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AIYS at MESA
Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting
2006 - 2010

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AIYS sponsors two panels at each MESA annual meeting. AIYS also sponsors Yemeni films at MESA

Scholars wishing to propose a panel for AIYS sponsorship need to do so before submitting the panel proposal to MESA for consideration.  The annual deadline for submitting a panel proposal to AIYS for consideration by the AIYS Program Committee is February 1; the MESA deadline is February 15.

For more information about MESA and their annual meeting, please visit their website.

2010 MESA: San Diego, CA, November 18 - 21

  • Current Research on the History of Yemen​, Organized by Daniel Martin Varisco ​

    • "Private Libraries of Manuscripts in Zabid" Anne Regourd​

    • "Plowing through Dangling Diacriticals: The Reconstruction of al-Malik al-Ashraf's 13th Century Agricultural Treatise Milh al-Mahlaha" Daniel Martin Varisco​

    • "Land and Water Allocation Rights in the Wadi Zabid during Medieval Times: New Aspects from the Iskandariyya Madrasa" Ingrid Hehmeyer​

    • "Religious Legitimacy, Commercial Engagement, and Medical Diplomacy: Foreign Relations of the Qasimi Imamate during the 17th and 18th C." Nancy Um

    • "The Imam is Responsible for Me before God!: The Dimension of Protection (Dhimma) Granted by Imam Yahya to the Jews of Yemen" Kersten Hunefeld​

  • Perspectives on Yemen's Contemporary Crisis, Organized by Charles P. Schmitz​

    • "Patronage and Instability in Yemen" Sarah Phillips​

    • "Unpacking Patronage Politics" April L. Alley​

    • "Specifying Corruption in the Yemeni Context" Charles Schmitz​

    • "Zaydi Scholasticism in Contemporary Yemen" David B. Hollenberg​

    • "The Snake with a Thousand Heads: The Southern Movement and the New Political Culture in Yemen" Susanne A. Dahlgren​​

2009 MESA: Boston, MA, November 20 - 24

  • The Diversity of Yemeni Poetry, Organized by Daniel Martin Varisco and Chaired by Najwa Adra

    • "Making Scholars: Noble Science and Poetry in Early Twentieth Century Yemen" Lucine Taminian ​

    • "The Fourteenth Century Almanac Poem of 'Abd Allah ibn As'ad al-Yafi'i" Daniel Martin Varisco​

    • "Yemeni-Arabic, Hebrew, and Judeo-Arabic Poems as Historical Source: A Comparative Study" Yosef Tobi​

    • "Rhythm and/or Beat: Re-evaluating Arabic Prosody in Light of Mahri Poetry" Sam Liebhaber ​

    • "The Pasha's' Broken Verse: A Poetics of Alienation in Yemeni Qasidah" Flagg Miller​

    • "Oral Poetry, Women's Empowerment, and Literacy in Yemen" Najwa Adra​​

2007 MESA: Montreal, Canada, November 17 - 20

  • Revisiting al-Hamdani: New Perspectives on the Indigenous Language Communities of the South Arabian Periphery, Chaired by Gregory D. Johnson​

    • "Turning Ploughshares into Words: Dialectical Diversity in Yemeni Arabic" Daniel Martin Varisco​

    • "Reorienting Heritage: Poetic Exchanges between Soqotra and the Gulf" Nathalie Peutz (Princeton University)​

    • "Humayni Poetry in al-Mahra" Samuel Liebhaber​

2006 MESA: Boston, MA, November 19 - 21

  • Politics and Society and the Yemeni State, Organized by Robert D. Burrowes and Chaired by Michaelle Browers

    • "Unmet Need for Major Economic Reforms, Political Causes, and Economic and Political Effects: the Republic of Yemen, 1995-2006" Robert D. Burrowes​

    • "Fear of State Failure and Prospects of Regime Change in the Republic of Yemen (2006- )" Abdul-Ghani Al-Iryani​

    • "Yemen's Failing Efforts to Meet the Political and Economic Challenges of the New Millennium, 1995-2006" Floor Beuning ​

    • "Welfare and Modernity: Three Concepts for an 'Advanced Woman' in Aden" Susanne Dahlgren​

    • "Evaluation of Yemen State Efficacy within the Period of 1995-2005: Quantitative Analysis" Mohammed Al-Maitami

    • "Democratization and the Persistence of Authoritarianism in Yemen, 1994-2006"  Sarah Phillips ​

  • ​From Theory to Deed: Islamists in Yemen, Organized by Gregory D. Johnsen and Chaired by Thomas B. Stevenson

    • ​Discussant: Jillian Schwedler​

    • "Contests of Innovation: The Culture of Politics in Yemeni Reformist Movements" Flagg Miller ​

    • "The Salafis in Yemen and their Relationships with Saudi Arabia" Bernard Haykel ​

    • "Salafis and Science: The Life and Thought of Sheikh Abd al-Majid al-Zindani" Gregory D. Johnsen​

    • "High-Value Target: Countering Al Qa'ida in Yemen" Edmund J. Hull​

  • Putting Rasulid Yemen on the Historiographic Map,  Organized and Chaired by Daniel Martin Varisco 

    • Discussant: Li Guo 

    • "The "Milh al-Malaha" of al-Malik al-Ashraf 'Umar (d. 696/1296): Situating the Ur-Text of the Rasulid Agricultural Corpus" Daniel Martin Varisco ​

    • "High Stakes on the High Seas: Ships and Seamanship of the Rasulids and their Predecessors" Roxani Margariti

    • "Fifteenth Century Interlopers in the Red Sea" John Meloy

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