Arabic History / Studies

The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 1 March 2021 to 8 March 2021. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Announce. See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.

Professor Deborah Starr, author of Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema, in conversation with Professor Yaron Shemer and Dr. Ariel Sheetrit. Register to attend this virtual event.

This course is produced by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture Education Programme, the Center for the Study of the Built Environment (CSBE), and the Edraak massive open online course portal. It provides an overview of the architectural evolution of the mosque from the birth of Islam to the present, with an emphasis on the past half a century.

Call for Chapters for inclusion in an edited volume on

“Social Histories of Disease, Medicine, and Healing
in the Modern Middle East & North Africa”

What can the study of disease, medicine, healing, and public health in the Middle East and North Africa since 1750 reveal about the region’s history?

Editors: Stephanie Anne Boyle, New York City College of Technology (CUNY) & Christopher S. Rose, independent scholar, Austin, TX. 

Dear colleagues, 

The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 15 February 2021 to 22 February 2021. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Announce. See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.

CONNECTING DISTANT WORLDS: THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR ARABIC PAPYROLOGY (ISAP) ONLINE CONFERENCE (ONLINE, 15-18 MARCH, 2021)

Permanent link: https://www.naher-osten.lmu.de/isap_online

From the films of Elia Suleiman to the cartoons of Ali Ferzat, humor and the absurd have long permeated the landscape of literary and cultural production across the Middle East and North Africa. Writers, artists, and intellectuals have employed an aesthetics of humor in a myriad of forms- from lampooning caricatures and songs, to a cinema of the absurd and satirical theater.

We are inviting contributions for a new book on the material and acoustic qualities of 'ordinary voices' in history, roughly from the 17th - 19th century, in any geographical area.

(Find the full call for papers here: Call for Papers: "Ordinary Oralities: Everyday Voices in History" | University of Helsinki )