MESA Advocacy Resource Center
MESA's Task Force has created a new advocacy resource center for our members to consult in response to the repression of rights on campuses across North America and beyond.
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Campus Climate Resources
MESA has created a new Campus Climate resource page for our members in response to academic freedom-related developments on campuses across North America and beyond.
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MESA, AAUP, and Knight Institute file lawsuit over Trump policy of arresting and threatening deportation for lawful speech
The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members who participate in pro-Palestinian protests and other protected First Amendment activities.
Trump’s Immigration Actions: What to Know Webinar
AAUP and MESA
The American Association of University Professors is organizing a webinar with a specialist in deportation law. This event is cosponsored by MESA.
Begins March 27, 2025
In Memoriam, Feroz Ahmad (1938-2025)
MESA mourns the passing of Feroz Ahmad, distinguished historian of the late Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, who died on February 20 in Istanbul.
CfP: Mainstreaming the Margins and Marginalizing the Mainstream in Contemporary Egyptian Culture
CEDEJ & American University in Cairo
The conference invites scholars and practitioners of contemporary Egyptian cultural production to submit paper proposals.
Death Time and the Politics of Queer Feminist Pedagogy, Study, and Knowledge Production
SOAS, University of London
The workshop organised by the Centre for Gender Studies invites abstract submissions
Organizing for Palestine in US Scholarly Associations Roundtable
Coalition For Action In Higher Ed (CAHE)
Join CAHE on Thursday 3 April, 6pm EST for a roundtable, featuring organizers of boycott, scholasticide, and genocide resolutions at leading scholarly associations from around the country.
Begins April 03, 2025
Call for Abstracts: Women, Algeria, Torture, Foucault: Advancing the Anticolonial Sociology of Marnia Lazreg
University of Kentucky
Abstract submissions are now open for the conference, which will be held at the CUNY Graduate Center and the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College in New York City on September 25 and 26, 2025.
Call for Papers: Intellectual and Discursive Battles over Palestine
University of Macedonia, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies
The conference invites submissions of abstracts on a wide range of issues related to Palestine and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Letter to the leadership of Columbia University urging it to reject the Trump administration’s ultimatum of 13 March 2025 and stand firm in defense of academic freedom & the university’s independence
Our letter expressing outrage about the letter dated 13 March 2025 that was sent to you by three Trump administration officials, and to urge you to respond in a principled and forceful manner to the unprecedented, unacceptable and extreme demands that it sets forth
Letter to the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture regarding its cancellation of a planned special journal issue on Palestine
Our letter expressing concern about the decision of the Board of Directors of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture to cancel a planned issue of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) focused on Palestine. We are equally disturbed by the board’s termination of JAE Interim Executive Editor McLain Clutter for protesting this decision.
CfP - Within and Beyond Islam. Stories and Engagement of Young Muslims in Italy
Occhialì – Rivista sul Mediterraneo islamico
This call for papers seeks to gather research focused on the young Muslim population in Italy, emphasizing their life stories and experiences related to both commitment and disengagement, within and beyond religious associations and places of worship.
A short course on Governing Diversity: Engaging with a Complex World
The Aga Khan University (International) in the United Kingdom
In collaboration with the Ismaili Centre and the Aga Khan Museum, The Aga Khan University is offering a face-to-face short course in Canada on Governing Diversity: Engaging with a Complex World.
Publications Manager, Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South
Northwestern University in Qatar
The Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South is inviting applications for the position of Publications Manager.
The Altaf S. Al Sabah Visiting Chair in Women and Societal Development Studies
The American University of Beirut
The Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies (SOAM) invites applications for the Altaf S. Al Sabah Visiting Chair in Women and Societal Development Studies.
Advisory on Recent Trump Administration Policies & Media Reports of Pending Policies
Recommendations regarding recent and ongoing travel restrictions by Trump Administration.
Instructional Professor (open rank) - Modern Hebrew
University of Chicago
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies invites applications for a position as Instructional Professor (open rank) in modern Hebrew language
Virtual Open House
MA in Middle eatsern Studies/MEMEAC, the Graduate Center, CUNY
Begins March 15, 2025
Letter to NY Governor Hochul and leaders of the City University of New York regarding the Palestinian Studies position at Hunter College
Our letter expressing grave concern about Governor Hochul’s unprecedented demand that Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) take down a posted advertisement for a new open-rank position in the field of Palestinian Studies
Visiting Assistant in History of the Mediterranean World
Hampden-Sydney College
The Department of History invites applications for a one-year visiting assistant professor in the history of the Mediterranean World.
Letter protesting the ongoing unjust incarceration of Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali
Our tenth letter to express our outrage and deep concern, and demand the release from prison of the dual national (Iranian-Swedish) Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali who has been detained on false charges for nine years and condemned to death on the basis of a forced confession.
Early Scholars Publication Grants
UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures
The UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures invites dissertations that reconceptualize translating cultures in the digital age.
Translating Cultures and Artificial Intelligence
UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures
This call for papers is specifically focused on one of the emerging technê of translation, inviting submissions that explore the role of AI in translating cultures.