalized and repressed peoples. Among other accomplishments, Keenan is the co-producer of five films and the author of five books, including his two latest books, The Dark Sahara: America’s War on Terror in Africa and The Dying Sahara: US Imperialism and Terror in Africa (in press 2009).

TOLGA KOKER, Yale University, works on the political economy of Islamism and secularism in Turkey. In particular, his research examines the repercussions of dissimulating revealed preferences under social pressures. He has also written on the economics of terrorism and conflict, especially in Iraq as well as on refugee studies in the Balkans.

ADRIA LAWRENCE, Yale University, is Assistant Professor of Political Science. Her research interests include nationalist and ethnic politics, colonialism and empire, political mobilization, state formation, and Middle East and North African politics. Her dissertation, “Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism,” investigates the conditions that encouraged populations to revolt against empire in both violent and non-violent ways. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program and the American Institute for Maghrib Studies.

ELLEN LUST, Yale University, is Associate Professor of Political Science. Her research concerns the dynamics of political opposition, the formation of political institutions, and the links between foreign policy and domestic crisis, focusing on the Middle East. Her articles have appeared in International InteractionsM, Middle Eastern Studies, and edited volumes.

ABDALLAH LABDAOUL, Faculté de droit, Casablanca, Morocco, Abdallah Labddaoui is a Professor of Political Science and serves as Vice Dean in charge of educational and student affairs at the Faculty of Law, Economics, and Social Sciences in Casablanca. He is a founding member of the Association of Moroccan Political Science and a former member of the French Association of Political Science and the Canadian Association of Political Science. He is currently working on a project entitled “The invention of liberalism made in Morocco,” which seeks to respond to the recurrent epistemological question: What paradigm exists for the social sciences in non-Western society? His past works include New Arab Intellectuals (Paris, L'Harmattan, 1993), which received a grant from the French Ministry of Education and Culture, and Intellectuals of the East, Intellectuals of the West (Paris, L'Harmattan, 1996).

IVAN MARTIN, University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, currently spearheads research at both the Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI) of Madrid and at the European University Institute of Florence. Previously, Martin directed the Socio-Economic Forum of the Casa Arabe and its International Institute for Arab and Muslim World Studies in Spain, served as an Associate Professor of International Political Economy at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid for six years, and taught a variety of undergraduate, graduate, and masters programs at universities throughout Spain for thirteen years. Martin specializes in Europe-Maghreb economic relations, economic and employment policies in Arab Mediterranean countries, the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, and the impact of North-South Free Trade Areas. Martin is also a member of the Editorial and International Advisory Boards for the Journal of Mediterranean Politics, as well as a member of the Scientific Council of WOCMES 2010 (World Congress of Middle East Studies). In 2008, Martin spent eight weeks with the Agence de Développement Social (Social Development Agency) of Morocco fighting poverty and performing the ground research that he will present at this conference. His publications can be found at www.eco.uc3m.es/immartin/.

NADIA MARZOUKI, Yale University, Post Doctoral Associate and Lecturer, Council on Middle East Studies, Council on African Studies and Department of Political Science. Her research interest includes Political Islam in Mauritania and Morocco. She is currently teaching Political Islam in North Africa.

ENNAJI MOHA, University Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah, Fès; Rutgers University; is a researcher and professor at Rutgers University since 2006, and a full professor affiliated to Sidi Mohamed Ben dAbdellah University since 1982. Ennaji is a scholar of international renown. He is the author and/or editor of numerous books and articles on Moroccan languages, gender, family law, culture, education, migration, civil society and human rights.

HALLA NASSAR, Yale University, Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic Culture and Literature. Her research interests focus on contemporary cultural and literary productions in the Arab world, especially in Palestine. She is mainly engaged in twentieth-century drama and theatrical production of the postcolonial/colonial Arab world. She researches the relationship of contemporary Arabic poetry, to address various social and political issues of the Arab world.

MARGARET RAUSCH, University of Kansas, is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas and attained her PhD from the Free University of Berlin. Her research focuses on Islamic History, Sufism, Women in Islam, Popular Religious Expression in Islam, and Muslim Women Singers. She has received numerous grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, 2004 (for research on Tajik and Moroccan Berber Women's Islamic Practices), the Multi-Country Research Fellowship, Council of American Overseas Research Centers, 2003 (for research on Tajik and Moroccan Berber Women's Islamic Practices), and the American Council of Learned Societies, 2002-2003 (Moroccan Women and Religious Expression: A Berber Women's Sufi Association in the Atlas Mountains). Rausch’s latest projects include Tajik and Moroccan Tashilhit Berber Women's Islamic Practices: Celebrating Religio-Cultural and Ethno-Linguistic Identity.

FATIMA SADIQI, Center for Studies and Research on Women, Fès, Morocco, is Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies and Director General of the Fes Festival of Sacred Music (www.fesfestival.com). She has written extensively on Moroccan languages and Moroccan women’s issues. She is the author of Women, Gender, and Language in Morocco (Brill, 2003), Grammaire du Berbère (L’Harmattan, 1997), Images on Women in Abdullah Bashrahil’s Poetry (: 2004), Migration and Gender in Morocco (with Moha Ennaji, Red Sea Press: 2008), The Dialogue of Civilizations: The Self and the Other (with Moha Ennaji, Red Sea Press, 2008), and Women Writing Africa. The Northern Region (with Moha Ennaji, Amira Nowaira and Azza El Kholy). Fatima Sadiqi was a Harvard Fellow in 2007 and currently serves as the Director of Isis Center for Women and Development. Website: www.fatimasadiqi.on.ma

MARK TESSLER, University of Michigan, is the Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, where he also serves as Vice Provost for International Affairs and directs the University’s International Institute. A graduate of the University of Tunis and of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tessler received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University and then went on to direct the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Arizona until 2001. The author, coauthor, or editor of twelve books, Tessler specializes in the study of public opinion in the Arab world. His professional service activities include the presidency of two international scholarly societies, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies and the Association for Israel Studies. Tessler has also served on the steering committee of the Palestinian-American Research Center; consulted for the World Bank, the United Nations, and the U.S. State Department; and edits one of the country’s leading scholarly book series in the field of Middle East Studies.

I WILLIAM ZARTMAN, Johns Hopkins University, is the Jacob Blaustein Distinguished Professor Emeritus of International Organization and Conflict Resolution at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University in Washington, and member of the Steering Committee of the Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Vienna. He was previously All-University Head of the Politics Department at New York University. He has been a Distinguished Fellow of the United States Institute of Peace, Olin Professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, and Elie Halévy Professor at the Institute for Political Studies (Sciences Pô) in Paris, and received a lifetime achievement award from the International Association for Conflict Management. He is author of a number of books on negotiation, including The Practical Negotiator, Ripe for Resolution, and Cowardly Lions: Missed Opportunities to Prevent Deadly Conflict and State Collapse, and the editor of other works on the subject, including Power and Negotiation and Elusive Peace. He is also President of the Tangier American Legation Museum Society, and was founding President of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies and past President of the Middle East Studies Association. His doctorate is from Yale (1956) and his honorary doctorate from Louvain (1997).

SALOUA ZERHOUNI, Faculté de Droit, Rabat, Morocco, Saloua Zerhouni earned a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Hassan II in Casablanca. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Mohammed V University in Rabat, where she has taught courses on constitutional law, political institutions, methods of social sciences, Islamic public law and human rights. Her past work has focused on elites as agents of change and theories of political transformation, the Parliament, Islamist movements and political parties in Morocco. She served as a research associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Berlin) and contributed to a study on “Elite Change in the Arab World.” She also co-edited Political Participation in the MENA Region (Boulder, Lynn Rieners, 2008) with Ellen Lust.