The conference will be held at Allard Hall at UBC’s Vancouver campus. For a map and directions, please see our Location, Transportation and Accommodation Guide.
9:15-9:55am: Registration + Coffee
Location: Allard Lobby
10:00-10:55am: Keynote Lecture by Dr. Mark Muhannad Ayyash
Location: Allard 105
Dr. Mark Muhannad Ayyash, Decolonial Sovereignties in Palestine: The Intifada's Popular Committees as a Guide Towards a Decolonial Life
11:00-12:25pm: Panels 1 and 2
Panel Chair: Nesrine Basheer
Location: Allard 122
McNeal Mann (WWU), Orature, Feminism and Film within the Senegalese Context
Sude Guvendik (SFU), African Muslim Stiwanism in Hausa literature
Sarah Milligan (UNBC), 'The Wickedest Town in the World': Space, Anxiety, and Illicit Sex Work in Egypt, 1834-1949
Salma Amer (SFU), Gender Equality in Egypt: Online mobilization and Meditated representations on Transnational streaming services
Panel Chair: Martin Bunton
Location: Allard 123
Samantha Sam Olson (UVic), FM 3-24 and Religious Literacy in American Military Operations in the Middle East
Carter Dungate (UBC), Oil and Water: Libya’s Control of Natural Resources in the Qaddafi Era
Zahra Khan (KPU), Exile; Democracy, Imperialism and the Political Sense of Self
Nancy Hamad (UBC), Perpetual Wars: Paramilitaries and Proxy Wars in the Middle East
12:25-1:45pm: Catered lunch provided by Tayybeh
Location: Allard Lobby
1:50-3:15pm: Panels 3 and 4
Panel Chair: Amir Shiva
Location: Allard 122
Mozhgan Fazli (SFU) and Parsa Alirezaei (SFU), Not So Green: Paradigm Shift in the Iranian Political Resistance Discourse and the Political Economy of Protest in Iran from 2009 to 2022
Baktash Gourdarzi (UVic), The Persian Cossack Brigade and Russian Imperialism in Qajar Iran
Hoornaz Keshavarzian (SFU), Bodies that Rebel: From a Nonmovement to a Revolution
Maral Sahebjame (UW), A social nonmovement: White marriage in Iran
Panel Chair: Hicham Safieddine
Location: Allard 123
Katerina Kat Hansraj (SFU), Disinformation in the Iraq War
Brynne Gillies (UBC), Why Are We Not Past Ancient Aliens Narratives? How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Ancient Near East
Sabah Ghouse (SFU), Unveiled: Analyzing the Representation of Muslim Women in Canadian Print Media
Shehroze Ahmed Shaikh (SFU), Musings of the unlettered: Bazaar-gup and the Surveillance of Muslim Political Expression in the Bombay Presidency, 1912-14
3:20-4:45pm: Panels 5 and 6
Panel Chair: Elif Sarı
Location: Allard 122
Marianne El-Mikati (UBC), Borders, Identity and Belonging: Navigating Middle Eastern Diasporic Experiences in Solidarity with Indigenous Communities in Turtle Island
Ava Tabatabaei (UBC), From Everywhere and Nowhere: Understanding Iranian-American Identity as a Balancing Act
Samuel Arnone-Roller (UW), Nation in Absence of Homeland: Displaced Indigeneity in Yarmouk Camp
Ahmed Erdogan (UW), Resistance Resurrected: Political Spaces of Refugees in Turkey and in the EU
Panel Chair: Amaan Merali
Location: Allard 123
Fatima Afzal (UBC), Islam in the Vernacular: Creating a Muslim Lexicon in Late Colonial Punjab
Amina Ejaz (UVic), Repetition and Texts: Conceptual and Contemporary Islamic Pakistani Art and Calligraphy
Mahnoor Lone (UBC), The Allegorical Meaning and Experience of Beauty in Two Persianate Stories
Ambreen Hussaini (UVic), Bin Qalandar’s Mystical Pop Calligraphy
4:50–5:30pm Catered Reception in Allard Lobby