The Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) invites you to attend, Dignity Amidst The Refugee Crisis: A Report Back from the Ground in Greece Co-Sponsored by the Iraqi Transnational Collective LA/OC Chapter and the American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 6:30PM 631 S. Brookhurst Street, Suite 107 Anaheim, CA…
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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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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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Association for Middle East Anthropology Dissertation Award The Association for Middle East Anthropology (AMEA) Dissertation Award has been established to recognize and promote excellence in the field of Middle East anthropology. The AMEA Dissertation Award will be offered annually to a scholar within Middle East anthropology for a dissertation. Dissertations filed in 2015 will…
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Association for Middle East Anthropology Graduate Student Paper Prize Submissions due June 1, 2016 The Association for Middle East Anthropology (AMEA) Graduate Student Paper Prize has been established to recognize and promote excellence in the field of Middle East anthropology and to encourage academic engagement and excellence in this field among students at 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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AASA President Louise Cainkar was nominated to run for the MESA Nominating Committee. If you are a member of MESA, please consider casting a vote for Louise. She is in a position to raise the profile of Arab Americanist scholars within this larger organization. The deadline to vote is March 18th. http://mesana.org/elections/2016-nominating-committee-election.html
