Press release from MESA's Committee on Academic Freedom: "Committee on Academic Freedom Shines Light on Secretive Website that Defames Students; Offers Resource for College Leaders to Take Action
MESA seeks a new editor for the International Journal of Middle East Studies for a five-year term beginning July 1, 2019. Review of applications begins August 1, 2018.
Applications are invited for the 2018 Undergraduate Research Workshop to be held during the MESA 2018 meeting in San Antonio. Application Deadline: June 1, 2018.
MESA's Committee on Academic Freedom has issued a resource guide for college and university leaders on actions they can take to counteract a secretive, political organization called Canary Mission that uses its website to engage in defamatory attacks against college students and faculty who engage in advocacy for Palestinian rights and academic inquiry about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The IIE Scholar Rescue Fund provides fellowships to professors, researchers, and public intellectuals who face threats to their lives and careers in their home countries.
Call for conference chairs to organize panels for the 8th Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art to be held in Doha, November 7-9, 2019. Deadline: June 1, 2018.
Begins November 07, 2019
Rethinking the "Arab Spring" and Its Aftermath in the Maghreb, April 27-28, 2018, Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations.
Begins April 27, 2018
Job opening at Bryn Mawr College: Instructor or Lecturer in Middle Eastern History. Review begins April 23, 2018.
Opportunities for Scholars 2019-2020 at the Institute for Advanced Study. Application deadline: October 15, 2018.
1st International Conference on Social Responsibility of Educational Institutions in Developing Countries (ICSEDC), August 24-25, 2018.
Begins August 24, 2018
Job opening at UCLA: Librarian/Curator for Middle Eastern, Islamic, and Jewish Studies. Application Deadline: May 22, 2018.
Fourth Annual Conference of the Iranian Studies Initiative: Slavery and Sexual Labor in the Middle East and North Africa, October 19-20, 2018 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Submission Deadline: May 1, 2018.
Begins October 19, 2018
Letter to UAE authorities regarding the one-year anniversary of the detention of Ahmed Mansoor, an internationally-acclaimed human rights activist and recipient of the 2015 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, and drawing attention to the imprisonment of dozens of other academics, lawyers, opposition figures, and human rights activists in the UAE.
Conceptions and Configurations of the Arabic Literary Canon Workshop, June 17-21, 2019 at the Columbia University Global Center in Paris. Submission Deadline: June 18, 2018.
Begins June 17, 2019
Letter to Iranian authorities expressing concern regarding the sentencing of Professor Sadegh Zibakalam for his interview with Deutsche Welle Persian Service on the December 2017 protests in Iran.
The Matador Review seeks submissions for its Summer 2018 publication. Deadline: May 31, 2018.
Letter to PM Yıldırım concerning the Boğaziçi University students who were detained and arrested over their peaceful antiwar protests.
Job opening at University of Denver: Assistant Professor of African Studies.
Job opening at the University of Arizona: Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Professor of Persian Language. Review begins immediately and continues until filled.
April 24, 2018-Ancient Oman: Archaeological Digs and Historical Discoveries in the Sultanate of Oman. Presented by the Library of Congress and the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center.
Begins April 24, 2018
Job opening at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: Junior Professor (m/f) in “Geography of Social Media and Digital Cultures“. Application Deadline: May 1, 2018.
Job opening at Connecticut College: Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies. Review begins April 6, 2018.
May 7, 2018-Water in the Middle East and North Africa: A Nexus of Cooperation and Conflict. Conference at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Begins May 07, 2018
Seeking contributions to handbook on Teaching IR in the Arab World. American University of Beirut, Arab Council for the Social Sciences.