The third Nordic conference on Middle Eastern Studies:
Ethnic encounter and culture change
Joensuu, Finland, 19-22 June 1995

Conference Proceedings

The Mediterranean and beyond

• Maxime Rodinson, Paris: 'Cultural Encounters in the Mediterranean world'.
• Eva Evers Rosander, Copenhagen, 'Female Linkage in Morocco and Senegal'.

The Borderland

• Pekka Masonen, Tampere, 'The Trans-Saharan contacts and their influence in Western Africa before the 15th Century'.
• Dag Jørund Lønning, Bergen, 'Israeli ways of conceptualising the enemy and implications for Israeli-Palestinian grassroots dialogue'.
• Haseeb Shehadeh, Helsinki, 'The Hebrew of the Palestinian Arabs'.
• Tapani Harviainen, Helsinki, 'Signs of new life in Karaim communities'.
• Robert Landa, Moskva, 'Les musulmans dans l'histoire de la Russie'.
• Sadri Bensmaïl, Paris, 'La ville comme lieu du changement des pratiques et représentation idéologique. Dialogue et affrontement interculturels en Algérie'.
• Olga Frolova, St. Petersburg, About the ethnic name "Burdjan"in Arabic geographical works.

Western views on the Middle East

• Riina Isotalo, Tampere, 'Edward Westermarck and Hilma Granqvist in the field of Orientalist discourse in Finland'.
• Stig T. Rasmussen, København, 'An outline of the history of Orientalistics in Denmark since the Reformation and the collection of Oriental manuscripts in The Royal Library, Copenhagen'.
• Heikki Palva, Helsinki, 'Linguistic observations of the explorers of Arabia in the 19th century'.
• Kirsti Suolinna, Åbo, 'Abdessalam El-Baqqali as a key person and friend of Edward Westermarck'

The Arabs and foreignhood

• M'hammed Sabour, Joensuu, 'The North African intellectual diaspora in the Nordic countries. The socio-political factors of expatriation'.
• Ali Najib, Uppsala, 'North Africans in Sweden: Social and Geographical Aspects'.

Nation states and society

• Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Cairo: 'Management and mismanagement of diversity: The case of ethnic conflict and nation-building in the Arab World'.
• Nelli Kopola, Stockholm, 'Definitions of Algerian Women: Citizenship, Participation and Exclusion'.
• Øystein LaBianca, Andrews Univ., 'Indigenous hardiness structures and state formation in Jordan. Towards a history of Jordan's resident Arab population'.
• Hamdi A. Hassan, Stockholm, 'Imagining Territoriality in the Middle East: From a social to a cultural understanding of loyality'.
• Khaled Bayomi, Lund, 'Nahdah visions and political realities in the Arab East - the inevitable war!'

Islam in society

• Jonas Otterbeck & Philip Halldén, Lund, 'Al-Fatiha och de troende - om religiösa texters bruk och funktion'.
• Leif Stenberg, Lund,'The Islamization of science or the marginalization of Islam: The positions of Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Ziauddin Sardar'.
• Tuomo Melasuo, Tampere, 'Islam, Civil Society and Democracy in Algeria'.
• Farid Ikene, Tampere, 'Press Freedom in Algeria'.
• Abdel-Qader Yassine, Göteborg, 'Islamic Political Movements: Between Tradition and Modernity'.
• Aini Linjakumpu, Tampere, 'Islam On-line: Muslim women defined by the multicultural Internet community'.

Historical studies

• Abdelali Elamrani-Jamal, Paris, 'La vision de la culture venant des grecs chez quelques théologiens et philosophes de l'islam à l'âge classique'.
• Henrik Kaufmann Sørensen, København, 'Ibn Tufayl's Hayy ibn Yaqzan and the problem of authority in Medieval Islamic philosophy'.
• Faruk Abu-Chacra, Helsinki, ''Ukaz-marknaden utanför Mekka. Dess kulturella och religiösa betydelse under Profeten Muhammads tid'.
• Nicolai N. Dyakov, St. Petersbourg, 'Les confréries religieuses du Maghreb et du Caucase du nord comme facteur ethno-social à l'époque de l'expansion étrangère'.
• Knut S. Vikør, Bergen, 'The development of ijtihadand Islamic reform, 1750-1850'.

Contemporary history and economy

• Bjørn-Olav Utvik, Oslo, 'Ayatollah Khomeini - a Cromwell in our time?'
• Ahmed Jiyad, Bergen, 'The social balance sheet of privatization in the Arab countries'
• Kari Norkonmaa, Helsinki, 'The reconstruction of Lebanon'.

Arabic Literature & language

• Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, Helsinki, 'Winners and Losers: On the interpretation of some of al-Hamadhani's maqamas'.
• Tryggve Kronholm, Uppsala, 'A new Scandinavian History of Arabic Literature'.
• Helle Lykke Nielsen, Odense, 'Acquisition Order in Arabic as a Foreign Language - a Cognitive Approach'

Turkish communities in Turkey, Europe and Central Asia

• Harald Skogseid, Bodø, 'Dual ethnic identity in Turkey'.
• Erlend Hvoslef, Oslo, 'Tribalism and modernity in Kirgizia'.
• Daniel Winfree Papuga, Oslo, 'Turkish Troubadours: Poetry and music in ethnic and political borderlands'.

Water resources in the Middle East ­ historical, political and economic aspects

• Martin Hvidt, Odense, 'Current attempts to improve irrigation performance in Egypt'.
• Jens Dybro, Århus/Oman, 'Current attempts to improve irrigation performance in Oman. On traditional 'aflaj' water management and organization'.
• Susanna Myllylä, Tampere, 'Cairo - A Mega-City and Its Water Resources'.
• Lars Wåhlin, Stockholm, 'The family cistern: 3,000 years of household water collection in Jordan'.

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