The AASA Board of Directors is pleased to announce a new feature of the AASA website: Arab American Studies Directory of Scholars. This directory is populated by scholars and researchers whose work aligns with the objectives of the Arab American Studies Association: “to stimulate academic research in Arab American Studies and advance the study of…
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AASA member Amria Jarmakani recently posted an article, “Wild Wild East,” at The New Inquiry, where she discusses her new book, An Imperialist Love Story, out now via NYU Press: America has never stopped repeating stories about cowboys and Indians, even when the frontier is somewhere else…(Read More…) Join us in congratulating Dr. Jarmakani and…
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Check out AASA member Amira Jarmakani’s new book, An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror, fresh off the press via New York University Press. From NYU Press: A curious figure stalks the pages of a distinct subset of mass-market romance novels, aptly called “desert romances.” Animalistic yet sensitive, dark and attractive,…
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The AASA is pleased to announce that member Mejdulene B. Shomali will join the department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as a Postdoctoral Fellow. From the UMBC Postdoctoral Fellows page: Mejdulene B. Shomali received her PhD in American Culture at the University of Michigan. She received her master’s…
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