The Jadaliyya environment page editors are pleased to feature these panels and roundtables focused on environment and climate at the 2024 Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting (MESA). MESA 2024 will be held virtually from November 11–16.
We hope you will join us in attending these sessions, contributing to their discussions, and encouraging the ongoing growth of an interdisciplinary conversation on urgent environmental questions at MESA.
Please note that audience members must register in order to attend the conference.
Monday November 11
- Saghar Sadeghian -- Organizer, Presenter
- Owain Lawson -- Presenter
- Eric Lob -- Presenter
- Amit Sadan -- Organizer, Presenter
Linking Iraq and the Gulf: New Historical and Literary Perspectives
- Fahad Bishara -- Discussant, Chair
- Arbella Bet-Shlimon -- Organizer, Presenter
- Camille Cole -- Presenter
- Abdulrahman Alebrahim -- Presenter
- Adhraa A. Naser -- Presenter
Feminist Ecocriticism and Women's Art in the SWANA Region
- Jameel Haque -- Presenter, Chair
- Danielle Haque -- Organizer, Presenter
- Holiday Powers -- Presenter
- Damien Tissot -- Presenter
Tuesday November 12
- Kali Rubaii -- Presenter
- Lauren Baker -- Organizer, Presenter, Chair
- Khaoula Bengezi -- Organizer, Presenter
- Ekin Kurtic -- Presenter
Agri-Food Politics in Turkey: Defining the Alternative among Alternatives
- Nurcan Atalan-Helicke -- Presenter
- Caterina Scaramelli -- Presenter
- Burge Abiral -- Organizer, Presenter
- Atak Ayaz -- Organizer, Presenter
- M. Fatih Tatari -- Presenter
- Brian Silverstein -- Discussant
Knowledge Translated and Vernacularized: Science, Magic, and Philosophy in the Islamicate World
- Justin Stearns -- Discussant, Chair
- Thomas Benfey -- Presenter
- Ahmed Almaazmi -- Organizer, Presenter
- Cem Turkoz -- Presenter
- Genie Yoo -- Presenter
Wednesday November 13
Climate Justice in the Arab World: Resisting Colonialism, Extractivism, Occupation and Conflict
- Marwa Daoudy -- Organizer, Presenter, Chair
- Muna Dajani -- Presenter
- Zeinab Shuker -- Presenter
- Noor Ghazal Aswad -- Presenter
Thursday November 14
Frontiers of Resource Extraction in the Modern Middle East
- Guillemette Crouzet -- Organizer, Presenter
- Shira Pinhas -- Organizer, Presenter
- Dotan Halevy -- Presenter
Nature and the Non-human in Muslim Thought
- Richard McGregor -- Chair
- Jörg Matthias Determann -- Presenter
- Munia Hweidi -- Presenter
- Jens Schmitt -- Presenter
- Aysenur Cam -- Presenter
- Mustafa Diwan -- Presenter
Friday November 15
- Alex Schweig -- Chair
- Burcu Ozdemir -- Presenter
- Hiroshi Yasui -- Presenter
- Majdi Awad -- Presenter
Food Producers, Consumers, and Providers
- Fredrick Walter Lorenz -- Presenter, Chair
- Sultan Toprak Oker -- Presenter
- David Meza -- Presenter
- maia nichols -- Presenter
- Yusuke Kawamura -- Presenter