4th International Conference on Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa
Program Schedule
Day 3 - April 7
Panel 5: Shrines and Popular Religion
9:00 -10:30am
Session Chair: Said Ennahid, Al Akhawayn University, School of Humanities
and Social Sciences
| Rahim, Habibeh | The Paragon of Perfection: Images of Ali b. Abi Talib in Classical Persia |
| Pestchmann-Toumi, Waltraud and Prochàzka, Stephen |
Annual Festivals and Muslim Sanctuaries in a Bedouin Society of Southern Tunisia |
| Hoffman, Katherine | “God Help You, Men, Women are Better”: Heteroglossic Storytelling about Sidi Ben Yaqub, a Southwestern Moroccan Saint |
Coffee Break - 10:30 - 11:00
Resume Panel 5
11:00 -12:00 noon
| El Guennouni, Mfaddel | Al-Hakayah al-Sufiyah: al-‘Ibad al-Nafsiyah wa al-Ijtima’iyah, wa al-Siyasiyah wa al-Thaqafah |
| Prochàzka-Eisl,Gisela | Sanctuaries in Progress: On the Genesis and Change of Alawi Sacred Places in Southern Turkey |
Lunch - 12:00 noon -2:00 pm
Resume Panel 5
2:00 - 3:00 pm
Session Chair: Mustapha Hogga, Al Akhawayn University, School of Humanities
and Social Sciences
| Eric Ross | Adding a Layer: Functioning Muslim Shrines at Archeological Sites in Morocco |
| Ould el-Bara, Yahya | The Esoteric Incantation for Venomous Snakes by Mauritanian Marabouts and its Social Impact |
Coffee Break - 3:00 - 3:30 pm
Panel 6: Music
3:30 -6:00 pm
Session Chair: Walter Armbrust, Oxford University, St Antony's College
| George Kleuser | Immigrants in Europe and the Trans-culturation of an African-American Genre (Rap among Turkish and Moroccan immigrant youth) |
| Stapley, Kathryn | The State versus the People: Linguistic Differences in the Tunisian Maluf |
| Ennahid, Said | The Archeology of Space in Malhun Poetry: The Poems of Damlidj and Khatam as Examples |
| Boumedini, Belkasim | Le rai de la négligence locale à la reconnaissance internationale |
| Shoup, John | The Griot Tradition in Hassaniyyah Music: The Iggawin |