Check out AASA Member Stanley Thangarj’s blog post “Asian men on TV: Waiting for the (onscreen) kiss,” featured on From the Square: The NYU Press Blog. Excerpted below: Popular culture is one important realm where Asian Americans, along with other communities of color, negotiate and manage the representations of their communities. In particular, visibility in…
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Check out AASA Member Kenneth Habib’s 2013 Interview on Fairuz, featured on Afropop Worldwide. You can read the full text here, or listen below: Kenneth Habib is an Associate Professor in Ethnomusicology, Music Theory, and Music History at the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. He wrote his PhD dissertation on Fairuz, the…
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From the Palestinian Youth Movement: We invite you to join us for the PYM Summer School for Palestinian and Arab young peoples based in the US which will be hosted in Southern California from July 26th to August 2nd, 2015! Attached is a more detailed description of the Call for Applications for our Summer School. …
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AASA members have been busy publishing new academic work, bridging multiple fields of study, and fostering rich interdisciplinary scholarship. Please join us in celebrating AASA members Charlotte Karem Albrecht, Kennith Habib, and Stanley Thangaraj for their recent academic publications! The citations below are available via JSTOR. Albrecht, Charlotte Karem. “Narrating Arab American History: The Peddling…
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Dear AASA Members: Do you have news you would like to share with the association’s members and the broader public? Have you recently published an article, op-ed, or book? Have you recently been featured or interviewed in a news outlet? Or did you recently win a grant or fellowship? AASA wants to promote your recent…
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AASA board member Randa Kayyali recently published an article in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA) on Fair Trade and Palestine. Check out the article by clicking on this link.
Students and faculty from the University of Michigan’s Arab and Muslim American Studies program, including (AASA board member Evelyn Alsultany) were recently interviewed by the Huffington Post about discrimination on the UMich campus. Check out the full article by clicking this link.
Please join us in celebrating AASA Board member Professor Evelyn Alsultany as she’s been awarded the Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From the University of Michigan’s The University Record article: Seven faculty members who have shown dedication to developing cultural and ethnic diversity at the University of…
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AASA President Elect Louise Cainkar was featured on Radio Islam’s episode:”Kickstarting Arab American Heritage Month” on April 8, 2015. Check out the episode below! [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/200020785″]
Time to recognize the latest and greatest in Middle East studies! Seven awards to honor excellence in the field. Please share with students, colleagues, and listservs. You can’t win if you don’t enter. Albert Hourani Book Award. Nomination deadline: April 1, 2015 Nominations of non-fiction scholarly monographs based on original research published in English…
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