In the Media
In January of 2012, Chair of the ACSS Board of Trustees, Dr. Rahma Bourqia, and ACSS Director Dr. Seteney Shami, presented at a press conference at the headquarters of one of our donors, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). The ACSS was subsequently featured on the Sida website.
Hillary Wiesner from the Carnegie Corporation of New York talks about the state of social sciences in the Arab region.
Hillary Wiesner: The Social Sciences in the Arab World — Making Societies Visible to Themselves | March 19, 2013
Al-Fanar Media covers the launch of the summary of the first Arab Social Science Report.
Social Sciences Growing in the Arab World—But Slowly | March 24, 2015
Research Professional shares some of the preliminary findings of the first Arab Social Science Report.
Arab council documents rapid rise of social science [PDF] | April 2, 2015
The monthly audio journal Status interviews the ACSS Director General, Seteney Shami.
Mohammed Bamyeh, lead author of the first Arab Social Science Report, presents and discusses his findings in the framework of the EUME Berliner Seminar.
Social Sciences in the Arab World: General Characteristics and Fields of Presence | May 13, 2015
Social Sciences in the Arab World: General Characteristics and Fields of Presence | May 13, 2015
Facebook post about the news on the EUME page | July 19, 2016
The American Sociological Association's publication, Footnotes, features the ACSS and its work.
New Perspectives on Turkey interviews ACSS Director General, Seteney Shami.
Social Sciences in the Middle East: Community building in an embattled region | New Perspectives on Turkey, Volume 52, May 2015
The Carnegie Corporation of New York profiles the ACSS as one of its grantees.
Revolutionary Times | Carnegie Corporation of New York | July 27, 2015
Al-Fanar Media talks to ACSS Director General, Seteney Shami, about some of the challenges Arab scholars face.
The Door for Many Middle East Scholars is Slamming Shut | October 27, 2015
ACSS Director-General, Seteney Shami, talks to UNESCO about social transformations on the sidelines of the 2015 World Social Science Forum in Durban, South Africa.
Interview with Seteney Shami (ACSS) on Social Transformations Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 | December 12, 2015
The Swedish funding agency Sida talks to ACSS Director General, Seteney Shami, about the relationship between research and development.
Research plays a key role in development | January 12, 2016
ACSS Director-General Seteney Shami and lead author Mohammed Bamyeh talk to the Carnegie Corporation of New York about some of the findings of the first Arab social science report.
Al-Fanar Media talks to ACSS Director General, Seteney Shami, and lead author Mohammed Bamyeh about the first Arab Social Science report on the forms of presence of social sciences in the Arab world, and its implications for the field and the region.
Arab Social Sciences: Scarce, But Sorely Needed | April 9, 2016
The Jordan Times publishes a review of the first Arab Social Science Report on the forms of presence of social science in the Arab Region.
Linking academia with the public sphere | May 29, 2016
Abdelnacer Djabi from the program "Critica" on Algeria's KBC: El Khabar Broadcasting Corporation, talks to Mohammed Bamyeh, author of the first Arab Social Science Report, about the report's findings and the activities of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences.
"Critica" Interview with Mohammed Bamyeh | June 3, 2016
In a conversation with Al-Fanar Media, our Director General, Seteney Shami, reflects on our activities and the reality of social-science research in the Arab region, four years after the establishment of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences.
A Conversation With Seteney Shami | August 30, 2016
The New Arab runs a pre-event report on the second lecture of the Annual Hanna Batatu Lecture Series.
Dina Khoury: Iraq's history between Batatu and Al-Wardi | October 20, 2016
The Jordanian News Agency (Petra) covers Dina Rizk Khoury's lecture in Jordan, the second lecture of the Annual Hanna Batatu Lecture Series.
A lecture explores the difference between Batatu's and Al-Wardi's approaches to studying Iraq | October 22, 2016
Al-Fanar Media discusses the working conditions of social scientists in the Arab region with ACSS Board of Trustees VP, Sari Hanafi, ACSS Director General, Seteney Shami, and a number of scholars from the region.
Social Scientists Work amid Rising Suspicion | November 14, 2016
Global Dialogue, the newsletter of the International Sociological Association, features articles about social science in the Arab world by ACSS Director General, Seteney Shami, first Arab Social Science report author, Mohammed Bamyeh, and ACSS postdoctoral fellow, Idriss Jebari.
Social Science in the Arab World | December 2016
The Social Sciences in the Arab World - Mohammed Bamyeh
New Social Science Infrastructures in the Arab Region - Seteney Shami
Arab Social Sciences Before and Beyond the Spring - Idriss Jebari
Wattan news agency publishes a report on a roundtable titled "Emancipatory Knowledge Production under Colonialism: The Case of Palestine", which was organized during the Third ACSS Conference that was held on March 10-12, 2017 in Beirut.
The New Arab publishes a report on the Third ACSS Conference, which was held on March 10-12, 2017 in Beirut.
An Arab "Knowledge" Spring | March 13, 2017
Al-Wasat runs a series of reports by Abdulnabi Alekry on the Third ACSS Conference, which was held on March 10-12, 2017 in Beirut.
The Arab Conference for Social Sciences... The State and Society (Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4) | March 15, 2017 - April 1, 2017 - April 16, 2017 - April 22, 2017
Lebanon 24 reports on the opening of the Arab regional meeting on "Recentering the Humanities"
Opening session of the conference "Recentering the Humanities" under Khoury's patronage | May 18, 2017
Impact magazine publishes an interview with ACSS Director General, Seteney Shami
The value of knowledge production | July 2018
The National News Agency (NNA) reports on the ACSS participatin in the 2018 CLACSO Conference
ACSS takes part in CLACSO conference in Argentina | November 26, 2018
Tayyar.org covers the honoring of the ACSS at the 2018 CLACSO Conference
ACSS honored in Argentina | November 26, 2018
MTV reports on the ACSS participation in the 2018 CLACSO Conference
ACSS takes part in a conference in Argentina | November 26, 2018
ACSS honred at CLACSO Conference in Argentina | November 26, 2018
Lebanese Forces website reports on the honoring of the ACSS at the 2018 CLACSO Conference
ACSS honored in Argentina | November 28, 2018
Al-Rai covers the honors the ACSS received at the 2018 CLACSO Conference
ACSS honored at the CLACSO Conference in Argentina | December 9, 2018
L'Orient le jour reports on the award the ACSS received at the 2018 CLACSO Conference
L’hommage du Clacso aux intellectuels arabes | December 10, 2018
Status Hour talks to ACSS Director General about networking, knowledge production, and scholastic communities.
Seteney Shami on Arab Social Sciences | May 9, 2019
