ISTANBUL WORKSHOP: January 29-30, 2004

ABSTRACTS
Kamran Asdar Ali, University of Texas, Austin
& Martina Rieker, American University in Cairo
We Are Still Here, We Never Went Away:
Urban Poverty Studies Another Look, Another Century

Betül Çelik, Sabanci University
Experiences and Representation of Kurdish Women in Istanbul

Zeynep Çelik, New Jersey Institute of Technology
The Modernity of the Bidonville (Algiers)

Alev Çinar, Bilkent University
Imagining the Nation, Making the City: Materialization of Modernity and Nationalism in Ankara

Kaveh Ehsani, Jomhur Research Association (Tehran)
Social Engineering and the Contradictions of Modernization in
Khuzestan’s Company Towns: A Look at Abadan and Masjed-Soleyman

Ibrahim Elnur, American University in Cairo
War, Flight, Destitution and New Urbanities in Khartoum

Mona Fawaz, American University in Beirut
The Rise and Fall of a New Class of Urban Dwellers: Land Developers in Hay El Sellom (Beirut)

Lilia Labidi, University of Tunis
Women's Poverty in the Arab City: Between Moral Emotions and the Abject

Mandana Limbert, Queens College, CUNY
Asphalt and Mud Brick: New Roads and Old Forts in an Omani Oasis Town

Ayse Saktanber, Middle East Technical University
Outdoor/Indoor? Urban woman goes to socialize: Local Governments, Gender
and the Reformulation of Islamic Neo-Liberalism through Leisurescapes

Özlem Sandikci & Altan Ilkucan, Bilkent University
Gentrification and Community: Constructing, Conquering and Contesting The Republic of Cihangir

Lisa Taraki, Birzeit University
Middle Class Urban Modernities on the Periphery of the Periphery (Ramallah)

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