2014 MESA (Washington, D.C.), November 22-24

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• Tribes in Yemen: The View from Within

--- "Poetry and Tribalism in Yemen"

Mohammed Sharafuddin

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--- "The future political role of Yemeni tribal sheikhs in light of the expected outcomes of the National Dialogue Conference"

Adil Mujahid Al Sharjabi

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--- "Tribalism in the Yemeni National Dialogue Conference"

Abdul Karim S. Alaug

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--- "Tribal Dynamics and Political Processes in Yemen"

Nadwa Aldawsari

 

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• Yemen's Cultural Crisis: Catastrophe or Opportunity?

--- "Bridging the Generation Gap to Protect Nature in Yemen: Conservation of Nature through Culture"

Mohammed Al-Duais

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--- "Cents and (Cultural) Sensibility: How Transnational Political Agendas Condition the Content of Contemporary Theater in Yemen"

Katherine Hennessey

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--- "It Looks Good on Paper: Conserving Zabid's Manuscripts and Intellectual History"

Anne Regourd

--- "Conserving Built Heritage and Landscapes in Yemen: Political and Cultural Considerations for Sustainability"

Stephen Steinbeiser and Abdullah Al-Hadhrami,

 

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• Making Yemen's Islamic History: Engineering, Monuments, Taxes and Stimulants 

 

--- "Written Versus Archaeological Evidence: The Example of Water and Wastewater in Medieval Zabid, Yemen"

Ingrid Hehmeyer

 

--- "Ideal and Pragmatic Tax Law in Medieval Zaydi Yemen"

Eirik Hovden

 

--- "A Cultural Heritage Text from Early Medieval South Arabia"

Daniel Mahoney

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--- "Coffee and Qat in Yemen: The historical and literary evidence for their introduction"

Daniel Varisco

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2013 MESA (New Orleans), October 10-13

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• What Does State Fragility Mean in the Yemeni Case?

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--- "The State Fragility Thesis and the Case of Yemen"

Kamilia Eriani

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--- "Conditions for State Building in Yemen: But What's the State in Yemen Anyway?"

Larissa Alles

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--- "Houthism and Houthaphobia in the Post-Saleh Yemeni State"

David Hollenberg

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--- "The Yemeni State in International Context"

Charles Schmitz 

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--- "Tribalism in Yemen: Social Capital Confronts Social Unrest" 

Najwa Adra 

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--- "From One War to Another? The Impact of Yemen's Political Crisis on Migrant Domestic Workers"

Marina de Regt

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• Mamluks and Rasulids: Why They Should Both Matter to Historians

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--- "The Yemeni Manuscript Tradition in Context: Materials, Texts and Decorations in Rasulid Times"

Arianna Dottone

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--- "The Effects of Rasulid and the Mamluk Rule Over the Resistant Central Highlands of Yemen"

Daniel Mahoney

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--- "Enter the Rasulids: the Dahlakis and Their Powerful Neighbors in the Red Sea"

Roxani Margariti

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--- "Heirs of the Ayyubids: The Formation of the Rasulid State in Yemen" 

Daniel Martin Varisco