Third Arab Social Science Report
"The Academic Universes of Social Scientists in the Arab World: Career Trajectories and Networks in Universities"
The Third Arab Social Science Report charts the educational and career trajectories of social scientists and humanists in the Arab world, both within and outside the academy, as well as the factors that enable or constrain their career and knowledge production.
This Report is based on information collected through 3 instruments: An online survey of Arab social scientists and humanists; semi-structured interviews with a random sample of respondents to the survey in order to supplement the quantitative data; and six background papers providing qualitative insights that help contextualize the survey data.
The Report looks at the ways in which the careers of individual social scientists and humanists unfold within the academic sphere and principally within the institution of the university. It also aims to identify individual as well as institutional and occupational characteristics of Arab social scientists and humanists, including their biographical profiles (age, gender, and citizenship), education (fields of study, level and year of obtained degrees, and study location), employment (including job title, type and location of employing institution, professional duties, and recruitment and promotion criteria), and research profiles (fields, themes, and geographic scope of research; quantity, quality, form, and outlet of research output; and evaluation criteria).
The Third Arab Social Science Report thus aims to shed light on the opportunities, motivations, incentives, and barriers that social scientists and humanists encounter over the course of their careers.
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Ahmad Dallal is the 13th president of the American University in Cairo. Before that he was Dean of Georgetown University in Qatar. Until Summer 2017, he was a professor of History in the Department of History and Archaeology at the American University of Beirut, where he served as Provost from 2009-2015. Between 2003 and 2009, Dr. Dallal served as chair of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. He had previously held positions at Stanford University (2000-2003), Yale University (1994-2000), and Smith College (1990-1994).
Dallal has written and lectured widely on a variety of topics, including the Islamic disciplines of learning in medieval and early modern Islamic societies, the development of traditional and exact Islamic sciences, Islamic medieval thought, the early-modern evolution of Islamic revivalism and intellectual movements, and Islamic law.
He has written dozens of articles and publications and many books including An Islamic Response to Greek Astronomy: Kitab Ta‘dil Hay’at al-Aflak of Sadr al-Shari‘a (1995); Islam, Science and the Challenge of History (2012); The Political Theology of ISIS, Prophets, Messiahs and the "Extinction of the Greyzone" (2017); and Islam without Europe – Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth Century Islamic Thought (2018).
Dallal earned his PhD from Columbia University in Islamic Studies, and his BE in Mechanical Engineering from the American University of Beirut.
Related Material
Interview with Dr. Ahmad Dallal: https://www.facebook.com/theacss/videos/396800308212812
Background paper: Memoirs of Arab Intellectuals: an Archive of Intellectual Practices | Fadi Bardawil (2019)
Background paper: Transnational Academic Mobility: Experience of Arab Social Scientists | Lea Bou Khater (2019)
Background paper: National Research Strategies and University Strategic Plans in the Arab Region | Diane Nauffal and Kamal Abouchedid (2019)
Background paper:Promotion Policies and Recruitment in Selective Key Universities in the Arab Region | Kamal Abouchedid and Diane Nauffal (2019)
Background paper: Editorial Boards in the Arab Region | Cynthia Kreichati (2019)
Background paper: Social Sciences in NGOs and Research Centers in the Arab region | Cynthia Kreichati (2019)
ASSM databases summary tables: : ASSM Databases Summary Tables, December 2021
