4-0425 OF PEOPLE AND THINGS: HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGIES OF LAW AND LANDED PROPERTY IN THE CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST

Friday, November 18, 2011: 10:15-12:00

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

Organizers: Nada R Moumtaz (Gradaute Center- CUNY) and Ceren Ozgul (Graduate Center- CUNY)

Chairs: Najib B. Hourani (Michigan State University)

Discussants: Najib B. Hourani (Michigan State University)

10:15

Disowning Women: Berber Custom, Islamic Law, and Conflicting Demands for Property Rights In French Colonial Morocco

Katherine E. Hoffman (Northwestern University)

10:30

When Things Become Persons: Charitable Foundations In Lebanon After French Mandate Legislation

Nada R Moumtaz (Gradaute Center- CUNY)

10:45

Ghosts In the Court?: Of Citizens, Fugitives, Absentees and “Abandoned” Land In Turkey

Ceren Ozgul (Graduate Center- CUNY)

11:00

Fabricating Independent Farmers: The Nuclear Family As Development Grid In Iraqi Land Settlement Laws, 1945-53

Sara Pursley (Graduate Center- CUNY)

11:15

Discussant

Najib B. Hourani (Michigan State University)

11:30

Discussant

11:45

Discussion

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