Inviting submissions to MESA 2020 in Washington, DC from October 10-13! Deadline for proposals is February 18, 2020.
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The Middle East Studies Association is seeking a part-time Washington, DC-based Program Manager to implement MESA’s Global Academy, a new interdisciplinary initiative to sustain essential research collaborations and knowledge production between MENA-based scholars and their counterparts outside the region.
The Middle East Studies Association seeks a part time research assistant for a project concerning abuse of public records acts and laws as a means of harassment and intimidation of scholars and administrators. The research assistant will primarily be collecting data on the filing of public record act requests concerning scholarship about the Middle East at public universities in the United States.
The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies invites applications for a research fellowship in the study of the Islamic world.
The Humanities Collegiate Division and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of the University of Chicago invites applications for appointment as Instructional Professor (open rank) in modern Arabic.
The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia (TRI) invites applications for a postdoctoral or more senior researcher related to the theme of the contemporary politics in the Arab world.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) invites applications for the 2020 round of the Public Scholars program, which supports the creation of well-researched nonfiction books in the humanities written for the broad public.
Bibliotheca Alexandrina and The Islamic Manuscript Association—have decided to extend the deadline for the submission of abstracts to 18:00 UTC on Friday, 31 January 2020.
In partnership with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Columbia Global Centers | Amman is now accepting applications for the second cohort of the Fellowship Program for Emerging Displaced Scholars (starting in Jan 2021). Eligible candidates are scholars working in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who have been forcibly uprooted from their home countries and respective academic institutions.
Concordia Language Villages Language Training Center invites applications for Instructors of Hebrew for an intensive isolated immersion course to take place from 24 April to 14 May, 2020.
Concordia Language Villages Language Training Center invites applications for Instructors of Arabic (Modern Standard, Levantine and/or Egyptian dialects) and/or Persian/Farsi for a series of intensive isolated immersion courses taking place during the 2019-20 academic year.
The directors of "Radio and Decolonization", a two-week NEH-funded summer seminar at the University of Denver for higher education faculty members, invite applications.
The University of Arizona (UA) located in Tucson, Arizona seeks a qualified applicant for the position of Assistant Professor of Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa, Tenure Track.
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University invites applications for a full-time position as Preceptor in Arabic language to begin July 1, 2020.
The Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, London, is delighted to invite you to the upcoming event "Mosques, the Congregation and Anglophone Islam" by Abdul-Azim Ahmed, Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK, on Wednesday 5 February 2020.
The Thirteenth International Conference invites proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, colloquia, focused discussions, innovation showcases, virtual posters, or virtual lightning talks.
The Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies (NC State University) will host an international conference—titled New Perspectives on Middle East Migrations —at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina, USA) on September 11 - 13, 2020.
The Department of and Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin are happy to announce the 9th Annual Graduate Student Conference, New Generations, formerly known as Jil Jadid.
The Department of Foreign Philologies and the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) invite applications for a permanent position as Professor (W 3) for Iranian Studies as of April 1st, 2021.
The College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas invites applications for the position of Department Chair, Art History.
Organizers of the Second Annual Workshop on Ibadi Manuscripts & Manuscript Cultures, "Ibadi Manuscripts in European and North American Libraries," are pleased to announce a call for participants.
Independent Scholar, Nicolas Tredell, is editing a volume on Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner for the Salem Press Critical Insights series and invites proposals for original essays that could be included.
Assyrian Studies Association announces its 2020 Symposium and call for papers.
The Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program (IYLEP) - Arabic is currently hiring experienced educators to lead a group of high school students on their U.S. exchange in summer 2020, conducted entirely in Arabic! The Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program (IYLEP) - Undergraduate is currently hiring experienced educators to lead a group of university level participants on their U.S. exchange in summer 2020!
The Department of Religion at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, seeks to hire a full-time non-tenure track one-year, non-renewable Lecturer in Islamic Studies for the academic year 2020-21.
The Gulf Research Center has announced the Call for Papers for the next Gulf Research Meeting (GRM), held annually at the University of Cambridge.