Symposium - Political exile and Arab migrations in Turkey

Welcome coffee

Introduction

Philippe Bourmaud, Director of the French Institute of Anatolian studies (IFEA) Yohanan Benhaïm, IFEA Nouran Gad, Mesopolhis-Sciences Po Aix Enrique Klaus, Côte d’Azur University

FIRST SESSION – Migrations from the Middle East and politics in Turkey: an historical perspective

Panel discussion : Philippe Bourmaud, IFEA Mostafa Minawi, Cornell University Arab-Ottoman elites and the Hamidian administration Yohanan Benhaïm, IFEA History, peoples and territory: the production of knowledge on the Middle East in Turkey during the 2000's Seda Altuğ, Boğaziçi University The new Turkish regionalism, Syrian migration and the new historical memory

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SECOND SESSION - Social trajectories, careers and politics in exile

Panel discussion : Franck Mermier, IRIS-CNRS Mariam Agha, Ibn Haldun University “The ones who walk away”: an ethnography of exiled Egyptian artists in Istanbul Elsayed Mahmoud Elsehamy, University of Manchester The hope for the exception: post-2013 Egyptian exiles and the politics of exceptional Turkish citizenship Nouran Gad, Mesopolhis-Sciences Po Aix Exiled Arab journalistes in Istanbul: an alternative path to political involvment? Léo Fourn, Mesopolhis From the revolution in Syria to exile: a focus on the trajectories of “citizen journalists”

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THIRD SESSION - Repression without borders

Panel discussion : Claire Beaugrand, IRISSO-CNRS Enrique Klaus, Côte d’Azur University Governing through extortion and queuing to get racketed: an ethnographic observation at the Syrian Consulate in Istanbul Mohammed Affan, Al Sharq Forum Authoritarian learning: Transnational measures adopted by the Egyptian regime to neutralize the exiled opposition

Diner with the participants

Welcome

FOURTH SESSION - Politicization, engagement, and memories

Panel discussion : Dilek Yankaya, Mesopolhis-Sciences Po Aix Omer Abdin, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Bilal Hisam, Hamburg University Migration experience and political memory: transformations among Egyptian migrants in Turkey Majd Abuamer, Arab Center for Research and Policy studies Palestinian youth migration from Gaza Strip to Turkey: From crossing to (un)stable existence Sherouk Muhamed Salah, University of Cologne The integration dilemma of the youth diaspora: how to understand the outcomes of Arab immigrant education in Turkey Mohammad Sharqawi, EHESS The Yemeni Community Association and the politicization of Yemenis in England

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FIFTH SESSION - Political organizations in exile

Panel discussion : Didem Danış, Galatasaray University Yara Nassar, Arab center for research and policy studies Hamas community in Turkey: neither migration nor exile? Saif Alislam Eid, Arab center for research and policy studies The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in Turkey after 2013: The formation, transformation, and the outcomes. Mustafa Aljabzi, University of Rouen Political activism for Yemenis in Turkey

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KEY-NOTE SPEECH

Stéphane Lacroix, CERI-Sciences Po Paris

CONFERENCE

Normalizing with yesterday’s adversaries: understanding Turkish Foreign Policy in the Middle-East Merve Özdemirkıran, Marmara University Galip Dalay, Istanbul Policy Center Birol Başkan, Middle East Institute