Arab Popular Culture and the Media
Organized by The Institute for Media Training and Research (TIMTAR)
& the Department of Communication Arts
April 20
4:00 – 6:00 Registration—Faculty Lounge
April 21
9:30 Openning—Gulbenkian Theater
10:45 Coffee Break
Sheikh Zayed Hall
11:00 Session 1—Irwin Conference Room
Moderator: Ralph Berenger
a) Popular TV Shows, Nostalgia and Political Correctness
Abeer Al Najjar. The American University of Sharjah
b) Youth-Generated Media, Notes on Arab Cultural Politics
Joe F. Khalil. The University of Southern Illinois
c) Popular Culture and Politics: Theoretical Considerations
Marwan Kraidy. The University of Pennsylvania
d) ‘Globalism, Regionalism and Problems of Cultural Security in the 21st Century" Alexander Fedorovski.
12:30 Session 2—Irwin Conference Room
Moderator: Abeer Ismail Al Najjar
a) Thinly Veiled. Michel Certeau and the Subversive Abaya
Michael Long College of the North Atlantic-Qatar and Byrad
Yyeland. Virginia Commonwealth University-Qatar
b) Arab Culture and the Popularization of Religion
Makram Khoury-Machool. Cambridge University
c) Islam Online Guides Husbands and Wives Towards Marital Bliss Via Popular Culture Mona Abdel Fadil. University of Oslo
1:30 Lunch – Cafeteria
2:30 Session 3—Irwin Conference Room
Moderator: Nabelah Haraty
a) Sunset Boulevard By Way of Wadi Shahrour: A Psychological Profile of Sabah Ahmad Oueini. Lebanese American University
b) Performing the Body; Haifa Wehbi in the Becoming
Zeina Meskaoui. Lebanese American University
c) The Brain Listeners
Marwan Fawzi. Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt
4:00 Session 4 —Irwin Conference Room
Moderator: Mahmoud Tarabay
a) Arab Hip Hop in an International Frame
Caroline Rooney. The University of Kent
b) Popular Music and Student Identity
Wael Khatib. Yarmouk University
c) Palestinian Hip Hop: Youth, Identity and Nation
Sunaina Maira & Magid Shihade. University of California-Davis, Lahore University of Management Sciences
6:00 A Student Production: Seven Little Jewish Children – Gulbenkian Theater
7:30 Bus Leaves Lower Gate for Off-Campus Dinner
April 22
9:30 Session 5A —LRC 21
Moderator: Ramez Maluf
a) Popularising Psychoanalysis: Representations of the Therapeutic in Arab
Literature Julia Borossa Middlesex University
b) Have Popular Arab Novels Displaced Conventions?
Afaf Bataineh. Zayed University
b) Bride and Gawwaz el Salonat: an Arab Bridget Jones Blogger Who Gives Voice to Female Every-day Narratives
Azzurra Meringolo University of Rome 3
9:30 Session 5B -–Irwin Conference Room
Moderator: Sunaina Maira
a) Akhasmak Ah, Assebak La - Arabs and Concepts of Globalization
Tarek Joseph Chemaly. Beirut/NTSC (Never Twice Same City)
b) Arab Popular Culture in University Outside the Arab World. A Canadian Viewpoint Daniela Firanescu, Dalhousie University
c) Arabs in the Media in Australia: News Values and Negative Coverage
Lauren Rosewarne, University of Melbourne
10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 Session 6 – Irwin Conference Room
Moderator: Derek Bouse
a) Fragments of Identity: Perceptions and Visual Popular Culture in the Arab Region Tina Sleiman. Zayed University, Dubai, UAE
b) The Changing Space of the Arab City: The Case of Dubai
Harris Breslow. American University of Sharjah
c) Claiming Back the Aesthetic Spectacle
Hala AbouTaleb. University of Jordan
12:15 Lunch
1:15 Session 7 – Irwin Conference Room
Moderator: Tarek Chemaly
a) New Information Technology as a Major Aspect of Arab Popular Culture
Mahboub Hashem. American University of Sharjah
b) Blogging and the Emergence of Civil Society in Bahrain
Magdalena Maria Karolak. New York Institute of Technology -
Bahrain Campus
c) Do-It-Yourself Politicotainment: Lebanese Bloggers in the Arab Hub
Gail Ramsay and Kristina Riegert, Södertörn University College
2:30 11:00 Session 8 —LRC 21
Moderator: Samira Shami
a) Palestinian Folklore Groups – Between National Representation and International Acknowledgement
Anna Schmidt. University of Berlin
b) Fueling the Palestinian Road (Block) Movie: An International Deployment of ‘The Popular’
Kay Dickinson. Goldsmiths College, University of London
c) The Challenges of Palestinian Film Production
Sabah Haider. Lebanese American University
7:00 Bus leaves for dinner
April 23
9:00 Session 10 –Irwin Conference Room
Moderator: Hiba Mikdashi
a) Arab Popular Culture in Advertising
Ilhem Allagui. American University of Sharjah
b) Born Freej: The Cultural Impact of an Animated Phenomenon in the UAE
Ralph Berenger. The American University of Sharjah
c) The Internet as Popular Culture
Ayman Itani Lebanese American University
10:00 Session 11A – LRC 21
Moderator: Hossein Shahidi
a) Use of English in Journalism and Arab Identity
Hissa Al Dahari. Zayed University
b) "Moving the Masses: A Comparison of Arabic and English Persuasive Appeals"
Don Love. American University of Sharjah
c) Language as a Marker of a Pluralistic Identity: The Case of Lebanon
Elie Wardini. University of Stockholm
11:20 Session 11B - Irwin Conference Room (in Arabic)
Moderator: Latif Zeitouni
a) Popular Arab Proverbs in Medicine and Health
Abdul Nasser Kaadan. Aleppo University
b) Arab Proverbs in the Mouasker Region of Algeria
Nebia Dadoua Hadria CRASC, Oran
c) The Rejection Song in the Arab Maghreb
Boumedini Belkacem Mouasker University
11:00 Coffee Break
11:20 Session 12A—Irwin Conference Room
Moderator: Ahmad Oueini
a) Exploring the Popularity of Turkish Soap Operas in the Arab World
Dima Issa. London School of Economics
b) Pushing Boundaries of Imagination: Arabs and the Bombay Cinema
JM Ilias. India-Arab Cultural Center, New Delhi
c) Dubbing into Arabic and the Popularization of Hollywood
Ramez Maluf Lebanese American University
1:00 Lunch - Cafeteria
2:00 Session 13A –LRC 21
Moderator: Elise Salem
a) Features of Online Love Stories in the Gulf
Nele Lenze. University of Oslo
b) Relationship Between Satellite TV and the Phone in Egypt
Iman Hamam. American University in Cairo
c) Pride vs. Prejudice-LGBT Cyber-networks and the Challenge of Gender Based Violence in the Middle East
Luisa Gandolfo. Institute for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies (IMEIS)
2:00 Session 13B –Irwin Conference Room
Moderator: Fadi Kallab
a) Classical Arab Singers in Turkey on Radio and Cinema
Murat Ozyildirim. mersin university
b) Mutual Influence in Arab and Turkish-Popular Music
Mehmet Mutlu Ozdemir. Sakarya University
c) Footsteps of Arabic Music in Orhan Gencebay’s Arabesk
Süleyman Cabir Ciplak, Istanbul Technical University
3:30 Session 14 – Irwin Conference Room
Moderator: Wafa Halawi
a) Migratory Identities in Contemporary Arab Cinema
Aurora Tellenbach. University of Gothenburg
b) Modernity in Early Egyptian Attitudes Towards the Cinema
Ifdal Elsaket. The University of Sydney, Australia
c) The Representation of Men and Masculinities in Egyptian Contemporary Cinema
Koen Van Eynde. Netherlands-Flemish Institute, Cairo
4:15 Coffee Break
4:30 Closing session
5:15-- Bus to Downtown tour
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