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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The annual Khayrallah Prize recognizes the best artistic expression of the Lebanese Diaspora. Whether in visual art, written work, performance or electronic medium, the Khayrallah Prize identifies, awards and publicly honors those whose original work captures the experiences of Lebanese immigrants, their relationship to Lebanon and their new homes, and their communities and peregrinations. The winner will receive a monetary prize of $2500, and…
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Dr. Elizabeth Saylor was selected as the Khayrallah’ Center’s 2016-2017 post-doc fellow. A native New Yorker, Dr. Elizabeth Saylor received her B.A. in Comparative Literature and Society from Columbia University, where she studied Arabic, French, German, and Italian literatures. Elizabeth holds her Ph.D. in Arabic Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, where she had…
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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 Member Waleed Mahdi has a new article out now via Mashriq & Mahjar. “Post-Oriental Otherness: Hollywood’s Moral Geography of Arab Americans.” Mashriq and Mahjar: Journal of Middle East Migration Studies 3, no. 2 (2016), 35-61. Abstract: How do filmmakers in the United States play a role in perpetuating narratives of belonging to the American culture?…
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AASA Member Stanley L. Thangaraj has a new publication out: Asian American Sporting Cultures. Edited by Stanley I. Thangaraj, Constancio Arnaldo, and Christina B. Chin Foreword by J. Jack Halberstam Afterword by Lisa Lowe From the NYU Press Website: Asian American Sporting Cultures delves into the American sports arena to explore the long history of Asian…
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