MESA 2023 Pre-registration Deadline is September 29!
Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) invites applications for one (1) assistant, associate, or professor teaching faculty position in Middle Eastern History (open rank), with a focus on gender.
The Yale University Department of History seeks to make a tenure-track assistant professor appointment in the history of the nineteenth-century Middle East.
Our letter to Biden administration officials expressing our concern regarding the Memorandum of Understanding recently concluded between the United States and Israel concerning Israel’s admission to the U.S. Visa Waiver Program.
Kenyon College, a highly selective, nationally ranked liberal arts college in central Ohio, invites applications for a tenure-track position in Arabic at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning in July 2024.
Amherst College's Department of Political Science invites applications for a full-time, two-year visiting appointment in Middle Eastern politics at the rank of assistant, associate, or full professor, beginning on July 1, 2024.
CAF welcomes the recent news that Egyptian national, Patrick George Zaki has received a presidential pardon.
The Druze Studies Journal and the Druze Studies Project at the University of Kansas, will be holding a virtual interdisciplinary symposium, “Druze Studies- Past, Present, and Future,” on November 15-16, 2023.
The Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities, in partnership with Brill, is launching a journal in Islamic studies that uses modern research methods to deal with all issues related to the study of Islam, its civilization and its cultures throughout history.
We are pleased to share the call for papers for the 2024 Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, to be hosted April 18th-20th, 2024 in Lexington, Kentucky.
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music is an interdisciplinary center where scholars and artists engage in academic and creative work across a variety of fields at the intersection of religion and the arts.
Wesleyan University’s History Department invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in the history of the Middle East history to begin on July 1, 2024.
The Met is seeking an established and experienced scholar in the art and architecture of the Islamic world between 650-1250 C.E., with a good knowledge of Arabic as a language and of historical, literary, and documentary sources in Arabic, as well as a broad view of Arabic-speaking cultures and networks of exchange that includes the Western Mediterranean, parts of Africa and the wider Indian Ocean throughout history to the present.
The Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University is hiring a tenure-stream Assistant Professor in the position of Contemporary Islam.
The Fares Center at the Fletcher School at Tufts University plans to hold an international interdisciplinary conference on “The US in the Middle East, and the Middle East in the US,” April 18-19, 2024
The College of Education invites applications for an academic Assistant Professor of Practice career-track position in International Studies
Our letter to the King of Morocco and governing authorities protesting the ongoing harassment of and punitive measures against the prominent historian and human rights activist, Dr. Maati Monjib. Most recently, on 1 March 2023, he was suspended, without pay, from his position as professor of History at the Mohammed V University in Rabat. This is our fourth letter decrying the mistreatment of this scholar and activist.
Applications are open for scholars from around the world come to the Institute to pursue their research
MESA mourns the passing of University of Chicago Kanuni Süleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies in the Departments of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and History Cornell Fleischer.
MESA mourns the passing of former MESA President and MESA Bulletin Editor Jere L. Bacharach on April 9. 2023.
The Committee on Academic Freedom received a response to the 13 April letter expressing concern over the decision by San Francisco State University to open an investigation into Professor Mahiar Berooz's showing of an image of the Prophet Muhammad in his class.
Our letter expressing concern over the decision by San Francisco State University to open an investigation into Professor Mahiar Berooz's showing of an image of the Prophet Muhammad in his class.
This is an international call for an Anthology of poems in English or translated into English
Our letter to Iranian authorities to condemn the persistent and widespread attacks by poisoning at girls' schools and women's college dormitories and call for an impartial and transparent investigation into their origins and bring the perpetrators to justice. From the initial attacks in November 2022 until today, more than 7000 students from across the country have been impacted and a climate of fear and insecurity prevails.
Our letter to Saudi authorities protesting the ongoing incarceration of Prof. Awad al-Qarni, the well-known reformist cleric and legal scholar, as well as Dr. Salman al-Audah, Ali al-Omari and Hassan al-Maliki, and calling for their immediate release. We oppose, as well, the prosecutor's request that Prof. al-Qarni be sentenced to death.
Our letter to President Erdogan concerning his decision to close all universities to in-person instruction for the remainder of the year in order to house earthquake victims on the country’s campuses.