By Alejandra Val Cubero (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Ellen Perrault, Dean, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary

By Ibrahim G. Aoudé (University of Hawai‘i)

Chair: Thabit A. J. Abdullah (York University) Alda Benjamen (University of Dayton) – The Bazaar of Alqosh in the 19th–mid-20th Centuries Sara Farhan (University of North British Columbia) – Heroic Argot: Medico-Cultural Microhistory and the Technocratic Imaginary of an Iraqi Nahdawi Naz Yücel – (Independent Scholar) – Governing Property in Basra in the Late Ottoman Empire: […]

Chair : Nada Shabout (University of North Texas) Dina Ramadan (Bard College/Center for Curatorial Studies) – When Genocide Is Not Academic Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert (Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University) – “The Integrity of the Exhibit”: On Art, Censorship, and Palestine in America Rachel Winter (curator, art historian, author) – “Activism,” Academic Freedom, and […]

Chair : Valentina Sommella (University of Perugia) Michele Brunelli (University of Bergamo) – Between History and Prospects: Anglo-Iranian Relations between Propaganda and Geopolitical Opportunities Nicola Melis (University of Cagliari) – Echoes of Empire: Ottoman Legacies and the Struggle for Sovereignty in a Changing Imperial Landscape Christian Rossi (University of Cagliari) – British Foreign Politics beyond […]

Chair: Isaías Barreñada (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, OUISO) Yahia Zoubir (Fudan University Scholar, Shanghai) – Prevention of Western Sahara from Exercising the Right to Self-Determination: The Negative Game of Western Powers María López Belloso (Universidad de Deusto, San Sebastián, Basque Country) – Measuring Legal Entropy to Trace the Turning Point of Multilateralism: Insights from the Western […]

Chair: Musa Sroor (Birzeit University) Musa Sroor (Birzeit University) – The Problematic of the Sacred and the Material in the Relationship between the Ottoman Empire and the Waqf of Al-Aqsa Mosque Randi Deguilhem (CNRS, TELEMMe-MMSH, Aix-Marseille University) – Weaponizing Waqf: The French Mandate’s Agenda to Dismantle the Waqf Endowment System in Syria (1920–46) Ouddène Boughoufala […]

Chair : Norma M. Rantisi (Concordia University) Farbod Honarpisheh (Connecticut College) – From 1979, Parviz Kimiavi’s OK Mister: On the Comings and Goings of Oil Brokers, Orientalists, and Masses Rehab Nazzal (Dar Al-Kalima University) and Norma Rantisi (Concordia University) -Bulldozer Colonial Planning, Campicide and Resistance in the Northern West Bank Tayri Paz García Medina (Universidad […]

Chair : Sherzad Ahmed Ameen Al-Najjar (University of Salahaddin – Erbil) Joseph Sassoon (Georgetown University) – Iraq’s Three Wars Kamal Abdullah Hassan (University of Sulaimani) – The Future of the Iraqi Political System in Light of Regional Changes after 2023 Sherzad Ahmed Ameen Al-Najjar (University of Salahaddin – Erbil) – The Role of the Constitution […]

Chair: Terri Ginsberg (Rutgers University) Terri Ginsberg (Rutgers University) – Unspoken Zionism in Hollywood Films: Another Hermeneutics of Suspicion Chris Lippard (University of Utah) – Animals as Referents in some Documentary Accounts of Palestinian Exclusion Dareen Hussein (Ohio State University) -Infrastructures of Solidarity: Film Festivals, Movie Magazines, and the Palestinian Struggle Hadil Abuhmaid (Independent Scholar) […]