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The University of Southern California’s Department of Middle East Studies invites applications for a full-time, teaching-track instructor to teach beginning through advanced Arabic starting Fall 2025.
The Gulf Studies Symposium (GSS), co-hosted by Gulf International Forum and Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, welcome paper abstracts offering fresh insights and perspectives.
The Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant (or early Associate) faculty position, with appointment to begin September 1, 2025.
Elon University invites proposals for papers that address critical and innovative approaches to teaching Israel/Palestine today.
The Department of Political Science seeks to appoint a tenure-track assistant professor in Political Science whose work focuses on the region of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) is pleased to announce 2025-2026 fellowship programs for students and scholars based in the U.S. and Canada.
The Department of Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Binghamton University (SUNY) invites applications for the position of Lecturer of Arabic.
The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MELC) in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies (HLS) at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for a tenure-track position focused on the contemporary Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region at the rank of assistant professor, to begin in August 2025.
The Sixth Annual Gulf International Conference title “Pivotal Elections and Shifting Strategies: Aligning U.S. and Gulf State Priorities in an Evolving Global Landscape,” aims to foster dialogue, share insights, and explore strategies addressing the critical issues shaping U.S.-Gulf relations.
The Department of Political Science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) invites applications for a part-time instructor to teach two courses on Middle East politics during the Spring 2025 semester.
Arab Center Washington DC’s 9th Annual Conference will focus on discussing the 2024 presidential elections in the United States, assessing the state of US democracy, and exploring the impact of the results on US foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Women, Gender, and Families of Color seek papers to expand a “Care and Well-Being Toolkit” for communities of color in higher education.
The Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema is seeking proposals for new books that explore a range of topics and approaches to Arab cinema.
VMI seeks a tenure-track assistant professor with expertise in the history of the Middle East and/or North Africa.
The Middle East Politics track welcomes proposals for panels and papers, in any subfield of Politics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)/West Asia and North Africa (WANA). In line with the 2025 World Congress theme, “Resisting Autocratization in Polarized Societies,”.
Nominations are solicited from MELA members and library administrators of libraries where MELA members serve for the Annual David H. Partington Award
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to invite applications for ACLS/ Marwan M. and Ute Kraidy Centennial Fellowships in the Study of the Arab World and Latin America
Bates Department of Religious Studies seeks an assistant professor in Islamic Studies for a tenure-track position beginning in August 2025.
The Macalester College Department of the Classical Mediterranean and Middle East invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Arabic.
The History Department at the United States Naval Academy invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in Middle Eastern history.
The Peace and Conflict Studies (PCON) program at Colgate University invites applications for a tenure-stream position starting in the fall semester of 2025 at the rank of Assistant Professor.
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce that 2024-25 ACLS fellowship and grant competitions are now open for select programs. ACLS offers programs that promote research across all fields of the humanities and interpretive social sciences
The Lexington Series in Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Arab World welcomes original scholarship on a wide range of topics from different perspectives, approaches, and methodologies that advance our understanding of gender and queerness in the Arab world.
The Department of Government at Dartmouth College invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics.
The Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World invites distinguished scholars to apply for its inaugural writing retreat from January 6-24, 2025