Call for Applications Arab American Studies Association Travel Stipend Support for graduate students, adjunct faculty, and independent researchers to participate in AASA-sponsored meetings. The Arab American Studies Association is accepting applications for travel stipends to attend the 2016 Middle East Studies Association (MESA) conference in Boston (November 17 – 20). AASA will award up…
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AASA member Martina Koegeler has recently published an article in the Journal of Transnational American Studies: “Performing Transnational Arab American Womanhood: Rosemary Hakim, US Orientalism, and Cold War Diplomacy.” The article explores the memoir and life of Rosemary Hakim, Miss Lebanon America 1955, and how she performs Arab American womanhood intersectionally and transnationally. The essay…
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AASA Board Member Professor Evelyn Alsultany has been nominated for the El-Hibri Foundation Peace Award for her incredible work in building Arab American studies. From the El-Hibri Foundation website: The following leaders were nominated for the 2016 El-Hibri Peace Education Prize ($30,000), for dedicating their lives to making outstanding contributions and demonstrating long-term leadership in building…
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AASA board member Umayyah Cable will join Northwestern University as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Asian American studies and Middle East and North African studies programs this fall. Her research and teaching interests span the fields of ethnic studies, film and media studies, and queer theory, with a particular focus on how marginalized or…
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Please join us in congratulating AASA member Waleed F. Mahdi on his new tenure-track assistant professor appointment at the University of Oklahoma in the Department of International and Area Studies and the Department of Modern Languages, Literature, and Linguistics. Waleed is a comparatist with research and teaching interests in US-Arab and Muslim cultural politics. His…
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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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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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Deadline: Thursday, July 14, 2016 at 5:00pm EST The Dr. Philip M. Kayal Fund for Arab American Research housed at the Center for Arab American Philanthropy announces the availability of funds supporting scholarly research on Arab American communities. Selection Criteria Preference will be given to research on Arab American communities within the social sciences, particularly…
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Forget Poles: Palestinians find a home in suburban Chicago AASA President Louise Cainkar was recently quoted in a Chicago area radio program on Chicago’s growing Palestinian community. Check out the full piece here, and read an excerpt below: How many people of Palestinian descent actually live in the region? The truth is more complicated, but…
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AASA President Louise Cainkar has a new article out via the Middle East Research and Information Project. Check out this preview and see link below to subscribe and read the whole piece. Becoming Arab American by Louise Cainkar published in MER278 Scholars have long found that while pan-Arab organizations in the United States called themselves…
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