Conference Co-organizerEid Mohamed [email protected]
Assistant Professor of American Studies and Comparative Literature at the Comparative Literature Program, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies Eid Mohamed is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Comparative Literature at the Comparative Literature Program at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. Before joining the DI, Dr. Mohamed’s commitments to interdisciplinary and transnational approaches are reflected in his teaching record at a number of Canadian, U.S., and Arab institutions including, the University of Guelph, the university of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University, State University of New York in Binghamton, Qatar University and now at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.
Dr. Mohamed is currently leading three major international and multi-institutional research projects: De-Centering American Studies: Understanding America from Abroad analyzes of circuits, gaps and sites of resistance within the digital humanities by considering the rhetorical production and representation of “America” within the Middle Eastern world and its diaspora. Computational Study of Culture: Cultural Analytics for Modern Arab and Islamic Studies similarly harnesses cultural analytic approaches to digitize machine-readable Arabic-language texts from the 19th century to today; while Transcultural Identities: Solidaristic Action and Contemporary Arab Social Movements archives contemporary Arab print and digital media to analyze the interplay of politics, religion, and culture in shaping Arabs’ search for more stable governing models |
Conference Co-organizerRenée Worringer
[email protected] Associate Professor of History, University of Guelph Renee is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of History at the University of Guelph, where she has been teaching Islamic and Middle East history since 2007, including courses on early Islamic civilization, the Ottoman Empire (her field of research), and the modern Middle East. Renee completed her PhD at the University of Chicago and has held post-doc fellowships at Princeton University and the University of Minnesota. She taught Islamic and Middle East history at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia from 2003-2007, before taking up the position in Canada.
Renee’s most recent book is called “Ottomans Imagining Japan: East, Middle East, and on-Western Modernity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”, which deals with Ottoman views of modern Japan as a model for reform, modernization and development of a national identity. She is currently writing an Ottoman history textbook for University of Toronto Press, and has a new research project that deals with the images and attitudes towards wolves in Turkic, Mongolian and Islamic societies as they compare with Christian and other non-Christian views of wolves. Renee lives on a farm in Fergus, ON with her husband, 3 dogs, and 40 sheep. |
Conference Co-ordinatorAnne Vermeyden
[email protected] Postdoctoral Scholar in the History Department, University of Guelph Anne Vermeyden is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar in History at the University of Guelph and will begin as a Visiting Scholar at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies in February of 2018. Her current research centers on Arab cultural production and the role of dancers in enacting social, cultural and political change. Her work also centers on transnational Arab culture, experiences and identity.
She is looking forward to publication of her recently completed article, "The Reda Folkloric Dance Troupe and Egyptian State Support during the Nasser Period" in the upcoming December issue of the Dance Research Journal. She also currently in the process of transitioning her completed PhD, which focused on hybridity and uneven cultural exchange in the history of belly dance’s popularization in Toronto, Canada, into a book. Dr. Vermeyden has trained in numerous Middle Eastern folkloric dance styles since 2011 and is a professional belly dance instructor, performer, and the previous coordinator of the Najda Now Dabke Group. |