Arabic History / Studies

Event Overview: 

The past few years have witnessed the rise of new conflicts in the Middle East, such as the Syrian civil war, rise and (partial) fall of Daesh (The Islamic State), the breakdown of relations between Qatar and its Arab neighbors, the continuation of old ones (the Israeli-Palestinian one) the worsening of others (Iran and Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the U.S.), and the increasing involvement of Turkey in the region. In the background, there is continuing unrest in many regional states and the shadow of the Trump Administration.

Call for Papers and Panel Proposals for the Co-IRIS section at the

13th Pan-European Conference on International Relations
11–14 September 2019, University of Sofia, Bulgaria

Section 44: “The Unseen IR: Islam and the Study of the ‘International’“

The Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA), based at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) in Germany and the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) in Egypt, is pleased to announce its Call for Membership 2019. AGYA promotes research cooperation among outstanding early-career researchers from all disciplines who are affiliated with a research institution in Germany or any Arab country. The academy supports innovative interdisciplinary projects by its members in various fields of research, science policy and education.

Call for Supplementum – Archiv Orientalni

The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 4 February 2019 to 11 February 2019. 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.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION - February 24, 2019

START OF THE WEBINAR - March 01, 2019

This 7-week webinar serves as an introduction to the methodologies of and project designs for Islamic landscape archaeology, using an ongoing field project in the Jerusalem region. In an innovative form of instruction, the course will be taught “from the field”, making use of taped broadcasts caught by bodycam during excavation and survey.

CFP MESA 2019 (Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting - Nov. 14-17, New Orleans, LA): Intersections of Sufism and Law in the Maghreb and Mashreq

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