Call for Papers for The Gender and Sexuality of Borders and Margins The Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies invites feminist scholars working in any discipline or interdisciplinary area in the interpretive social sciences and humanities to submit area-specific manuscripts on any topic related to the theme of The Gender and Sexuality of Borders and Margins. Manuscripts may address…
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Check out Terri Ginsberg’s latest post at Mondoweiss, “Valentino’s Ghost makes comeback after 4 years of suppression.” Excerpt: In the years since the first U.S. bombing of Iraq more than two decades ago, Arab Americans have been producing films that confront the negative portrayal of Arabs and Muslims in Hollywood…
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The University of Massachusetts Press is offering a 30% discount on AASA Member Susan Muaddi Darraj’s new book, A Curious Land, until December 31st. It is a collection of short stories which won the 2014 Grace Paley Award for Fiction. To place orders: Order online or by phone (800-537-5487). To receive a special 30% discount…
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New Book Wins AWP Grace Paley Award for Fiction; New from UMass Press The 2014 winner of the Grace Paley Award is A Curious Land, by Susan Muaddi Darraj. This short story collection about the inhabitants of a Palestinian West Bank village, Tel al-Hilou, spans generations and continents to explore ideas of memory, belonging, connection,…
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Call for Papers, March 1, 2016 Late Identity: Outlasting the premises of identity in critical ethnic studies For better or worse, identity has been a dominant preoccupation in ethnic studies, and persists in critical ethnic studies. However, identity is often used in ways that present significant theoretical, methodological, and political problems which – if unaddressed –…
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From Linda Jacobs: Dear fellow AASA Members: I am pleased to offer you a complimentary desk copy of my new book, Strangers in the West: The Syrian Colony of New York City, 1880-1900. It is the first ethnography of this important center of the Arab diaspora in America, and tells the story of its inhabitants, their origins,…
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AASA members are on a roll! Another exciting publication is out, this time from AASA member Nancy El Gendy. Congratulations, Nancy! Her article “Trickster Humour in Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home: Negotiating Arab American Muslim Female Sexuality” will be published in Women: a cultural review, vol. 27, no. 1, March 2016 (Open Forum issue).…
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AASA member Janice Terry’s newest book William Yale: Witness to Partition in the Middle East WW1–WW2 is out now via Rimalbooks Press. From the Rimalbooks website: Synopsis William Yale was born into the Anglo-American power elite in the late nineteenth century. After graduating from Yale University (founded by one of his forebears), he joined the…
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ASA member Michael Malek Najjar has a new book out from McFarland Press, titled Arab American Drama, Film and Performance: A Critical Study, 1908 to the Present. From the McFarland Press website: About the Book Beginning with early Arab American playwright, poet and novelist Kahlil Gibran and concluding with contemporary playwright Yussef El Guindi, this…
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AASA member Linda Jacobs new book, Strangers in the West: The Syrian Colony of New York City, 1880-1900, is now available from Kalimah Press. You can purchase a copy either on Amazon and or on the publisher’s website. The author will sign all books ordered directly from the publisher, and if anyone orders five or…
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