Cities of the Arab World: Theory, Investigation and Critique

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1 AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE Cities of the Arab World: Theory, Investigation and Critique February 14-15, 2019 MSU Union, Lake Huron Room HOSTED BY: Global Urban Studies Program Cities of the Arab World: Theory, Investigation and Critique 1

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3 Keynote Speakers Harvey Molotch Emeritus Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis and Sociology, New York Harvey Molotch is well known for his research and writing on cities, including the book on city development, Urban Fortunes (co-authored with John Logan). Other writings have been concerned with architecture and industrial design, local and national security, racial segregation, mass media, and public toilets. His most recent project is resulting in the edited book (with Davide Ponzini), The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress. He is Emeritus Professor NYU and UCSB, with prior appointments as Centennial Professor, London School of Economics and Visiting professorships at Lund, Northwestern, and Essex universities. Mona Fawaz Professor of Architecture and Design, Faculty of Engineering and Design, American of Beirut Mona Fawaz is Professor in Urban Studies and Planning, the Coordinator of the Masters Program in Urban Planning, Policy and Design, and Director of the Social Justice and the City Research Program at the Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy at the American of Beirut. Professor Fawaz s scholarly interests reflect the imperative to make cities more inclusive. Her research spans across urban history and historiography, social and spatial justice, informality and the law, property and space, as well as planning practice, theory and pedagogy. She is the author of over 40 scholarly articles, book sections, and reports in Arabic, French and English and has edited several collections of essays on these issues. In addition, in her capacity as a public intellectual, Dr. Fawaz is deeply involved in professional and public debates concerning Beirut s contemporary transformations, and she advocates for upgrading informal settlements, protecting the urban commons, improving livability, adopting inclusive planning standards, and defending the right to the city. Cities of the Arab World: Theory, Investigation and Critique 1

4 Program Thursday, February 14, :00-9:15 am OPENING Rachel Croson, Dean, College of Social Science and MSU Foundation Professor of Economics Igor Vojnovic, Interim Director and Professor, Global Urban Studies Program Najib Hourani, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Urban Studies Program 9:15-10:45 am PANEL I PROJECTS Chair: Camelia Suleiman, Arabic Language Program, Michigan State 10:45-11:00 am BREAK Mega-event Planning in the Arab World: A Case Study of Dubai s 2020 World Exposition Eva Kassens-Noor and Linda Nubani, Urban Planning, Global Urban Studies, Michigan State Kuwait s New Urbanism: Palace Projects and the Erosion of the Public Farah al-nakib, History, California Polytechnic State Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi Gökçe Günel, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, of Arizona 11 am - 12 pm KEYNOTE PRESENTATION 12:00-1:00 pm LUNCH Extreme but not Exceptional: Gulf Cities as Harbingers of Urban Futures Harvey Molotch, Professor Emeritus, Sociology, New York and of California, Santa Barbara 1:00-2:45 pm PANEL II COMMUNITIES Chair: Salah Hassan, English, Michigan State Women, Art and War Aseel Sawalha, Anthropology, Fordham 2 AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

5 Thursday, February 14, :00-2:45 pm We Don t Speak the Same Language as the Bureaucrats: The Maspero Triangle, Urban Redevelopment, and Alternative Models of Democracy in Post-2011 Cairo 2:45-3:00 pm BREAK Claire Panetta, Anthropology, City of New York An Arab-Jewish City at the Dawn of Empire: Oran, 1831 Joshua Schreier, History, Vassar College Water Sabils as Neighborly Practice in Cairo, Egypt Tessa Farmer, Middle East and South Asian Languages and Cultures, of Virginia 3:00-4:45 pm PANEL III POLICING AND EVASIONS Chair: Najib Hourani, Anthropology, Global Urban Studies, Michigan State Policing the Arab Carceral City Bruce Stanley, International Relations, Richmond American International in London Coloring the City: The Materiality of Street Art in Amman, Jordan Kyle Craig, Anthropology, Northwestern Mapping Amman: A 21st Century City Betty S. Anderson, History, Boston Interstitial Space and the Urban Landscape in Doha, Qatar Andrew Gardner, Anthropology, of Puget Sound 5:15 pm CONFERENCE DINNER 7:00 pm FILM SCREENING MSU Library, Green Room In the Last Days of the City (al-said, 2016) Followed by a discussion with MSU Film Maker Rola Nashef Presented in conjunction with the MSU Library Film Series Cities of the Arab World: Theory, Investigation and Critique 3

6 Program Friday, February 15, :00-10:45 am PANEL IV SUSTAINABILITIES Chair: Najib Hourani, Anthropology and Global Urban Studies, Michigan State 10:45-11:00 am BREAK Ecologies and Methodologies: Fashioning Hybrid Approaches to Climate Change in Middle Eastern Cities Laurie King, Anthropology, Georgetown A Framework for Measuring Urban Sustainability in Emerging Region: The City of Duhok as a Case Study Azad Hassan and Zeenat Kotval-Karamchandani, Planning, Design and Construction, Michigan State Confronting Scarcity: The Political Ecology of the Everyday Lives of Intermittent Domestic Water Supply in Palestinian Communities Stephen Gasteyer, Sociology, Michigan State Hydropolitics and Water Scarcity in Urban Jordan Rami Narte, Nordic Agency for Sustainable Impact, Stockholm, Sweden 11 am - 12 pm KEYNOTE PRESENTATION 12:00-1:00 pm LUNCH Urban Citizenship and the Politics of Presence in the Age of Forced Population Displacement Mona Fawaz, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Department of Architecture and Design, American of Beirut 1:00-2:45 pm PANEL V GLOBALITIES Chair: Edward L. Murphy, History, Global Urban Studies, Michigan State Prophetic Hoods: Detroit s Muslim Developers, Dreamers, and Entrepreneurs Sally Howell, History, Director of the Arab American Studies Program, of Michigan, Dearborn 4 AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

7 Friday, February 15, :00-2:45 pm Urban Fallaheen: Palestinian-American Rootedness and the City 2:45-3:00 pm BREAK Randa Serhan, Sociology, American Arab Space in Post-Colonial French Cité Chantal Tetreault, Anthropology, Michigan State From Beit Jala to Patronato: Transregional Identities and Culinary Connections Nicholas Bascuñan-Wiley, Sociology, Northwestern 3:00 4:45 pm PANEL VI RECONSTRUCTIONS Chair: Laurie King, Anthropology, Georgetown Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Neoliberal Urbanism in the Arab World Najib Hourani, Anthropology, Global Urban Studies, Michigan State Who Owns the Old City? The Right to Aleppo s Heritage for Residents of the Old vs New Districts Al-Hakam Shaar, The Aleppo Project, Central European Restitution, Redistribution, and the Right of Return Andy Clarno, Sociology, of Illinois at Chicago Images of Before/After in Beirut s Post-Civil War Construction Economy Hatem el-hibri, Film and Media Studies, George Mason Cities of the Arab World: Theory, Investigation and Critique 5

8 Sponsors Global Urban Studies Program Department of Anthropology College of Social Science Muslim Studies Program Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, of Michigan Additional sponsors School of Planning, Design and Construction Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies African Studies Center Center for Advanced Study of International Development Residential College in the Arts and Humanities Department of History Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities