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Call for Applications: MESA/ACSS/OIB Summer 2025 Workshop

MESA

The Middle East Studies Association, the Arab Council for the Social Sciences, the Orient Institute in Beirut are organizing a five-day workshop at the American University of Cairo, June 29-July 3. The workshop, which is co-sponsored by AUC, will bring together a select group of doctoral students from North American, German, and Arab universities to discuss the possibilities, critical approaches, epistemological, and practical challenges of undertaking archival and/or ethnographic research in the Arab region. 

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MENACA 2024: 2nd Symposium on Middle Eastern, North African, & Central Asian Dance, Music, and Performing Arts

Middle Eastern, North African, and Central Asian Dances (MENACA)

Schedule and Registration are available for The Second Symposium on Middle Eastern, North African and Central Asian Dances, Music and Performing Arts (MENACA 2024) to be held in-person on the campus of Pomona College in Claremont, California, from 3-6 October 2024.

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Curator - Islamic Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

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Reading Race in Medieval Arabic Literature a talk by Rachel Schine

Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University

How might we pursue comparative, critical study of premodern processes of racialization? This talk will cover main methods, meanings, and sources that the author engages in examining racialization in the Islamic Middle Ages, as well as some past and present problematics of doing so within the Euro-American academy.

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Images of Etel Adnan

Literatures of Annihilation, Exile, and Resistance

This event is taking place in remembrance of Etel Adnan, the beloved Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist, who passed away in November 2021. She is survived by her longtime partner, renowned Syrian Lebanese artist Simone Fattal.

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