The fourth Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern studies
The Middle East in a Globalizing World
Oslo, 13-16 August 1998

Conference Proceedings

Keynote speakers:

• Hasan Hanafi, Cairo: 'The Middle East, in whose world?'
• Abduallahi An-Naim, Washington: 'The Middle East and Globalization'

Cultural and political identity in the era of globalization

• Simten Cosar, Istanbul: 'Globality and Modernity: Is There a Trade-Off? - Turkish Intellectuals in Perspective'
• Tone Danielsen, Oslo: 'Turistenes Syria: Hvordan det globale gjøres lokalt i Syria'.
• Rania Maktabi, Oslo: 'Tune in Religion, Turn on Pluralism, Drop out Citizenship? Membership and Political Participation in Jordan, Kuwait and Lebanon'.
• Roberta Micallef, Uppsala: 'Images of the Turk and other in the Turkish epics, myths and heoric tales'.
• Sarah Shields, University of North Carolina: 'Imaginary Communities: Assigning Nationalisms in Iraq and Syria'.
• Harald Skogseid, Bodø: 'The Kurdish Diaspora. Environment and construction of social identity in the Middle East and in Europe'.
• Maria Zennaro, Copenhagen: 'Contesting Youth: Crossing the National and Sectarian Divide in Ras Beirut, Lebanon'.
• Charlotta Zettervall, Lund: 'Trends in the Kurdish Nationalist Movements in the 1990s'.

Media revolution: The Middle East culturally globalized?

• Amr Hamzawy, Berlin: 'Processes Of Local Deconstruction Of Global Events, News, And Discursive Messages: Case Studies From Egypt'.
• Helle Lykke Nielsen, Odense: 'Arabisk grammatik på internettet'.
• Daniel Winfree Papuga, Oslo: 'The village in the city: Expressive media and traditionalisation processes in Turkey'.
• Mark Sedgwick, Cairo: 'Marginal Muslims in Cyberspace: The implications of the Web for Traditionalists, and of Traditionalists on the Web for Islam'.
• Orhan Tekelioglu, Ankara: 'An Inner History of Westernisation in Turkish Music'.
• Berit Thorbjørnsrud, Oslo: 'Battling Satan on the Internet. Embracing new technology while rejecting change'.

Towards a global vision of Islam: New formulations in the Diaspora

• Torsten Janson, Lund: 'Muslim Meaning Maintenance. Problematizations of Islamic value reconstruction in a globalized setting'.
• Jonas Otterbeck, Lund: 'The Middle East as a problem in the formulation of Islam for Muslim activists in Sweden'.
• Leif Stenberg, Lund: 'Islam, Knowledge and Epistemology: Contemporary expectations and imaginations on the ability of Islam'.

Socio-economic aspects of globalisation

• Ahmed Jiyad, Bergen: 'Human Development Paradigm under Globalisation Environment: The Arab Gulf'.
• Terje Tvedt, Bergen: 'British Nile policy'.
• Lars Wåhlin, Stockholm: 'Ancient, Local Solutions in a Globalising World'.
• Mosad Zineldin, Växjö: 'Globalisation and Economic Integration among Arab countries'.

Who is shaping the Middle East? Questions in regional politics

• Pinar Bilgin, Aberystwyth, Wales: 'Inventing Middle Easts? The Making of a Region Through Security Discourse'.
• Khaled A.M. Bayomi: 'The Construction of a Middle East Region and the Roots of the Modernity process in The Arab Homeland'.
• Gulshan Dietl, New Delhi: 'The Greater Middle East: Emergence of a New Region?'.
• Akram Hawas, Ålborg: 'The New Alliance; Turkey and Israel: Is it a Course towards a New Division of the Middle East?'
• Alhadi Khalaf, Lund: 'Contentious politics in Bahrain: From ethnic to national and vice versa'.
• Emile Sahliyeh, University of North Texas, Denton: 'The Limits of the State Power in the Middle East'.
• Francis O. Wilcox, University of Virginia: 'Towards Barcelona: The making and remaking of Euro-Maghrebi relations'.

Globalization: effects on gender relations

• Karin Ask, Bergen: 'Gender differentiated assistance during Islamisation. An analysis of the case of Afghanistan'.
• Susanne Dahlgren, Helsinki: 'Traditions and modernities in Aden (Yemen). On studying complex Middle Eastern societies'.
• Signe Gilen, Oslo: 'Utforming av kjønnsidentitet under den palestinske motstandskampen. En studie av kjønn og nasjonalisme'.
• Maryam Habibian, New York: 'Under Wraps on the Stage: Iranian Women in the Performing Arts in post-revolutionary Iran'.
• Kari Karamé, Oslo: 'Women, Work and Globalization'.
• Catharina Raudvere, Lund: 'Women and Globalization: possibilities and limitations'.
• Zeinab Shahin, Cairo: 'Globalization, the social fund for development in Egypt and gender relations'
• Jonas Svensson, Lund: 'Globalization and the "Islamization" of Women's Human Rights'.
• Thomas Michael Walle, Oslo: '"As good as a man can be": some thoughts on love, marriage and masculinity'.

Islamic law between the universal and the particular

• Anders Bjørkelo, Bergen: 'Islamic contracts in economic transactions in the Sudan'.
• Anh Nga Longva, Bergen: 'The apostasy law in the age of universal human rights and citizenship: Some legal and political implications'
• Ole Omvik, Bergen: 'Legal pluralism and conflict in Egypt, as seen from the Abu Zayd case'.
• Endre Stiansen, Uppsala: 'Islamic Banking in the Sudan: The Laws and the Debate'.
• Knut S. Vikør, Bergen: 'The Shari'a and the nation state: who can codify the divine law?'

Political Islam in changing environments

• Connie Carøe, Copenhagen: 'Islamic activism as self-practices in a postcolonial context'.
• Willy Egset, Oslo: 'Islamism and Multipartyism: The Muslim Brotherhood's Political Strategies under Mubarak'.
• Lars Haugom, Oslo: 'Towards secularisation? Developments in the Islamic Republic of Iran after Khomeini'.
• Ann-Kristin Jonasson, Göteborg: 'The Political Linkage of Islamist Parties - a preliminary study'.
• Bjørn Olav Utvik, Oslo: 'The Hizb al-Wasat story. New developments in Egyptian Islamism'.

Post-colonial politics in the Maghreb

• David Hogstad, Oslo: 'Global institutions and ideologies in Moroccan student politics: some real hermeneutic problems'.
• Kirsi Virtanen, Tampere: 'Decolonization as a globalizing impetus. Construction of Algerian national identity through the exclusion and inclusion of colonial experience'.

Issues in the Middle East peace process

• Tamara Awerbuch, Harvard et al: 'Ecological Continuum and Disease Transmission Across Political Borders between Israel and its Neighbors'.
• Jostein Brobakk, Trondheim: 'After the Cold War: Structural Changes and Israeli-Palestinian Rapprochement'.
• Jan Wilhelm Kavli, Oslo: 'Lebanon First - an Alternative in the Peace Process?'.
• Brynjar Lia, Oslo: 'International Aid and the Establishment of a Palestinian Police Force in the West Bank and Gaza Strip'.
• Joseph Nevo, Haifa: 'The Jordanian, Palestinian and the Jordanian-Palestinian Entities'.

Literary interaction with the West: past and present

• Bo Holmberg, Lund: 'Sulayman al-Bustani«s Arabic translation of the Iliad'.

Muslim Intellectuals: 20th Century Self-Images of Muslim Intellectuals

• Lene Kofoed Rasmussen, Copenhagen: 'Muslim woman and intellectual in 20th century Egyptian Public Debate'.
• Tetz Rooke, Stockholm: 'The Influence of Adab on the Muslim Intellectuals of the Nahda as Reflected in the Memoirs of Muhammad Kurd Ali (1876-1953)'.
• Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, Copenhagen: 'Portrait of the intellectual as a young man: Rashid Rida's Muhawarat al-muslih wa'l-muqallid (1906)'.