Session 9
Friday (May 7):
1.30-3.00 PM EST
CHAIR
Laia Balcells
(Georgetown U, US)
PAPERS
Hanin Alsudais
(King Faisal Center, Saudi Arabia)
Tribal, Religious, and Nationalist Components of Saudi Identity
Nadia Eldemerdash
(U of Nevada Las Vegas, US)
Funding Democracy? The Impacts of Remittance Receipt
on Pro-Democracy Attitudes in the MENA Region
Atefeh Ramsari
(Bielefeld U, Germany)
atefeh.ramsari@uni-bielefeld.de
Exercising Incompatible Nation and State Boundaries
in the Borders of Nation-State
Rida Abu Rass
(Queen’s U, Canada)
The Fourth Phase of Palestinian Arab Politics in Israel
*co-authored with Oded Haklai (Queen’s U, Canada)
DISCUSSANT
Samer Anabtawi
(George Washington U, US)
PANEL N9
Nationalism in the Middle East
and North Africa