IDS at MESA 2001 - IDS at MESA 1999
MESA - Middle East Studies Association

35th Annual Conference, November 17-20, 2001
San Francisco

Panel:
Identity or “Identity Crisis”: The Lebanese and Syrian Druze Community

Chair:
Samy Swayd, Religious Studies, San Diego State University (SDSU)

Discussants:
Abbas Abu Salih, History, Lebanese University; and Heidi Rutz, Islamic Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Papers:
1. The Structure of the Druze Power Elite in Lebanon
Hussam Timani, Islamic Studies, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) 

2. Mental Health, Mental Disorder, and Lebanese-Syrian Druze Identity
Nahla Hatoum, Illinois School of Professional Psychology 

3. The Role of Festivals in Identity Among American Lebanese Druzes
Randa B. Wahbe, English, Cypress College

4. The Subtle Revolution: "Stereo" and Syrian Druze Wedding Music
Kathleen Hood, Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

 

 

33th Annual Conference, November 19-22, 1999
Washington D.C.

Panel:
Druze Identity in Israel: Society, Politics, and Literature

Chair:
Samy Swayd, Religious Studies, San Diego State University (SDSU)


Discussant:
Lisa Hajjar, Anthropology, Morehouse College, Atlanta

Papers:
1. Communal Solidarity vs. National Loyalty
Samy S. Swayd, Religious Studies, San Diego State University (SDSU) 

2. The Druzes in Israel and the Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
Hussam Timani, Islamic Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 

3. Alternative Identities in Israel: Nayif Salim and Hussein Muhanna
Nezar Andary, Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

4. The Reshaping of Druze particularism in Israel
Kais Firro, Middle Eastern History, University of Haifa