Kadalah, Mohammed (Santa Clara University)

[P6205] Navigating Online Worlds -- Presenter

Kafeety, Fadi (University of Houston / Center for Arab Studies)

[P6104] Black September in Jordan: Fifty Years On -- Presenter
[P6104] Black September in Jordan: Fifty Years On -- Organizer

Kahalzadeh, Hadi

[P5962] State and Societal Resilience and Vulnerability in Post-Revolutionary Iran: Between the Local and Transnational -- Presenter

Kahf, Mohja

[P6145] Women’s Agency in Music and Literature -- Presenter
[P5849] Trajectories of Syrian Culture in Retrospect -- Discussant

Kahlaoui, Tarek (South Mediterranean University)

[P5952] Ideology and Identity in Democratic Tunisia -- Presenter

Kahlenberg, Caroline

[P6128] Territoriality and Contested Borders -- Presenter

Kajjo, Sirwan

[P5845] The Syrian War: Legal and Political Aspects -- Presenter

Kalkan, Ibrahim Halil (AAT University of Science and Technology)

[P6172] Ottoman Legal Reforms -- Presenter

Kammarti, Bochra

[P6074] Political and Socio-Institutional Change in North Africa in the Aftermath of the 2011 Uprisings -- Presenter

Kamrava, Mehran (Georgetown University Qatar)

[R5959] Competing Paradigms for Gulf Security: Pressures, Proposals, and Lessons -- Presenter
[P6212] From Elections to Culture Wars: Politics in the Islamic Republic -- Presenter

Kanaaneh, Abed El Qadir (Tel-Aviv University)

[P6235] Revisiting the Politics of Secularism, Religion, and Resistance in Syria, Lebanon and the US -- Presenter

Kaplan, Michael (George Washington University)

[P6124] Navigating Refugee Life and Policy -- Presenter

Kaptan, Yesim (Kent State University)

[P6176] Ottoman Revival and Return in Turkey -- Presenter

Karabicak, Yusuf (McGill University)

[P6172] Ottoman Legal Reforms -- Presenter

Karam, Charlotte

[P5851] Mobilizing International Resources for Women's Empowerment -- Presenter

Kargar, Simin

[P6154] New Media, Old Tactics? Censorship and Political Expression in Iran, Egypt, and Turkey -- Presenter

Karim, Mariam

[P6205] Navigating Online Worlds -- Presenter

Karkour, Islam (University of New Hampshire)

[S6269] Responding to COVID-19 in the MENA Region: Insights on Education and Communication Challenges -- Presenter

Karpuzcu, Hakan (Princeton University)

[P6172] Ottoman Legal Reforms -- Presenter

Käser, Isabel (SOAS)

[P5863] "Every Slight Movement of the People": Women's Activism and Middle East Uprisings -- Presenter

Kashani-Sabet, Firoozeh (University of Pennsylvania)

[P6096] Global Currents in Modern Iranian History -- Presenter

Katz, Kimberly B. (Towson University)

[P5856] Organizing, Enduring, Empowering, and Sharing: Challenging Institutional Constructs in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey -- Discussant

Kaya, Mustafa (The University of Chicago)

[P6173] Kingship and Property -- Presenter

Kayaal, Tugce

[P6062] Queer Sights: Gender Expression in Visual Culture -- Presenter

Kayaalp, Ebru (Istanbul Sehir University)

[P6135] Futures and Futurism: Time Across the Middle East -- Presenter

Kazanbas, Esra

[P6223] Contending with Polarization in Contemporary Turkey -- Presenter

Kazemi, Ranin

[P5828] Social, Economic, and Political Histories of Recreational Drugs in the Middle East and North Africa (19th and 20th Centuries) -- Organizer
[P5828] Social, Economic, and Political Histories of Recreational Drugs in the Middle East and North Africa (19th and 20th Centuries) -- Presenter

Kemerli, Pinar (New York University)

[R5972] New Directions in Necropolitics -- Presenter

Kerborani, Bahadin (The University of Chicago)

[P6210] Ethnic Minorities and Sectarian Tensions -- Presenter

Ketsemanian, Varak (Princeton University)

[P5951] Pluralism and Representation in the Late Ottoman Empire -- Organizer
[P5951] Pluralism and Representation in the Late Ottoman Empire -- Presenter

Khaldi, Boutheina (American University of Sharjah)

[P5831] Decolonizing Arabic Studies II: Nativism, Identity, History -- Presenter

Khalifa, Nada (Columbia University)

[P5846] Theories and Histories of Language in the Nahda: A Multidisciplinary Conversation across History and Literature -- Organizer
[P5846] Theories and Histories of Language in the Nahda: A Multidisciplinary Conversation across History and Literature -- Presenter

Khamis, Sahar M. (University of Maryland, College Park)

[P5868] Intersections and Divergences of Gender Norms and 'Modernity' in the Arab Gulf States -- Presenter

Khannous, Touria (Louisiana State University)

[P6197] War/Violence: Literature and Film -- Presenter

Khater, Akram F. (North Carolina State University)

[C6244] Big Data and Mega Corpora in the Middle East Studies -- Presenter
[P5865] The Stories They Tell: Building Archives of Arab America -- Presenter

Khattab, Ahmed (Georgetown University)

[P6217] Long-Distance Nationalism -- Presenter

Khattab, Lara (Concordia University)

[P5913] Unfinished Revolutions? Political and Social Mobilisation in the Middle East and North Africa after the Uprisings -- Presenter

Kherigi, Intissar

[P5891] Decentralization and Local Governance in Tunisia -- Presenter

Khlebnikov, Alexey (Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod)

[P5838] Israel in the Middle East: New Challenges -- Presenter

Khorshid, Sara (University of Western Ontario)

[P6149] Complying with State Feminism -- Presenter

Khoury, Dina Rizk (George Washington University)

[S6260] MESA Presidential Panel: Middle East Studies and the Academy in the Time of Covid-19 -- Chair
[S6260] MESA Presidential Panel: Middle East Studies and the Academy in the Time of Covid-19 -- Organizer

Khoury, Nicole (University of California, Irvine)

[R5855] The Ultimate Silenced Speak: Women Activists and Scholars -- Presenter

Kian, Sohelia (UC Irvine)

[R5942] Sharing Best Practices and Innovative Strategies to Bring a Learner-Centered Approach to Persian Language Classrooms -- Organizer
[R5942] Sharing Best Practices and Innovative Strategies to Bring a Learner-Centered Approach to Persian Language Classrooms -- Presenter
[R5942] Sharing Best Practices and Innovative Strategies to Bring a Learner-Centered Approach to Persian Language Classrooms -- Discussant

Kikkawa, Takuro

[P6234] Securitization and Governance in the Arab World -- Presenter

Kilicaslan, Gulay (York University (Toronto))

[R5947] Decolonizing Kurdish Studies -- Presenter

Kimmel, Anna

[P6050] Encountering Power in (Post) Colonial Algerian Spaces -- Presenter
[P6206] Politics of Art: International Festivals and Prizes -- Chair

Kindawi, Ahmad

[P6210] Ethnic Minorities and Sectarian Tensions -- Presenter

Kinney, Drew (Tulane University)

[P5996] Military Sociology in the MENA Region: Toward a New Research Agenda -- Presenter

Kitlas, Peter (Princeton University)

[P5954] Political and Social Change in the Pre-Modern Islamic Maghrib -- Presenter

Kitroeff, Alexander (Haverford College)

[C5822] Between Egypt and the Egyptian Diaspora: The Changing Contours of Coptic Studies -- Presenter

Klein, Janet (University of Akron)

[R6065] Approaches and Sources in the study of Northern Iraq -- Presenter

Koehler-Derrick, Gabriel

[P5987] Past as Prelude? Historical Legacies and State Building Across the MENA Region -- Co-Author
[P5987] Past as Prelude? Historical Legacies and State Building Across the MENA Region -- Organizer

Koenig, Emily

[P6156] Gender Inequalities: Finances to Cafés -- Presenter

Koh, Choon Hwee (Yale University)

[P5830] Show Me the Money: New Histories of Capitalism in the Ottoman World -- Organizer
[P5830] Show Me the Money: New Histories of Capitalism in the Ottoman World -- Presenter
[R5826] Infrastructure Studies in the Middle East -- Presenter
[R5826] Infrastructure Studies in the Middle East -- Organizer

Kohlbry, Paul (Brown University)

[P5966] "Oh There You Go, Bringing Class Into It Again!": Deprovincializing the Agrarian Question in the Middle East -- Presenter

Koksal, Yonca (Koç University)

[P6151] Merchants of Ottoman Trade -- Presenter

Koontz, Joshua

[R6114] AQAP's resilience and its rivalry with ISIS in Yemen: Transformations and CT implications -- Presenter

Kosba, May (Graduate Theological Union)

[P6167] Nationalism and Race in the Middle East -- Presenter

Koseoglu, Talha

[P5875] Current Debates in Islamic Political Thought in Turkey: Conservatism, Progressivism, and Critical Modernism -- Presenter

Koslowski, Montana (George Washington University)

[P6215] Women's Activism and Disenfranchisement -- Presenter

Kotil, Bilal (Marmara University)

[P6229] Slavery, Islam, and Empire Across Time and Space -- Presenter

Koura, Fatima (Hudson County Community College)

[P6180] Contending with Islamophobia in the US -- Presenter

Kovner, Bella

[P5883] Unchilding in the Middle East and North Africa, Part 1 -- Presenter

Koyagi, Mikiya (University of Texas at Austin)

[P5870] Mobility and Borders: Bedouins, Travelers and Pilgrims in the Middle East, 1880-1945 -- Presenter

Kozhanov, Nikolay (Qatar University)

[P5917] Iran during World War II: 1941-1946 -- Presenter

Kraidy, Marwan M. (University of Pennsylvania)

[P5803] Arabic Radio Broadcasting in the Early Mid-20th Century -- Discussant

Krane, Jim (Rice University)

[P6000] The Heat is On: Climate Change in the Gulf -- Presenter

Krause, Dino (Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS))

[P5818] Comparisons between Transnational Jihad in the Middle East and South Asia -- Presenter

Krause, Wanda

[P5913] Unfinished Revolutions? Political and Social Mobilisation in the Middle East and North Africa after the Uprisings -- Presenter

Kraver, Stephanie (The University of Chicago)

[P6198] Kurdish Cultural Production and Political Responses -- Presenter

Krumm, Thomas

[P6176] Ottoman Revival and Return in Turkey -- Presenter

Kudsieh, Suha (Independent Scholar)

[S6256] Furthering Your Career and Research Through Grants and Fellowships -- Presenter
[P6241] Modernization Efforts of the Late Ottoman Empire -- Presenter

Kuiper, Matthew

[P6171] Conquest, Conversion, and Mongol Rule -- Presenter

Kulieva, Elvira (Hamad Bin Khalifa University)

[P6222] Sufism: Classical and Contemporary -- Presenter

Kurgan, Sarp

[P6188] Intellectuals of the Early Turkish Republic -- Presenter

Kurt, Huseyin (Northeastern University)

[P6164] Ottoman Governance in the Late 19th Century -- Presenter

Kurt, Mehmet (Yale University)

[R5947] Decolonizing Kurdish Studies -- Presenter

Kurtic, Ekin (Brandeis University)

[P6135] Futures and Futurism: Time Across the Middle East -- Presenter

Kuru, Ahmet T. (San Diego State University)

[R5806] Ahmet Kuru's "Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment" -- Organizer
[R5806] Ahmet Kuru's "Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment" -- Discussant

Kuru, Selim (University of Washington, Seattle)

[R6027] Read Ekrem Kocu's Istanbul Ansiklopedisi and its Archive -- Presenter
[R6027] Read Ekrem Kocu's Istanbul Ansiklopedisi and its Archive -- Discussant

Kurzman, Charles (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

[R5881] Can Revolutions be Written? Theoretical and Empirical Implications -- Discussant
[R5881] Can Revolutions be Written? Theoretical and Empirical Implications -- Chair
[C6244] Big Data and Mega Corpora in the Middle East Studies -- Organizer
[P5980] The Liberal Moment in the Middle East, 1919-23 -- Discussant
[P5980] The Liberal Moment in the Middle East, 1919-23 -- Chair

Kushkush, Isma'il

[R6102] When the Middle East is Black: A Roundtable on Race, Boundaries, and the Politics of Middle Eastern Studies -- Presenter
[P6167] Nationalism and Race in the Middle East -- Presenter

Kutuk-Kuris, Merve (Istanbul Sehir University)

[P5888] Religious Transformation in the Middle East - Spirituality, Religious Doubt, and Non-Religion -- Presenter

Kynn, Tyler (University of Memphis)

[P5982] The High Seas of Empire: Conflicts and Encounters across Ottoman Maritime Space -- Presenter

Kyriakides, Christopher (York University, Canada)

[P5893] The Right to the City in the Arab World: Arab Migrant and Refugee Communities -- Presenter