Digest

The ACSS organized on October 24-25, 2018 in London a closed consultation meeting that gathered leading researchers on Arab countries, Turkey and Iran for an open discussion of concepts of the region, its changing dynamics, and its connections with parts of the global system.

The eventual aim of this meeting is to set up an interdisciplinary working group coordinated by Dr. Adam Hanieh (SOAS-London). The project hopes to strengthen and support the specific, individual research interests of people working on various aspects of the region, through collaborative thinking and discussion.

As with other ACSS working groups, this project aims to challenge conventional ways of thinking about Middle East social science, and help define a critical research agenda that is grounded in rigorous empirical work and that can also speak to wider theoretical concerns beyond the study of the Middle East.