Institute for Palestine Studies Announces Prize Competition: The Ibrahim Dakkak Award for Outstanding Essay on Jerusalem will be awarded to an outstanding essay that addresses either contemporary or historical issues relating to Jerusalem. The winning submission will receive a prize of $1,000 and will be published in the Institute’s Jerusalem Quarterly. Essays submitted for consideration should be…
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Waypoints and Watersheds: Arab American Activism and Memories, a Conference Marking the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 War. Arab American Studies Association 2017 Conference March 24-26, 2017 Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI Several important Arab and Arab American institutions and associations were established in the immediate aftermath of the 1967 War. They variously sought…
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2017 Conference The Middle East and North African Migration Studies in a Time of Crisis The Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies will host an international conference—titled The Stakes of Middle East and North Africa Migration Studies—at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina, USA) on April 21 & 22, 2017. This conference will consider the…
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Call for Conference Papers: Rethinking Media Through the Middle East Organized by the Media Studies Program at the American University of Beirut and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences American University of Beirut January 12 & 13, 2017 Within the field of media studies, Middle Eastern media is often treated as a domain of…
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Call for Papers Mellon Emerging Scholars Conference “Creating Diverse and Inclusive Communities” Thanks to generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Queens College has undertaken a three-year project led by faculty and students to advance understanding and formulate plans of action that foster diversity and inclusion in urban communities and higher education. As part…
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Type: Call for Papers Date: May 10, 2016 Location: Qatar Subject Fields: Arabic History / Studies, Cultural History / Studies, Literature, Middle East History / Studies, Popular Culture Studies Transcultural Identity Constructions in a Changing Arab World Edited volume by Eid Mohamed and Ayman El-Desouky Introduction: The idea of this edited volume starts from the…
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TRAINING TO ENGAGED TRANSFORMATIVE RESEARCH: PROPOSAL WRITING AND RESEARCH DESIGN SEMINARS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES FOR JUNIOR FACULTY IN EGYPTIAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES FALL 2016 – SPRING 2018 ARAB FAMILIES WORKING GROUP http://arabfamilies.org Lead Presenter: Suad Joseph, University of California, Davis APPLICATION DEADLINE: August 15, 2016 DATE FIRST SEMINAR: October 13, 14, 15, 2016 LOCATION FIRST…
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2017 Conference The Middle East and North African Migration Studies in a Time of Crisis The Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies will host an international conference—titled The Stakes of Middle East and North Africa Migration Studies—at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina, USA) on April 21 & 22, 2017. This conference…
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International Workshop, 12 – 13 December 2016 Date: 12 – 13 December 2016 Venue: Orient-Institut Beirut This workshop aims at shedding light on the transnational dynamics in which Arab left-wing trends have been embedded, especially during the 1960-70s, the glorious period of left-wing revolutionary movements throughout the world, in one word: the Tri-Continent moment. The radical left…
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IJMES Special Issue: Forced Displacement and Refugees Guest editor Dawn Chatty with IJMES editors Akram Khater and Jeffrey Culang Forced migration has come to be the defining feature of the contemporary Middle East, a region that is both the source of and host to some of the largest forcibly displaced populations in the world. In…
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