Call for Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications Social Justice Initiative University of Illinois at Chicago The Social Justice Initiative (SJI) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship as part of the 2016-2017 Sawyer Seminar on “Geographies of Justice: A Scholarly and Public Dialogue Series about the Contested…
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Ethnic American Literatures and Cultural Productions The University of Oregon’s English Department, in collaboration with the Ethnic Studies Department, invites applications for a 2016-18 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Ethnic American Literatures and Cultural Productions. Applicants should have a demonstrated pedagogical and scholarly investment in the study of race and…
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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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The Board of the Arab American Studies Association (AASA) would like to invite interested current AASA members to run for election to fill two open positions on the AASA Board. One position is for a Member-at-Large, and one is for Secretary. The term for Member-at-Large is two years, and will run from November 2015 to…
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The Palestinian American Research Center is pleased to announce this year’s fellowship competitions, which offer excellent opportunities for scholars to do research on Palestine and for professors not familiar with Palestine to make their first visit there. Please see the detailed information and links to our website below. http://parc-us-pal.org Call for Applications PARC is pleased…
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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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Arab American studies scholar and creative writer Fedwa Malti-Douglas was recently honored at the White House and was granted a National Humanities Medal. Read the full University of California press release by clicking here. Excerpted below: Food activist Alice Waters, historian Vicki Lynn Ruiz and Arabic letters scholar Fedwa Malti-Douglas are among 10 recipients of…
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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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