2013 CCAS Symposium Panel Three Currents of Connectivity: Ecology, Ideology, Interaction Chair: Fida Adely, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University Osama Abi-Mershed, Georgetown University The "Nuptial Bed": The Mediterranean in Saint-Simonian Imagination Illham Khuri-Makdisi, Northeastern University Fin de Siecle Anarchism in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa, 1870-1914 William Granara, Harvard University Contesting the Mediterranean as Homeland in French and Arabic Colonial North African Literature[s] Timothy Beach, Georgetown University The Mediterranean Valleys and the Waning of the Mediterranean: Case Study from Kinet Hoyuk