Arabic History / Studies

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The Digital Orientalist's 2023 conference on Sustainability in the DH will take place on June 3rd, 2023. This year, we bring together PhD candidates and scholars from 9 different research and educational institutions based in China, UK, Europe, Japan, and USA.

Place: Naples, Università l’Orientale di Napoli
Dates: 21-22 May 2024
Organizers: Roberto Tottoli, Michele Petrone, Oliver Salem

This annual exploratory and informal workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies for investigating history writing in Arabic in the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond in any period from the seventh century to the present. 

We are interested in papers that consider the practical and conceptual challenges of working on history writing in Arabic. Papers might elucidate the following sorts of questions: 

4^th  Graduate Colloquium in Middle Eastern and Ottoman Studies

Presentation by Prof Dr Yamina El Kirat El Allame, Mohamed V University, Morocco.

The German Historical Institutes in Paris and Rome will continue the online seminar series on "Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History" in the academic year 2023/2024. The call for papers is open until 1 June 2023 and addressed to scholars of all levels in all medieval disciplines. The aim is to create an international and interdisciplinary forum where diverse topics and methodological approaches can be presented and discussed.

Tunisian President Kais Saied’s 21 February remarks deploring “hordes of illegal migrants” as a threat to the country’s “Islamic and Arab” identity have unleashed new waves of violence against individuals racialized as Black and African in Tunisia. Is this moment indeed a rupture in the country’s post-independence policy of color-blindness and national unity?

Handbook of Arab Criminology