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The new MESA Academic Freedom Initiative website offers datasets tracking threats to academic freedom in the U.S. and Canada. It also provides research and analysis of campus climate, academic freedom, and related policy changes at universities and colleges across North America since October 7, 2023.
The Department of African Diaspora Studies invites applications for a tenure-track appointment beginning Fall 2027.
The Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology (SEA) is seeking to recruit an Assistant or Associate Professor of Sociology.
The Department of Rhetoric invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Law, Politics, and Public Discourse.
The Department of Religious Studies invites applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies.
The editors invite abstract submissions to contribute to three Special Issues.
Al-Mujadilah invites Funding Applications for the 2026–2028 strategic theme.
The Arabic Studies Department is seeking a Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies for a two-year appointment (2026–2028).
The center invites advanced PhD candidates and early career scholars to attend their annual academic gathering.
The institution invites applications from highly qualified and experienced academic leaders for the position of Dean.
This primer provides an account of two recent federal prosecutions that may have implications for the risks related to campus speech, protest, and association. Both prosecutions use lawful expression and association as the connective tissue binding individuals into criminal conspiracy charges against the backdrop of National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7).
CAF's letter expressing grave and urgent concern about the sanctions the university threatens to impose on Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Associate Professor of Global and International Studies at UC Irvine.
CAF along with several European societies has issued a statement to Moroccan authorities regarding the persecution of historian Maâti Monjib.
The international conference invites papers on Women’s Education, Careers, and Social Change in the Russian and Ottoman Empires and Beyond.
AIMS invites applications for U.S. Director position.
The editorial team invite proposals for two additional chapters to be included in a forthcoming edited volume.
Our letter to Iranian authorities expressing concerns about the intensification of repression of Iranian students and condemning the recent execution of graduate student, Erfan Shakourzadeh.
Chapter abstracts are invited for a volume in Routledge's Ideas beyond Borders series.
Our letter expressing concern about the decision to suspend Professor Savneet Talwar, a member of the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), from teaching and subject her to multiple investigations on dubious grounds
The Department of Comparative Literature and the Program in Middle East/South Asia Studies invite applications for the newly established Bita Daryabari Endowment Postdoctoral Scholar/Lecturer position in Persian language and literature.
The graduate Program in Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) invites applications for a one-year Visiting Professorship in the Political Economy of the Middle East.
The group invites hosting offers for an event in 2027.
The Arab American Education Foundation Center for Arab Studies is accepting students at both the MA and PhD levels.
ACW invites applications for a publications Editor position.
The International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) invites submissions for its tenth congress, to be held in Leiden from 22 to 25 March 2027.