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'Asr al-inhitat

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Submitted by Letizia Osti on Friday, March 7, 2014

Dear colleagues

Can you suggest introductory reading on post-classical Arabic literature, in Arabic (preferably) or French?

Thanks in advance and best wishes

Letizia Osti

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Symposium “Goitein in Perspective”

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Submitted by Letizia Osti on Friday, March 7, 2014
[on behalf of Sylvia Fuks Fried of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry]  The Tauber Institute at Brandeis University is pleased to announce  “Goitein in Perspective”An International SymposiumMonday, March 31, 2014 – Tuesday, April 1, 2014 Conveners: Jonathan Decter, Brandeis University and Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College Mandel Center for the Humanities, Room 303  Monday, March 31, 2014 9:30 am – 12:00 noon Introductory RemarksJonathan Decter, Brandeis University“Toward a Scholarly Biography of S.D. Goitein”   I.

Medical Translators at Work - Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin Translations in Dialogue

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Submitted by Lucia Raggetti on Friday, March 7, 2014

Dear All, 

it is  my pleasure to share with you the programme of the conference Medical Translators at Work, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin Translations in Dialogue, which will take place in Berlin (Humboldt Universität main building, Unter den Linden 6, room 3059) on the 20th and 21st of March. 

http://www.klassphil.hu-berlin.de/avh-professur/news/conference-medical-translators-2014/

all the best, 

Lucia Raggetti

Dr. Lucia Raggetti
c/o TOPOI
Hittorfstraße 18 [R 107]
14195 Berlin
Tel +49 (0)30 838.57278 
Fax +49 (0)30 838.53770

DEADLINE APPROACHING: ASMEA Research Grants

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Submitted by Emily Capp on Thursday, March 6, 2014
The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) is offering research grants of up to $2500 to qualified professors and students engaged in the study of the Middle East and Africa. The deadline for applications is MARCH 15, 2014. To stimulate new and diverse lines of discourse about the Middle East and Africa, ASMEA’s Research Grants program seeks to support research on topics that deserve greater attention. The topic areas and sub-topics are intended as a guide for participants in the program and constitute the types of subjects that ASMEA intends to support in this program.

Irmgard Coninx Prize Fellowship for Transregional Studies

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Submitted by Letizia Osti on Thursday, March 6, 2014
The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien and the Irmgard Coninx Foundation are pleased to announce the first Irmgard Coninx Prize Fellowship for Transregional Studies. The Prize consists of a research fellowship for up to 10 months in Berlin on a project that relates disciplinary and area-based knowledge in mutually beneficial ways. Application deadline is April 30, 2014. Please find the announcement below and via the following link:  http://www.forum-transregionale-studien.de/en/forum/fellows/irmgard-coninx-prize.html With best regards,Dr. Stefanie Rentsch
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