AIYS at MESA
2006-2010
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2010 MESA (San Diego, CA.), November 18-21
• Current Research on the History of Yemen
Created 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
Created 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
MESA 2008 (Boston, MA), November 20-24
• The Diversity of Yemeni Poetry
Organized by Daniel Martin Varisco
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"
W. Flagg Miller
--- "Oral Poetry, Women's Empowerment, and Literacy in Yemen"
Najwa Adra
MESA 2007 (Montréal, 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
MESA 2006 (Boston, MA), November 19-21
• Politics and Society and the Yemeni State
Organized by Robert D. Burrowes
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
Chaired by Thomas B. Stevenson
Discussant: Jillian Schwedler
--- "Contests of Innovation: The Culture of Politics in Yemeni Reformist Movements"
W. 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 by Daniel Martin Varisco
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
