Tourism papers at MESA 2023

[Waleed Hazbun]

 Dear all,

There are quite a number of interesting papers to be presented at MESA 2023 that address tourism (or at least mention it in their abstract). I look forward to catch as many as I can. Hope to see you some of you in Montreal. 

-Waleed

Modernity, Identity, and the Architecture of Postcolonial Tourism in Downtown Tunis (By Dr. Daniel Coslett)

 

Between Renewal and Extraction: Ghiwanien Methodologies in Moroccan Heritage Pop (By Ms. Kendra Salois)

 

Promising Baalbek: Tourism, Development & Anxieties in the Town of Baalbek, 1943-1975 (By Ms. Idun Hauge)

 

Iraqi Antiquities and Tourism Development, 1921-1932 (By Laith Shakir)

 

Tourism in Tunisia after Fifty Years of French Occupation: French Colonial Capitalism in Interwar Tunisia (By Juan Ramirez)

 

Neoliberal Tourism: Difference, Desire and Dispossession in Revolutionary Cairo (By Dr. Elisa Wynne-Hughes)

 

Egypt in Palestine: National Participation at the 1933-34 Arab Exhibitions in Jerusalem (By Nadine Nour el Din)

 

An Ethnography of Social Transformation in Saudi Arabia (By Philippe Thalmann)

 

“Whatever We Are Doing Here in Oman Goes Back to the Family”: Spatial Practices and Situational Identity of Young Urban Omani in Muscat (By Lara Christmann)

 

Engendering the Tunisian Beach Vacation (By Dr. Claire T. Oueslati-Porter)

 

The Political Economy of Hosting Major Sports Events in the GCC: the Case of Qatar and the 2022 FIFA World Cup (By Suzanne Morrison)

 

In Words and Deeds: Agatha Christie, Artifacts, and the 20th Century Middle East (By Maysan Haydar)

 

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