Please join us for this engaging event organized by the Critical SWANA Diaspora Studies Section of the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) and the Arab American Studies Association (AASA). Participants must register and the registration link will remain active so long as there is space, so please register asap! The registration link can be…
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Critical Futures in Arab American Studies April 12-14, 2024Arab American National MuseumDearborn, MI Call For Papers
A message from the Arab American Studies Association secretary, Keith Feldman: Greetings, What a year. What a month. 2020 cannot come soon enough… It’s already time to start planning the Arab American Studies Association’s presence at the 2020 meeting of the American Studies Association. As you may know, the conference will be held in Baltimore…
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Check out this important article written by past AASA President, Louise Cainkar, published in Religion and Politics. “Yemenis are not a population well known to Americans, making it important to highlight the stories of the thousands denied family reunification immigrant visas and to contextualize their plight within their long history in the U.S.”
Please join us at the joint reception and book celebration at the annual Middle Eastern Studies Association meeting. We will be celebrating the contributions of Arab American Studies scholars Michelle Hartman and Camilla Pastor. See you Saturday, November 16 in New Orleans! See attached .pdf file for more.
The Arab American Studies Association invites panel and paper proposals for its 2020 triennial conference on the theme of the politics of refusal and impossibility, to be held at San Diego State University on April 3rd-5th, 2020. Drawing inspiration from our meeting in Southern California, the conference will attend to questions related to the im/permeability…
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In celebration of International Women’s Day, I am writing to share with you our launch of the Pioneers and Leaders HUB. The Hub was launched by the Women as Partners in Progress (WPP) Project, within the Gibran Chair for Values and Peace at the University of Maryland. It is a knowledge center about Arab women…
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US premiere of Scenes From 71* Years offers epic snapshot of Palestinian life under occupation Award-winning Palestinian-Irish playwright Hannah Khalil returns to Golden Thread Productions for her first full-length US production. Monday, March 4, San Francisco, CA — Golden Thread Productions, the first American theatre company devoted to plays from or about the Middle East,…
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The 2020-21 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program competition is now open! A complete list of opportunities available in the region can be found in our Catalog of Awards. Highlights from the 34 awards offered in the Middle East and North Africa include: Featured Awards– Egypt: American University of Cairo– Jordan: All Disciplines – Qatar: All Disciplines – Morocco: All Disciplines Multi-country Awards– Middle East and North Africa Regional…
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The Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) is happy to announce that its 2019 Book Award competition is open. Details can be found on the AMEWS website here:http://amews.org/amews-book-award/ Eligible books must have been published in 2018 and must be on a topic of relevance for women’s, gender, sexuality and feminist studies in the Middle…
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