Conference Program

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ALOHA!

Ibrahim Aoudé, Ph.D. (aoude@hawaii.edu) & Dany Doueiri, Ph.D. (ddoueiri@csusb.edu)
Conference Co-Chairs

THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2022

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm / Early check-in for conference
Location: Aston Waikiki Beach Hotel - 3rd Floor
One of the conference staff will be available to answer questions and give the conference registration package to presenters and participants. This is optional. Participants and presenters may opt to check-in on Friday morning at the University of Hawai'i.

FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 2022

7:30 am (sharp) / Complimentary Transportation to University of Hawai'i
Location: Aston Waikiki Beach Hotel - 1st Floor - By the valet parking area
Complimentary transportation will be provided from the hotel to the University of Hawai'i

8:00 am - 8:30 am / Check-in & Registration
Location: University of Hawai'i / Shidler Business Administration Building / A Tower / Ground Floor

8:30 am - 9:10 am / Traditional Hawai'ian Chant & Welcome Message
Prof. Ty Kawika P. Tengan, Chair, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Hawai'i (Chant)
Dr. Denise E. Konan, Dean, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawai'i (Welcome Message)
Prof. Ty Kawika P. Tengan, Chair, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Hawai'i (Welcome Message)
Prof. Dany Doueiri, Director, Center for the Study of Muslim and Arab Worlds, California State University
Honoring Prof. Fouad Moughrabi, Co-founding editor of Arab Studies Quarterly
Prof. Ibrahim Aoude, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Hawai'i (Opening Remarks)
Location: University of Hawai'i / Business Administration Building / Room A-102

9:10 am - 9:20 am / Stones without People and Other Poems by Adele Ne Jame
Location: University of Hawai'i / Business Administration Building / Room A-102

9:20 am - 9:30 / Short Break and Joining Panels

9:30 am - 10:45 am / Session 1
Panel 1 - Location: Room A-101
Chairing panel: Mahbuba Hammad

Khawla AboOthman: Characteristics of the three phases of Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry
Sahar Alshoubaki: American Palestinian Literature: Grounds for Joint Struggle and International Solidarity
Sumia Alkaisi: Emergent voice in Arabic and Arab-Anglophone literature: Hassan Blasim Stories: The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes and Berlin Truck

Panel 2 - Location: Room A-102
Chairing panel: Yasemin Dildar

Abida Younas: Narratives of Post-Arab Spring Literature: Towards Making Minor Literature (z)
Ghada Mourad: Examination of Omar Youssef Suleiman’s novel: The Last Syrian
Isis Nusair: Qalam Humra (Syrian TV Series) and the Body of War
Yasmeen Mekawy: Hope, Despair, and Nostalgia in Post-Revolutionary Media in Egypt

10:45 am - 11:00 am / Break

Complimentary drinks will be provided

11:00 am - 12:15 pm / Session 2

Panel 1 - Location: Room A-101

Group Presentation: Censorship and Disruptions: The Case of Palestinian Resistance Online
Chairing Session: Gregory Gondwe

Ahlam Muhtaseb
Naim Aburaddi
Rana Sharif

Panel 2 - Location Room A-102
Chairing Session: Dany Doueiri

Yasemin Dildar: The Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Women in Turkey: labor market outcomes, unpaid housework and domestic violence.
Gaby Semaan: The Role of FM Radio Stations in Creating a Space for Civil Public Discourse during and following the Years of Civil War in Lebanon
Mary Abowd: Atavism and Modernity in Time's Portrayal of the Arab World, 2001-2011

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm / Complimentary Lunch provided to registered participants and presenters + Featuring Award Winning Film:
"1948: Creation and Catastrophe"
(Producer and director, Prof. Ahlam Muhtaseb will be present for Questions and Answers)
Location for film preview - Tower E-201

1:15 pm - 2:15 pm / Keynote Speech
Location: Room A-102
Introducing Keynote Speaker: Ahlam Muhtaseb
Dean and Professor Emeritus Dr. Jamal Nassar: Palestine After the Crossroads

2:30 pm - 2:45 pm / Seven-minute scenic walk to College Hill

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm / Reception at College Hill

4:45 pm (sharp) / Complimentary Transportation to Hotel

SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 2022

7:50 am (Sharp) / Complimentary Transportation to University of Hawai'i
Location: Aston Waikiki Beach Hotel - 1st Floor - By the valet parking area
Complimentary transportation will be provided from the hotel to the University of Hawai'i

8:30 am - 10:00 am / Plenary
Location: Room A-102
Chairing session: Fouad Moughrabi

Ibrahim Aoudé: Challenging Zionism
Cynthia Franklin: BDS and Building Solidarity
Rabab Abdulhadi: Teaching Palestine: Producing Knowledge for Justice

10:00 am - 10:15 am / Break

10:15 am - 11:30 am / Session 1
Panel 1 - Location: Room A-101

Group Presentation (PART 1)
This is a double session that critically analyzes the pedagogical and intellectual implications of censoring Palestinian and other narratives of gender, justice, and resistance in a virtual open classroom
Chairing session: Ali Musleh

Title: “Deciphering and Defeating the Censorship of ‘Whose Narrative? Gender, Justice, and Resistance: A Conversation with Leila Khaled’” (Part 1)

Cynthia Franklin
Rabab Abdulhadi
Tomomi Kinukawa
Saliem Shehadeh

Panel 2 - Location: Room A-102
Chairing Panel: Dany Doueiri

Tayseer Abu Odeh: The Politics of al-milhat al-filastiniyya in Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Gaza Weddings(z)
Laila Shikaki: Afro-Arabs and Poetry: Safia Elhillo as a Case Study (z)
Ibrahim Abuelrob: A Translation Analysis of Sinan Antoon's Language in his Novel "The Corpse Washer", A Socio-Cultural and Ideological Construction (z)

11:30 am - 11:45 am / Break

Complimentary drinks will be provided

11:45 am - 1:00 pm / Session 2
Panel 1 - Location: Room A-101
Group Presentation (PART 2)
This is a double session that critically analyzes the pedagogical and intellectual implications of censoring Palestinian and other narratives of gender, justice, and resistance in a virtual open classroom
Chairing session: Gaby Semaan

Title: “Deciphering and Defeating the Censorship of ‘Whose Narrative? Gender, Justice, and Resistance: A Conversation with Leila Khaled’” (Part 2)

Rabab Abdulhadi
Tomomi Kinukawa
Alohalani Brown
‘Ihilani Lasconia
‘Ilima Long
Malia Hulleman
Maan Odeh

Panel 2 - Location: Room A-102
Chairing Panel: Liana Petranek

Waleed Mahdi: Yemeni conceptions of the United States through the visual power of political cartoonists
Fouad Moughrabi: Examination of shifts in American public opinion on the Southwest Asian and North African Region.

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm / Complimentary Lunch provided to registered participants and presenters
Island Connections TV Program: Palestine A Vision for Liberation (Interview with Ilan Pappe and Ramzy Baroud)
Location for film preview - Tower E-201

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm / Session 3
Panel 1 - Location: Room A-101
Chairing session: Ece Algan

Healoha Johnston & Reem Bassous: Nomadic and Shaped by the Land: Role of media and popular culture + Representations of gender, race and social class
Safea Altef: Transcultural Identity on social media: common characteristics faced by the Arabic-speaking population
Enaya Othman: Nationalism and Fashion: The Preservation, Transformation, and Politicization of Palestinian Dress

Panel 2 - Location: Room A-102
Chairing session: Manfred Steger

Ibrahim Aoude: U.S. Dominance, Decline, and the Role of West Asia in Global Politics
Seif Da'Na: Unmaking imperialist ventures in West Asia region: Rise of Sadatism, replacement of socialism with neo-liberalism, ideological invasion and mass indoctrination
Yousef Baker: The racialized roots and consequences of America’s invasion of Iraq

3:00 pm - 4:15 pm / Session 4
Panel 1 - Location: Room A-101
Chairing panel: Naim Aburradi

Nour Aladdin: Southwest Asia and North African Queer literature: Saleem Haddad’s Guapa and Hasan Namir’s God in Pink
Rhoda Kanaaneh: The Right Kind of Suffering: Gender, Sexuality and Arab Asylum Seekers in the United States
Noha Atef: Meanings of the Hijab in Egyptian Television Dramas, 2016–2021 (z)

Panel 2 - Location: Room A-102
Chairing panel: Cynthia Franklin

Ali Musleh: Troubling the Facts on the Ground: Meditations on War as Media
Sahar Khamis: (Re)Visiting “Cyberactivism” and Arab Resistance in the Diaspora: New Pros and Cons
Laila Mourad: Egyptian Sha'bi (popular) women singers: (re)envisioning women’s resistance, subjectivity, and collective cultural consciousness
Ece Algan: Media censorship in Turkey: Cultural policies and ideological underpinnings of political instrumentalization

4:15 pm - 4:30 pm / Concluding statements & Farewell
Location: Room A-102

4:45 pm (Sharp) / Complimentary transportation back to hotel

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Informal reception for hotel guests
Location: Aston Waikiki Beach Hotel - Coconut Room