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The Middle East Studies Association calls for submissions for its 54th annual meeting to be held on October 10-13, 2020 in Washington, DC.

What are the opportunities available for Arab social scientists? See our roundup of open calls.

The Research on the Arts Program (RAP)- a joint program by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS)- convened a workshop in Beirut on January 4 and 5, 2020, bringing together the recipients of the 2020 grants’ cycle and members of the jury committee.

The joint scheme is aimed towards engaging participants in the sustainable development of cultural heritage antiquity and the humanities in their home countries to better serve local, post-conflict needs.

Syrian Refugees, Water Scarcity, and Dynamic Policies: How Do the New Refugee Discourses Impact Water Governance Debates in Lebanon and Jordan?

The International Public Policy Association and FLACSO Ecuador are happy to announce the call for Papers for the International Workshop on Public Policy, 2nd edition (IWPP2). IWPP2 will be held in the beautiful historic city of Quito (Ecuador) from July 1 to July 3, 2020.

Congrès L’Association International des Sociologues de Langue Francaise : « GTO4 – Sociétés arabes en mouvement – La société moral (in)justifiée… », Tunis, 6-10 juillet 2020

Abaher El-Sakka, Professeur de sociologie à l’Université de Birzeit est également chercheur associé dans plusieurs centres de recherche, et membre du conseil d'administration du conseil arabe pour les sciences sociales.

Organised with the Arab Council for the Social Sciences, at the 16th EASA Biennial Conference, between 21-24 July 2020 in Lisbon.

Nationalization of GCC Labor Markets: The Changing Role of Higher Education in the Era of the 4th Industrial Revolution

AFAC and ACSS Award Six Research Projects The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture – AFAC and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences – ACSS are thrilled to announce the selection of six research projects for the second cycle of their joint Research on the Arts Program (RAP).

The Arab Political Science Network (APSN) is pleased to announce the 2020 Conference Travel Grants. As part of its mission to support the professional development of PhD students and faculty members from the Arab MENA region, these grants are offered for individuals and groups accepted to participate and present at an academic conference.

Joining the Dots: Re-Thinking Social Movements in MENA

This conference presents an opportunity to recast the Middle East beyond the reductive daily headlines.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hamad bin Khalifa University (HBKU) in Qatar invites applications for Associate Professor/ Professor Positions in Sociolinguistics / Corpus Linguistics / Computational Linguistics / Social Computing / Digital Humanities or a related field.

The Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) is pleased to announce a five-day intensive workshop on “Environmentalism in the Arab Region: Concepts and Methods,” co-organized with the Odum Institute, a research institute housed at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill (USA). The workshop will be held on February 10-14, 2020 in Beirut, Lebanon. It seeks to bring together 15 to 20 researchers from the ACSS network who submitted proposals and/or received grants in the three cycles of the “Environmentalism, Impoverishment and Social Justice Movements: Interdisciplinary Perspectives” research program. We invite participants who are interested in training on mixed research methods and developing their knowledge of state-of-the-art concepts and frameworks in the field of environmentalism.

Submissions for this issue can include poetry, prose, research articles, journalistic pieces, personal narratives, and artistic submissions.

Resisting Ableism, Queering Desirability Slated for publication in April 2020

What are the opportunities available for Arab social scientists? See our roundup of open calls.

The ACSS was represented at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), which convened its 25th Anniversary Summit in Nairobi, Kenya (November 12 -14, 2019) to galvanize partnerships and mobilize political will and financial commitments to fully implement the landmark ICPD Programme of Action and achieve the sustainable development goals by 2030.