Digest

Co written by ACSS Board of Trustees member, Dr. Fadma Ait Mous

Integration and Disintegration in InterAsian Perspective February 15–28, 2021

Colonial Management of Death: To be or Not to be Dead in Palestine

The Knowledge Workshop

Deadline: September 9, 2020 at 17:00 Beirut time.

MECAM invites applications for its first Interdisciplinary Fellow Group (IFG) "Aesthetics & Cultural Practice".

Deadline: October 2,2020

Deadline for submissions: October 17, 2020

The Social Life of Wheat and Grapes: Domestic Land-Grabbing as Accumulation by Dispossession in Rural Egypt

November 11-12, 2020

Deadline: August 15, 2020

Mediterranean Politics.

Economic Sanctions and the United States’ Endless Wars in the Middle East

The Political and Economic Challenges and Consequences of COVID-19

As part of the research project “Historicity of democracy in the Arab world ” (HISDEMAB) coordinated by Dr. habil. Nora Lafi and based at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin (Germany ), which brings together German, French, Jordanian and Tunisian research teams financed by the Leibniz Collaborative Excellence initiative, a doctoral scholarship position is now available for the Jordan-based project team at IFPO Amman. Candidates must be enrolled in doctoral studies at a University in Jordan or enroll at the beginning of the scholarship and will devote their research to a local or regional aspect of the research programme.

Deadline for registration: Thursday, July 16, 2020

This conference aims to explore the role of economic transformation, education, social media, migration, and urbanization in the social changes in the Gulf societies, with a focus on their directions, magnitudes, and relevant policy options.

The topics will include any field of economics, economic history and political economy. The Program Committee welcomes both empirical and theoretical papers that use quantitative or analytical narrative methods.

Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

The Cairo Liaison Office in cooperation with the Department of History and Cultural Studies of Freie Universität Berlin are delighted to announce the upcoming Information session about the newly introduced master degree program on “Interdisciplinary studies of the Middle East” (ISME). The Information session will take place online on Tuesday, 14th July from 4pm to 5.30pm.