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EURAMES Info Service 21/2020


CONFERENCES

1.    POSTPONED: Workshop on "Pension Reform in the Middle East and North Africa", German Development Institute, Bonn, 27 August 2020

2.     POSTPONED: 5th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP 2020), Barcelona, 13-18 September 2020

3.     POSTPONED: Fourth “European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies“ (Turkologentag 2020), University of Mainz, 16-18 September 2020

4.     International Seminar: "Anti-Migration Politics and Islamic Ethics: Nationalism, Discrimination, Securitization and Vulnerable Groups", Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, 20-22 September 2020 (or online)

5.     International Symposium: “On the Boundaries of Here and Now“, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 1–2 October 2020

6.     4th International Conference: “MediterráneoS 2020”, Madrid, 14-16 October 2020

7.     2nd Annual Armenian International Congress on Oriental Studies, Yerevan, 23-24 October 2020

8.     5th Annual Conference of the Gulf Studies Center on "Social Change in the Gulf Societies in 21st Century", Qatar University, 11-12 November 2020

9.     Conference: "Land to the Tiller? Hopes and Ruins of Agrarian Reform in Africa, Asia and the Middle East", Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 12-13 November 2020

10.  4th Workshop on "Security & Stability in the Mediterranean and the Middle East", Institute of International Economic Relations, Athens, 19-21 November 2020

11.  Annual Meeting of the “International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA 2020)“, Boston, MA, 20-23 November 2020

12.  Conférence internationale « Islam et Pudeur », Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique, 3-4 décembre 2020

13.  3rd ANU Religion Conference: “Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”, Australian National University, Canberra, 8-10 December 2020

14.  Conference: "Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond. Al-Ṣafadī and His Pairs", Ca' Foscari University, Venice, 10-12 December 2020

15.  Conference: “The Middle East c.1960-1980. Global and Transnational Perspectives“, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 5 March 2021

16.  Conference: “Rethinking Narratives of China and the Middle East – The Silk Roads and Beyond”, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 8-10 April 2021

17.  Symposium on "Alanya and Alaaddin Keykubat on the Eve of 800th Year of Conquest", Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, 21-22 April 2021

18.  International Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī Symposium, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, 20-22 May 2021

19.  Maghreb Review and Maghreb Studies Association Conference: "Empires in the Middle East and the Maghreb: The Shaping of Hopes and Perspectives", Oxford, 13-14 September 2021


POSITIONS

20.  PhD Position in Sociology/Gender Studies on Islamic Veiling, University of Lausanne

21.  Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science for Research on "Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns", Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim

22.  Research Assistant in Peace and Conflict Research (Focus Syria), Uppsala University, Sweden

23.  Research Assistant in Peace and Conflict Research (Focus Sudan), Uppsala University, Sweden

24.  Research Associate / Fellow in Forced Marriage and Modern Slavery, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham

25.  PhD Candidate in “Socially Engaged Art and State Transformation in Lebanon and Palestine/West Bank,“ University of Amsterdam

26.  Associate Professor and/or Full Professor in Political Science, University of Copenhagen

27.  Two Lecturers in Middle East/South Asia Studies, University of California Davis

28.  Lecturer in Turkish Language, University of California Los Angeles


OTHER INFORMATION

29.  Research Grants of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA)

30.  Awards and Prices of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA) for 2020

31.  Best Article Award in Kurdish Political Studies, University of Central Florida (UCF)

32.  Price of the Middle East Medievalists (MEM) for the Best Dissertation on the Medieval Middle East (500-1500 CE)

33.  MENACS Online Workshop for PhD Candidates Working on MENA-related Topics, 29 June 2020, 2.00-5.00pm

34.  Online Summer School: "The Middle East in Global Politics", SOAS University of London, 29 June - 10 July 2020

35.  Research Project on "Post-Corona: Transformative Landscapes and Shifting Priorities (Focus on MENA)", Cordoba Foundation and Egyptian Institute for Studies

36.  Articles for "YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies"

37.  Articles for the “Journal for the Advancement of Developing Economies (JADE)“

38.  Country Studies from the MENA Region on “Global Perspectives on Family and COVID-19“ for Special Issue of “Journal of Comparative Family Studies“ (University of Toronto Press)

39.  Articles on "Poetized Love: Affects, Gender and Society" for Special Issue of "Anthropology of the Middle East"

40.  Articles for Book on "The Effects of Pandemics on Religious History" (Focus Islamic and Jewish History) Edited by Global Center for Religious Research

41.  Chapters for Edited Book on "Music and Society of Modern Iran" (Ilex, Harvard University Press)

42.  Chapters for Edited Book on "Rebel Governance in the MENA"

43.  New Series of Blogs on the Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on the MENA Region, Middle East and North Africa Centre at Sussex (MENACS)

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CONFERENCES

1.    POSTPONED: Workshop on "Pension Reform in the Middle East and North Africa", German Development Institute, Bonn, 27 August 2020

The workshop will discuss the origins of pension schemes in the MENA region, understand their trajectories, identify options of systemic and parametric pension reforms and explore the complex politics behind them. The workshop has been postponed until 28-29 January 2021.


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2.    POSTPONED: 5th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP 2020), Barcelona, 13-18 September 2020

The workshop has been postponed to 1 December 2020 due to the corona crisis. The deadline for papers has been extended to 1 September 2020.


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3.    POSTPONED: Fourth “European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies“ (Turkologentag 2020), University of Mainz, 16-18 September 2020

The conference is organized by the Society for Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (GTOT) in co-operation with the Chair of Turcology of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and addresses the domains of language, literature, history, culture, society, politics, and philology of the Turks and the Turkic peoples. Due to the Corona crisis the conference has been postponed until 24-26 March 2021.


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4.    International Seminar: "Anti-Migration Politics and Islamic Ethics: Nationalism, Discrimination, Securitization and Vulnerable Groups", Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, 20-22 September 2020 (or online)

This seminar aims to explore the current growing hostilities towards migrants, asylum seekers and refugees around the world from the perspectives of Islamic ethical principles, legal and political challenges. Papers should have some empirical content and analysis along with reflections on Islamic ethical principles.


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5.    International Symposium: “On the Boundaries of Here and Now“, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 1–2 October 2020

This symposium aims to reflect on and contribute to the methodological lenses introduced by the recent scholarship and is an attempt to develop a critical understanding of the disputed spaces in Eurasia. Simultaneously, it seeks to investigate how boundaries are negotiated, (re-)made, resisted and/or unmade within spaces of cultural (re)production in the contemporary world, where, for instance, a populist wave of nationalist ideologies fuels tensions and conflicts globally.


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6.    4th International Conference: “MediterráneoS 2020”, Madrid, 14-16 October 2020

Papers will present research works on the transfer of knowledge from the study of educational systems to the transmission of ideas, texts, artistic techniques or work methodologies, utensils, legends, ceremonies, and its Greco-Roman, Jewish, Arab and Near Eastern influences.


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7.    2nd Annual Armenian International Congress on Oriental Studies, Yerevan, 23-24 October 2020

We invite papers on the Middle East from the ancient times to the present day, including religious studies, geography, anthropology, political science, literary studies, linguistics, philosophy, art history, and media studies.


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8.    5th Annual Conference of the Gulf Studies Center on "Social Change in the Gulf Societies in 21st Century", Qatar University, 11-12 November 2020

The workshop will address significant questions such as: what was the extent of the relationship between Nazi genocide and colonialism? What were potential ways in which European colonialism could have fed back into Europe throughout World War II? Etc.


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9.    Conference: "Land to the Tiller? Hopes and Ruins of Agrarian Reform in Africa, Asia and the Middle East", Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 12-13 November 2020

The conference will explore current research from historical as well as contemporary perspectives, ranging from radical schemes to give land exclusively to "the tiller", to other practices and measures such as the establishment of cooperatives, as well as educational and organizational transformations targeting rural and peasant populations.

Deadline for application extended to 15 June 2020.

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10.  4th Workshop on "Security & Stability in the Mediterranean and the Middle East", Institute of International Economic Relations, Athens, 19-21 November 2020

Topics include: Security in the Mediterranean and the Broader Middle East; Migration, Refugee Crisis and Human Security in the Mediterranean and the Middle East; The Present and Future of Euro-Mediterranean relations.


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11.  Annual Meeting of the “International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA 2020)“, Boston, MA, 20-23 November 2020

Program Units include: The Qur’an: Manuscripts and Textual Criticism; Linguistic, Literary, and Thematic Perspectives on the Qur`anic Corpus; The Societal Qur`an; Qur`anic Studies: Methodology and Hermeneutics; etc.


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12.  Conférence internationale « Islam et Pudeur », Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique, 3-4 décembre 2020

La conférence se centrera sur le thème de la pudeur (hayâ’) dans l’Islam, ses conceptions, ses réceptions et ses perceptions dans le monde musulman et le monde occidental. Comment comprendre les tensions majeures qui surviennent aujourd’hui sans une compréhension plus précise et mieux ancrée de la tradition islamique et de ses contextes?

Date limite pour la soumission des résumés : 1er juin 2020. Information: Dr. Ayang Utriza Yakin ayang.walad@uclouvain.be

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13.  3rd ANU Religion Conference: “Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”, Australian National University, Canberra, 8-10 December 2020

Forms of human movement including global immigration, asylum-seeking, climate migration, and the internal migration accompanying mass urbanisation, have radically altered religious cultures around the world, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. The aim of this conference is to explore the various phenomena related to religion and migration; the political and social transitions impacting upon the transnational religiosity of contemporary communities.


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14.  Conference: "Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond. Al-Ṣafadī and His Pairs", Ca' Foscari University, Venice, 10-12 December 2020

At the end of a research project on al-Ṣafadī’s working method, his scholarly network, his habits as a reader and as a scholar in the extremely rich context of the beginning of the Mamluk period the conference will broaden the scope by confronting these results to other situations: other authors, other periods, other places.


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15.  Conference: “The Middle East c.1960-1980. Global and Transnational Perspectives“, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 5 March 2021

The Conference will look at the ways in which events in the Middle East were shaped by global and transnational contexts and, in turn, the impact events in the region exercised on other parts of the world.


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16.  Conference: “Rethinking Narratives of China and the Middle East – The Silk Roads and Beyond”, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 8-10 April 2021

Papers will examine the relationship between China and the Middle East, both ancient and modern, and incorporate additional regions, such as Europe, Central Asia, or South/Southeast Asia.



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17.  Symposium on "Alanya and Alaaddin Keykubat on the Eve of 800th Year of Conquest", Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, 21-22 April 2021

The symposium will focus on Sultan Alaaddin Keykubat and the history of Alanya during Seljukid, Ottoman and Republican periods.


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18.  International Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī Symposium, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, 20-22 May 2021

Topics include: • Linguistics • Logic • Tafsīr • Astronomy • Mathematics • Medicine • Geography • Philosophy • Illuminationism • Sufism • Kalām • Music • Ethics and Political Theory • Shīrāzī in Manuscripts and Book Culture Studies • Commentaries (Shurūḥ, ḥawāshī, taʻlīqāt) • Scholarly Networks and Ijāzatnāmas • Urban Studies; etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 May 2020. Information: http://kutbuddinsirazi.cumhuriyet.edu.tr/en/index.php

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19.  Maghreb Review and Maghreb Studies Association Conference: "Empires in the Middle East and the Maghreb: The Shaping of Hopes and Perspectives", Oxford, 13-14 September 2021

Besides the European powers that established their colonial hegemony in the MENA region, the conference will also deal with the influence of countries, such as the United States of America and Germany, which extended their influence through diplomacy, financial and military aid, and education.


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POSITIONS

20.  PhD Position in Sociology/Gender Studies on Islamic Veiling, University of Lausanne

This study is entitled "Shaping the legal consciousness of intersectional subjects: accommodating, negotiating and contesting regulations on Islamic veiling in France, Switzerland and the U.K.". Qualifications: MA in Social Sciences and/or gender studies; practical experience with qualitative research methods and analysis; good knowledge of and/or proficiency in German; working language will be English or French.


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21.  Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science for Research on "Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns", Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim

The project aims to understand how organizational networks in resistance movements (violent and nonviolent) influence the prospects of sustainable democratization.

Deadline for applications: 31 Mai 2020.

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22.  Research Assistant in Peace and Conflict Research (Focus Syria), Uppsala University, Sweden

Duties: Work in the  projects "Mapping Violence in Syria" and "Cultural Violence and Civilian Casualties: Spatial and temporal analysis of social disintegration in Syria, 2014-17". Requirements: MA in Peace and Conflict studies or equivalent subject, very good knowledge of Arabic, English and of the conflict/s/ in Syria, experience of data collection work in the field of conflict studies.

Deadline for applications: 29 May 2020.

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23.  Research Assistant in Peace and Conflict Research (Focus Sudan), Uppsala University, Sweden

Duties: Work within the project "Who targets the peacekeepers? New data and procedures to track perpetrators of violence against peacekeepers". Requirements: MA in Peace and Conflict studies or equivalent subject; experience in research on peacekeeping and/or either of the empirical cases (Mali and Sudan); fluency in French or Arabic.


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24.  Research Associate / Fellow in Forced Marriage and Modern Slavery, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham

The recent PhD graduate will survey and analyse international and domestic on forced marriage from around the world and will build a new global database of law, policy, and practice relating to forced marriage. Applications are welcome from across the globe and different cultures, ethnicities and beliefs.


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25.  PhD Candidate in “Socially Engaged Art and State Transformation in Lebanon and Palestine/West Bank,“ University of Amsterdam

The successful applicant must have a relevant Master’s degree in the Humanities or Social Sciences or the Arts, completed no later than 31 August 2020; outstanding research qualities; excellent spoken Arabic; excellent written and spoken English.


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26.  Associate Professor and/or Full Professor in Political Science, University of Copenhagen

Candidates are invited within the field of International Relations including, but not limited to security studies, gender, diplomacy, war, post-colonialism, international political sociology and political economy.

Deadline for applications: 10 June 2020. Information: https://socioloxy.com/professorship-of-international-relations,i6621.html

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27.  Two Lecturers in Middle East/South Asia Studies, University of California Davis

Demonstrated experience in teaching and advanced degree in the specific language or related discipline is desirable.


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28.  Lecturer in Turkish Language, University of California Los Angeles

The candidate must have experience teaching Turkish language courses at the university level. A Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages or related field is required.

Deadline for applications: 1 June 2020. Information: https://socioloxy.com/lecturer-in-turkish-language,i6731.html

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OTHER INFORMATION

29.  Research Grants of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA)

Grants of up to $2500 will be awarded to successful applicants with topics that relate to one of the five qualifying subject areas: Minorities and Women, Military History, Governance and Economy, Faith, and Iran.

Deadline for application: 30 May 2020.

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30.  Awards and Prices of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA) for 2020

The deadlines for application for the undergraduate and graduate student awards of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA) as well as for the Redhouse Prize for Best Progress in Turkish and for the AATT Ottoman Turkish Translation Award have been extended until 30 June 2020.


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31.  Best Article Award in Kurdish Political Studies, University of Central Florida (UCF)

For this award cycle, articles published in English in peer-reviewed journals in 2019 will be considered. The award is open to all disciplines under social sciences and humanities. The primary author of the article needs to be an untenured scholar at the time of the publication. The winner will be awarded $500.


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32.  Price of the Middle East Medievalists (MEM) for the Best Dissertation on the Medieval Middle East (500-1500 CE)

Dissertations filed and defended between 1 July 2018 and 31 May 2020 will be eligible for this year’s prize. It will be awarded during the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association in Washington, DC in October 2020.


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33.  MENACS Online Workshop for PhD Candidates Working on MENA-related Topics, 29 June 2020, 2.00-5.00pm

In this workshop the presentations should be 5-10 minutes and will be followed by a short Q&A session and feedback from a panel of multidisciplinary experts in the MENACS Committee.


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34.  Online Summer School: "The Middle East in Global Politics", SOAS University of London, 29 June – 10 July 2020

The summer school will place the modern Middle East in its global context, without losing sight of local and regional dynamics, cultures, and political traditions. It is informed by critical engagement with international relations scholarship.


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35.  Research Project on "Post-Corona: Transformative Landscapes and Shifting Priorities (Focus on MENA)", Cordoba Foundation and Egyptian Institute for Studies

This call for papers invites contributors from scholars, researchers, policymakers and practitioners from a range of disciplinary perspectives. All papers will be published after peer review and an international conference is planned on "The Corona Pandemic: changes and transformations in geopolitics and strategic developments impacting the MENA".

Deadline for abstracts: 5 June 2020. Information: https://www.thecordobafoundation.com/news.php?id=1&art=199

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36.  Articles for "YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies"

The peer-reviewed, open access, international academic journal invites submissions of original research articles, opinion pieces (Meclis), book and exhibition reviews in Turkish or English, by researchers working on any period of the city through the lens of history, history of art and architecture, archaeology, sociology, anthropology, geography, urban planning, urban studies, and other related disciplines in humanities or social sciences.

Deadline for submissions: 19 July 2020. Information: https://en.iae.org.tr/calls-for-paper/20

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37.  Articles for the “Journal for the Advancement of Developing Economies (JADE)“

Articles are invited on Leadership and policy; Business and economics; Agriculture and environment; Transformative education; Technological advancement.


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38.  Country Studies from the MENA Region on “Global Perspectives on Family and COVID-19“ for Special Issue of “Journal of Comparative Family Studies“ (University of Toronto Press)

The articles should focus on the changes and effects of COVID-19: Economic well-being; work/income; Education and schooling; Family interaction, social distancing, and isolation; Mental health and anxiety; Communication in community; Ethnic, cultural, and social class variations.

Deadline for manuscripts: 1 June 2020. Information: https://utpjournals.press/journals/jcfs/cfp

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39.  Articles on "Poetized Love: Affects, Gender and Society" for Special Issue of "Anthropology of the Middle East"

This issue seeks to analyze love poetry not from a literary or linguistic point of view but from an anthropological point of view. What kind of gender relations are involved in seductive and romantic encounters when women and men do not have the same options to express their affection?

Deadline for abstracts: 1 July 2020.

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40.  Articles for Book on "The Effects of Pandemics on Religious History" (Focus Islamic and Jewish History) Edited by Global Center for Religious Research

We welcome both industry leaders and scholars from any discipline related to religious studies, the natural or social sciences, theology, and history. Proposals may include any topic related to the impact of pandemics, diseases, or pestilence.


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41.  Chapters for Edited Book on "Music and Society of Modern Iran" (Ilex, Harvard University Press)

Contributions are invited on the topics of (1) the popular music of Tehran in the 1950s-70s period, including performers like Mahvash, Aghasi and Soosan, (2) pre-revolutionary pop, psychedelic or rock music, (3) post-revolutionary Iranian pop music, and (4) post-revolutionary hip hop, rock, or alternative music. Edited by Nahid Siamdoust and Houchang Chehabi.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2020. Information: nahid.siamdoust@yale.edu

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42.  Chapters for Edited Book on "Rebel Governance in the MENA"

This volume is edited by the post-doc fellow Abdalhadi Alijla (Orient Institute Beirut). Its aim is to explore varieties of topics related to rebel governance in the Middle East, mainly in Syria, Yemen, Libya, Lebanon and Palestine.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 August 2020.

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43.  New Series of Blogs on the Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on the MENA Region, Middle East and North Africa Centre at Sussex (MENACS)

The first article deals with "Palestine under Lockdown: What`s New?"

For further information see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/menacs/partnerships


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