Announcements

The 2020-21 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program competition is now open!  A complete list of opportunities available in the region can be found in our Catalog of Awards. Highlights from the 34 awards offered in the Middle East and North Africa include: Featured Awards– Egypt: American University of Cairo– Jordan: All Disciplines – Qatar: All Disciplines – Morocco: All Disciplines   Multi-country Awards– Middle East and North Africa Regional…
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The Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) is happy to announce that its 2019 Book Award competition is open. Details can be found on the AMEWS website here:http://amews.org/amews-book-award/ Eligible books must have been published in 2018 and must be on a topic of relevance for women’s, gender, sexuality and feminist studies in the Middle…
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Call for Proposals Now Open for 6th Annual Travel Grant  2019 Evelyn Abdalah Menconi Travel Grant  Support for researchers to visit and use the collections at the Arab American National Museum’s Russell J. Ebeid Library & Resource Center  The Russell J. Ebeid Library & Resource Center at the Arab American National Museum is accepting applications…
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From the Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease (MCCFAD): 1st Annual Summer Data Immersion program Ann Arbor, Michigan: June 10-13, 2019 Applications are open for the 1st annual Summer Data Immersion program hosted by the Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease (MCCFAD), to be held June 10-13, 2019 at the University…
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Congratulations to Kristine Ajrouch, Professor of Sociology at Eastern Michigan University, on winning two new National Institute of Aging (NIA) and one Michigan Health Endowment Foundation (MHEF) funded projects on Arab Americans and Alzheimer’s disease. Learn more about each of these projects below: Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease (MCCFAD) Funded by the…
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New releases in Critical Arab American Studies from Syracuse University Press Breaking Broken English: Black-Arab Literary Solidarities and the Politics of Language Michelle Hartman Paper $34.95 Hardcover $70.00 Ebook available “Hartman deftly analyzes Arab American work with Black Studies as a critical lens, offering radical reading strategies that fundamentally shift how we understand Arab American…
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Greetings, Arab American Studies Association community, Are you making plans to attend the American Studies Association 2019 Annual Meeting in Honolulu? Are you part of a session that contributes to the field of Arab American Studies? The Board is soliciting proposals from you, our members, to have your session sponsored. As an organization affiliated with…
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Register now for a webinar on the Racial Identity Construction of Arab American College Students on January 30th via the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education (NCORE). This session will investigate the issues surrounding the U.S. Census categorization of Arab Americans as “White” We’re not White: Racial Identity Construction of Arab American…
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