Digital Content Associate, MESA Academic Freedom Initiative
MESA
The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) is seeking a part-time contractor to create digital content for its Academic Freedom Initiative.
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Official Launch of the Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies
Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies
Announcing the official launch of the Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies—a non-partisan academic institution dedicated to the rigorous and expansive study of the Islamic intellectual tradition. The TIAIS is dedicated to the dissemination of original and relevant research in Islamic Studies through the support of academic publications, themed conferences, book completion grants, article prizes, dissertation awards, and writing stipends.
Call for Applications: 2026-27 Membership Institute for Advance Study - School of Historical Studies
Institute for Advanced Study - School of Historical Studies
The Institute for Advanced Study School of Historical Studies invites scholars to apply for 2026-27 membership
Assistant Professor in the history of Arab Migration, Mobility and Diaspora
Khayrallah Center/North Carolina State University
The Department of History and the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at North Carolina State University invite applications to fill the Akram Khater Distinguished Professorship in Arab Migration Studies. We invite applicants for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in the history of Arab Migration, Mobility and Diaspora, beginning August 2026.
Ethnographic Experiments from and with the Arab World
Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
Submit your paper for the Ethnographic Experiments from and with the Arab World symposium to be held at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies December 15-16.
Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in Anthropology (Fall 2026)
The American University in Cairo
The Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology (SEA) invites applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor of Anthropology with expertise in either the Anthropology of Religion and/or the Anthropology of the Environment.
CFP: NAAIMS Webinar Conference on “Islam and AI” (Nov. 20, 2025; abstracts due July 11)
North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies
The 54th Annual Conference “Islam and AI: Challenges and opportunities” calls for paper submissions.
Conference “Minority Law in Arab States – Governing Religious Diversity”
AGYA & Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
The international conference "Minority Law in Arab States: Governing Religious Diversity" invites people to join them in Hamburg, July 14-15.
Lecturer in Arabic
Ohio State University
The Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures (NESA) seeks to appoint one (1) 100% Lecturer position (non-tenure track) in Arabic culture.
Symposium “Islamic Law in Comparative Perspectives: Milestones, Methods, and Epistemologies” in honour of Professor Nadjma Yassari
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
This event will celebrate the extensive and influential research of Professor Nadjma Yassari (Director of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law) on Islamic law and the field of comparative law.
Assistant Professor in Political Science with emphasis on the Middle East
The American University in Cairo
The Department of Political Science invites applicants for an assistant professor position in Political Science with an emphasis on the Middle East starting Fall 2025.
International Winter School 2026: Call for Applications
The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
ACRPS invites applications for the seventh International Winter School (IWS7) titled "The ‘Post-Liberal Moment’: A Paradigm Shift or a Passing Trend?" in Doha, Qatar.
Arab Graduate Students Conference 2026
Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies
The Center invites applications for its Fifth Conference for Arab Graduate Students in Western Universities to be held from 11-13 April 2026, at the Arab Center premises in Doha, Qatar.
LEO Lecturer I - Arabic Language
University of Michigan Middle East Studies
The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and the Department of Middle East Studies invite applications for a LEO Lecturer I in Arabic Language for the Fall 2025 Term.
CfP Symposium: Literature, Care, and the Ethics of Living in Southwest Asia and North Africa
Utrecht University
Southwest Asian and North African Literatures Network invite abstract submission from scholars at all career stages.
Filling the Power Vacuum? China’s Engagement with the Middle East
National University of Singapore
The Middle East Institute invites people to a Book Talk by Dr. Zhang Chuchu on her new book China’s Changing Role in the Middle East: Filling a Power Vacuum? held via Zoom.
CFP: NAAIMS Webinar Conference on “Islam and AI” (Nov. 20, 2025; abstracts due July 11)
North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies
NAAIMS invites abstract submissions for a fall conference on "Islam and AI: Challenges and Opportunities." The conference will be held online on Nov. 20th.
CFP: Conference on Global Iranian Diaspora Studies (May 2026)
Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies
The Conference on Global Iranian Diaspora Studies invite individual papers, pre-organized panels, and creative submissions that engage with the conference topics.
The Contemporary Iranian Studies Conference
University of Tehran
The Conference invite panel proposals and abstract submissions related to all major fields of Iranian studies in four general categories of politics, sociology, culture and economics are welcomed.
Freedom of Speech, Trump and Campus Repression: The Case of Badar Khan Suri
Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU)
Join the panel discussion on April 14 at 4pm in the HFSC Social Room at Georgetown University or virtually.
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.
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
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.
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