Families in Flight: Today’s International Refugee Crisis Thursday, October 13 | 4:15 PM Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA The Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University will host a panel discussion to explore topics of pressing global concern: refugees, forced migration, and internally displaced people. Panelists will focus on the Syrian refugee crisis,…
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Want to Vote in the AASA’s 2016 Election? Renew Membership! In order to vote in the upcoming AASA election for new board members, you must have a current 2016 membership. You can renew or purchase a 2016 membership by going here: 2018 Membership
Dear AASA Members, Election season is upon us in more ways than one. It is time for us to hold elections for the AASA Board of Directors. The Nominating Committee has put forward the below names for election, but we are eager for AASA Members to be able to nominate people as well.…
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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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The Ethnic Studies Department at Colorado State University invites applications for one 9-month tenure track position in Arab and Muslim American Studies. This is an Assistant Professor position and salary is commensurate with qualifications. The final result of this search will be only one hire. Starting date is August 16, 2017. Qualifications and Responsibilities:…
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Researchers at the Psychology department at Clark University are conducting an online study on Palestinians’ experiences of denial and acknowledgment of the Nakba in the world today. We are looking for Palestinians (18- years and older) living in the diaspora to participate in the study and write about their opinions on this important issue. The…
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Tenure-track faculty position in Muslims in America The College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities and the Religious Studies Program invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level in the study of Muslims/Islam in America to begin fall semester 2017 (08/28/2017). We seek intellectually ambitious candidates with interdisciplinary aptitude, poised to become leaders…
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IMPERFECT STRANGERS: AMERICANS, ARABS, AND U.S.-MIDDLE EAST RELATIONS IN THE 1970S Out now via Cornell University Press: In Imperfect Strangers, Salim Yaqub argues that the 1970s were a pivotal decade for U.S.-Arab relations, whether at the upper levels of diplomacy, in street-level interactions, or in the realm of the imagination. In those years, Americans and…
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Over the next 3 weeks (September 13 – October 4) you have the opportunity to win a $1500 roundtrip ticket to Lebanon AND help the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at NC State University, conduct research about the trends in giving and volunteering among Lebanese immigrants. The Khayrallah Center seeks to learn what motivates…
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Northwestern University is offering a Mellon residency to a refugee artist, mediamaker, writer, scholar, see below: Please see this unique opportunity from Northwestern University, and share it with any eligible applicants: Through a partnership with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the School of Communication at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL offers a nationally or internationally recognized…
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