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Morning Sessions • Room 105, Anthropology Building, 10 Sachem StreetLunch, Distinguished Lecture, and Afternoon Sessions • 2nd Floor, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue10th Anniversary Celebration Dinner • Caseus, 93 Whitney Avenue8:45 – 9:00 Welcome – Marcia C. Inhorn, Yale University9:00 – 10:30 Middle East Revolutions and Feminist Transgressions – Moderated by Zareena Grewal, Yale UniversityTahrir Square: Locating Sexual Violence in Egypt – Anne Marie Butler, University at Buffalo • Alternative Narratives of the Egyptian Uprising – Nancy Gallagher, University of California, Santa Barbara • Tahrir’s Temporalities: Reading Gender and Class in Mona Prince’s Ismi Thoura [Revolution is my Name] – Nada Ayad, University of Southern California • Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture – Smadar Lavie, University of California, Berkeley • Patriliny and Feminist Protest in the Middle East – Diane E. King, Ohio State University and University of Kentucky10:45 – 12:15 MENA Women’s Movements, Projects, and Activisms – Moderated by Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar, University of Nevada, Reno(Re)production of ‘Middle Eastern Women’ in Art and Academia: An Analysis of The Fertile Crescent Project – Nil Uzun, Rutgers University • Pious Muslim Women, Political Participation, and ‘the Third Sphere’: How Social Media Use Increases Pious Women’s Political Participation – Sarah Fischer, Marymount University • Shahidas: Muslim Women Re-Imagining Community Development Initiatives through an Islamic Peace-Building Paradigm – Sabah Firoz Uddin • The Performativity of Muslimness, Identity Formation, and Resistance: The Case of Sudanese Women – Ameena Alrasheed, University of Bahrain and United Nations Development Program • Is the ‘Global Sisterhood’ Making the FGM/C Change Happen? International Organizations, Transnational Feminism, and FGM/C Abandonment in African and Middle Eastern Contexts – Ellen Gruenbaum, Purdue University12:15 – 1:15 Lunch1:30 – 3:15 Distinguished LectureSondra HaleUniversity of California, Los AngelesThe New Middle East Insurrections, Transnational Feminisms, and Other Subversions of the Modernist Frame3:30 – 4:30 Challenging Gender Systems in the Gulf – Moderated by Narges Erami, Yale UniversityPost-Oil Technologies, Queer Futurities and the Emirati Indebted Subject – Noor Al-Qasimi, Exeter University • The Joys of Gender Segregation – Amy Newell, New York University • Attitudes toward Domestic Violence in Qatar: The Role of State Feminism, Wahabi Interpretations of Islam, and the Perception of Women as an Economic Threat – Lina Kassem, Qatar University4:45 – 6:00 Post-Arab Spring Moroccan Feminisms – Moderated by Jonathan Wyrtzen, Yale UniversityGender and Islam: From Hermeneutics to Decolonial Discourses – Ilyass Bouzghaia, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University • Strategies for Expanding Women’s Political Representation in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring: The Case of Morocco – Hanane Darhour, University of Ibn Zohr • Competing Frameworks: Moroccan Western-Leaning Muslim Feminists and Islamic Feminists Differ over Best Path to Moroccan Women’s Rights – Ginger Feather, University of Kansas • Moroccan Feminism: Legal Outcomes and Pending Challenges – Hakima Fassi Fihri, Université de Grenoble II and Université Internationale de Rabat • The Moroccan Spring in Retrospective: Women’s and Cultural Rights – Fatima Sadiqi, University of Fez and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona6:00 – 8:00 10th Anniversary Celebration DinnerAdmission is $50 per person and includes a lovely dinner buffet, as well as wine and beer pairings (and non-alcoholic drinks). Please mail a check made out to Yale University to:Journal of Middle East Women’s StudiesCouncil on Middle East StudiesYale UniversityP. O. Box 208206New Haven, CT 06520-8206The deadline for the 10th Anniversary Celebration Dinner registration and payment is February 24. The Distinguished Lecture and Research Workshop are open to all and free of charge, and no registration is necessary.This event is sponsored by the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, the Council on Middle East Studies, and the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. The Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies is the official publication of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies. For information, visit www.jmews.org.