2-0630 GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 18:00-19:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

Chair: Lindsey A Conklin (University of Chicago)

18:00

Intimate Nation: Sexuality, Nationalism and "the Education of Desires" In Cairo

Sarah French Brennan (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, TEACHERS COLLEGE)

18:15

"I'm Not a Lesbian": Embodiments and Constructions of Female Same-Sex Sexuality In Contemporary Cairo

Nadia L Dropkin ()

18:30

Father, Mother, Pimp, Whore: Iraqi Collaborators Reconstruct Gender and Sexuality In Exile

Madeline Campbell ()

18:45

Viewings for Women Only: The Creation of Homosocial Space Through Art Exhibitions In the Arab Gulf

Elizabeth Ann Harrington (EmcArts, Inc.)

19:00

Negotiating Personal Honor: Youth, Gender, and Marriage In Damascus & Amman

Lindsey A Conklin (University of Chicago)

19:15

And They Never Married: What the Story of a 13th Century Muslim Sheikh and a Coptic Orthodox Queen Means to Egyptians Today

Cassandra Chambliss (Indiana University)

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