Calls for Papers Submissions - Women, Gender and Families of Color
The Pennsylvania State University
Women, Gender, and Families of Color seek papers to expand a “Care and Well-Being Toolkit” for communities of color in higher education.
- All News
CFP for New Books on Arab Cinema
Palgrave Studies on Arab Cinema
The Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema is seeking proposals for new books that explore a range of topics and approaches to Arab cinema.
Calls for Paper and Panel Proposals - World Congress of Political Science
The International Political Science Association (IPSA)
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,”.
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Bates College
Bates Department of Religious Studies seeks an assistant professor in Islamic Studies for a tenure-track position beginning in August 2025.
Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History
United States Naval Academy
The History Department at the United States Naval Academy invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in Middle Eastern history.
Assistant Professor in Infrastructures of Peace and Conflict
Colgate University
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.
ACLS Accepting Applications for 2024-25 Fellowship and Grant Competitions
American Council of Learned Societies
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
Calls for Book Proposals
The Lexington Series in Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Arab World
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.
Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics
Dartmouth College
The Department of Government at Dartmouth College invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics.
Assistant Professor of the Modern Arab Middle East
Brandeis University
The Crown Center for Middle East Studies and the School of Arts and Sciences at Brandeis University invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor position in the modern Arab Middle East with a strong preference for candidates in Anthropology or Sociology.
Exploring the Middle East: Dynamics, Challenges, and Perspectives
Christopher Newport University
The Middle East and North Africa Studies Program at Christopher Newport University invites abstract submissions for the conference Exploring the Middle East: Dynamics, Challenges, and Perspectives by August 16th.
Introduction to Arabic Translation
The Aga Khan University in the United Kingdom
AKU-ISMC’s new Centre for the Languages of the Muslim World is delighted to offer the new short course, Introduction to Arabic Translation, as part of its Professional Development series.
Interdisciplinary Fellowships at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music
Yale University
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music seeks applicants for the 2025 fellowship cohort
Conference Announcement and Call for Papers: Disasters In and Of the Middle East
CMES Harvard University
The Disaster Studies Initiative at Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to announce a 2-day conference to center the region in scholarly discourse on disasters and seeks paper submissions from scholars across all fields that focus on disaster discourse
MESA announces search for editor of the Review of Middle East Studies
MESA announces a call for applications by the end of summer 2024 for the editorship of its journal, the Review of Middle East Studies, published by Cambridge University Press.
Yemeni Studies Fellowship for US Scholars Now Accepting Applications
The American Institute for Yemeni Studies
The American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS) is now accepting applications for the US Scholars Fellowship until February 13th, 2024! This fellowship enables US scholars to travel and complete research on Yemen in any academic discipline.
Call for Papers - Springer Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology: Iran and Shared Spheres in Homelands and Diasporas
UCLA
We would like to invite you to submit a chapter proposal for an edited volume tentatively titled Linguistic Anthropology: Iran and Shared Spheres in Homelands and Diasporas. This handbook welcomes scholars from all social and human science disciplines to contribute to linguistic anthropological studies.
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.
Assistant Professor-Tenure System
Michigan State University
The Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University is hiring a tenure-stream Assistant Professor in the position of Contemporary Islam.
MESA Board Initiates Search for Next IJMES Editor
Middle East Studies Associaton
The MESA Board of Directors invites applications and nominations for the next editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES) for a five-year term beginning July 1, 2025. Application review will begin June 2024, and continue until a new editor is identified.
Call for papers: The Fares Center International Conference
The Fares Center
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
Assistant Professor of Practice - International Studies
University of Arizona
The College of Education invites applications for an academic Assistant Professor of Practice career-track position in International Studies
The Ethics of Weeping: The Case of Islam
Weeping is a way to express commitment to a community and what it holds to be sacred, but not all weeping is the same, even in a single religious tradition.
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.