mercredi 10 juillet 2019

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Palestinian Oral History Archive
"About the Archive :
The Palestinian Oral History Archive is a project to digitize, index, catalog, preserve, and provide access (through a searchable digital platform) to an
archival collection of around 1,000 hours of testimonies with first generation Palestinians and other Palestinian communities in Lebanon. POHA documents the life stories of Palestinians residing in refugee camps and different communities in Lebanon. The Archive's main focus is personal accounts surrounding the Nakba, a defining moment in Palestinian history and collective experience. Furthermore, the collection contains life narratives of the pre-Nakba period in pre-1948 Palestine, folktales and songs, as well as stories of the women in Ein el-Helwe camp after its destruction in 1982."

The project is a partnership between the Nakba Archive & al-Jana (collection owners) and Issam Fares Institute at the American University of Beirut and the University Libraries. It was made possible by an award from the NEH, and used the OHMS application and viewer.

Posted: 12 Jun 2019 06:52 AM PDT



Palestinian Oral History Map

"The project is a means to navigate the POHA oral history platform, which contains over one thousand hours of oral testimonies from Palestinians who lived through the Nakba, describing everyday life and culture in Palestine before 1948, as well as their experiences of displacement and exile.
The interactive map allows you to explore the testimonies based on the historic landmarks that they describe—from schools, hospitals and factories to rivers, valleys and mountains—and to see these in the context of detailed historic maps from the 1940s that Visualizing Palestine helped to make available through Palestine Open Maps (POM).

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L'impossible État irakien

L’impossible État irakien. Les Kurdes à la recherche d’un État, Adel Bakawan, L’Harmattan, 2019, 186 p., 19,50 €

Juillet 2019
Le sociologue Adel Bakawan est un universitaire à cheval entre la France et l’Irak. Dans cette synthèse, il revient sur la trajectoire du mouvement national kurde dans ses variantes laïque et islamiste. L’auteur met en lumière les spécificités propres à chaque génération, comment les acteurs nationalistes kurdes reconfigurent leur discours et leur stratégie par rapport à l’État central irakien, en passant du pankurdisme à l’autonomisme, puis au fédéralisme. L’auteur fait une grande part aux développements actuels de la question liés à l’impasse dans laquelle se trouve l’Irak, État failli et corrompu, déchiré par la violence des milices et le sectarisme de ses dirigeants. L’intérêt particulier de ce livre est qu’il se penche sur le cas des générations successives d’islamistes kurdes. Le salafisme kurde dans ses variantes quiétiste et jihadiste a connu plusieurs transformations, passant d’un discours « d’islamisation » de la question kurde, suivi à l’inverse de la « kurdistanisation » de la question islamiste. La seconde génération adhère, quant à elle, au discours d’Al-Qaïda, dont le Kurdistan d’Irak a été le fief au Moyen-Orient, marquant ainsi le passage à l’internationalisation du jihadisme sans référence kurde. L’auteur souligne l’inquiétant engouement pour Daech d’une jeunesse désœuvrée et radicalisée via les réseaux sociaux. Avec un certain recul, il montre l’échec de la formule fédérale et en définitive celle de l’État irakien, tout en soulignant les fragilités d’un Kurdistan irakien très fragmenté. Mis en place en 1921 par les Britanniques, l’État irakien, a été créé en excluant les Kurdes. Avec la chute de Saddam Hussein en 2003, ces derniers ont activement pris part à la refonte de ses institutions afin de garantir une coexistence pacifique. Situation paradoxale, à mesure que les Kurdes prennent part à la reconstruction de l’Irak, ils réaffirment leur volonté d’indépendance. Devenu un acteur incontournable dans l’échiquier national et régional, le gouvernement régional du Kurdistan irakien est un partenaire crédible pour lequel l’indépendance est une question de temps et d’opportunité. Mais derrière l’apparente prospérité liée au boom pétrolier se cachent de profondes vulnérabilités aussi bien politiques que socioéconomiques. 

mardi 9 juillet 2019

EURAMES Info Service 27/2019



CONFERENCES
1. 2 nd Annual Conference of Casablanca Seminars: "Tolerance in Mediterranean Societies: History, Ideas and Institutions", Casablanca, 11-13 July 2019
2. New-Med Conference: “Arms Control in and Beyond the Middle East”, Tehran, 16 July 2019
3. Colloque international : « Les établissements scolaires privés musulmans : une offre éducationelle comme les autres ? », Campus Saint Jean-D’Angély Nice, 7-8 novembre 2019
4. 8 th Biennial Hamad Bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art: “The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art,” Doha, 10-11 November 2019
5. Colloque international : « Dynamique des langues, des discours et des cultures en contexte méditerranéen », Tlemcen, 11-12 novembre 2019
6. International Conference: “Enriching Afro-Iberian Cultural Heritage: Current Trends on Culture, Religion and Language”, IMF-CSIC, Barcelona, 14-15 November 2019
7. Conference: "About Life Paths that Call to Writing in the Modern Arab World", University of Lille, 20- 21 November 2019
8. Colloque International : « Ces trajectoires qui appellent l'écriture dans les mondes arabes actuels », Université de Lille, 20-21 novembre 2019
9. Roundtable Workshop: “Post-Sectarian Politics? The Transformation of Sectarian Political Identities in the Middle East”, University of Cambridge, 24 January 2020
10. Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies Third Annual Conference: “Urban Islam: Muslim Minorities, Identity and Tradition in West Asian, South Asian, and African Cities”, University of London, 19 February 2020
11. International Workshop: “Heroes, Heroizations and Heroisms in Modern Iranian Culture”, Freiburg University, 20-21 February 2020
 12. Conference: “’Acts of Excommunication’ in the Late Antique and Early Islamicate Middle East”, University of Leiden, 12-13 March 2020
13. Global Conference on Women and Gender: “Gender, Politics and Everyday Life: Power, Resistance and Representation”, Christopher Newport University, 19-21 March 2020
14. International Conference: “Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean“, Université Toulouse, 26-27 March 2020
15. Conférence des « Doctorants arabes dans les universités occidentales », Doha, 28-30 mars 2020
16. 3 rd International Congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon (PLURIEL): “Islam and Otherness”, Beirut, 14-15 April 2020
 17. Muslim Studies Program 13th Annual Conference: “Islam, Environmental Science, and Conservation”, Michigan State University, 16-17 April 2020
18. Workshop: „Sharḥ, Tafsīr, and Ḥāshiya. Form, Function and Context of Pre-Modern CommentaryWriting in Arabic”, University of Zurich, 15-16 June 2020
 19. 13th Symposium Syriacum / 11th Congress of Arab Christian Studies, Paris, 6-11 July 2020
20. Contributions to the Session “Ethnic Diversity and Spatial Segregation; Cities in Motion in the World of Islam” at the European Association for Urban History Conference, Antwerp, 2-5 September 2020

 POSITIONS

21. PhD Position for a Project on Egyptian Artists Living Abroad, Ghent University
22. Rosalynd Franklin Fellowship on Islamic Thought & Culture, Faculty of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Groningen
 23. Visiting Al-Qasimi Professor in Islamic Studies, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
24. Post-Doc Position in Human and Social Sciences, Paris
25. Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Islamic Rational Theology / Philosophy (kalām / falsafa), Aixen-Provence
 26. Humanities Research Fellowships for the Study of the Arab World, NYU Abu Dhabi
27. Assistant Professor (Four-Year Position) in Sociology, American University Cairo
28. Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Islamic Studies, Macalester College, Saint Paul (Minnesota)
29. Scholarships for Historical Researchers on Western Asia and the Islamic World (2020-2021), Princeton

OTHER INFORMATION

30. Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants, Max Weber Foundation
31. 4 bourses de Master 2 et une allocation doctorale pour l’année universeritaire 2019-20, La Fondation de l’Islam de France
32. The Richard Gillespie Meditarranean Prize for Early Career Researchers
33. Appel à contribution : « La pratique du graffiti dans le contexte maghrébin les voix de l’underground » pour un numéro thématique d’« Insaniyat »
34. Contributions for Journal "Afghanistan", Edinburgh University Press
35. Call for Papers: “Mediation, Subjectivities, and Digital Geographies of Affect” for the “Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication”
 36. Contributions to Edited Volume: “Egypt in Focus: Creativity in Adversarial Contexts”
37. Call for Papers for “YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies”
38. Contributions to Edited Volume on “Pre-Colonial Sahara: Societies in Archipelagos”
 39. Appel à contribution : dossier « Le fait urbain en Algérie : nouvelles perspectives de recherche »
40. Contributions to Edited Volume on “Moroccan Peregrinations: Construction, Transmission and Circulation of Islamic Knowledge (18th -21st Centuries)”
41. Appel à contribution pour le MIDÈO 36 (2021) : « Iğtihād et taqlīd dans l’islam sunnite et šīʿite »
42. Database for Experts on Social Policy in the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA)
43. Online Resources: New Publication of the "Gulf Labour Markets, Migration and Population (GLMM) Programme"

CONFERENCES
1.      2 nd Annual Conference of Casablanca Seminars: "Tolerance in Mediterranean Societies: History, Ideas and Institutions", Casablanca, 11-13 July 2019
The second edition of Casablanca Seminars goes on with its aim of understanding of and among traditions to examine the fountains of tolerance in especially Islamic contexts from theological, philosophical, historical, socio-anthropological and institutionally juristic-legal perspectives. Comparisons with non-Islamic traditions, with which Muslim majority or minority societies interact, are also studied. See program at https://www.resetdoc.org/event/program-casablanca/
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2.      New-Med Conference: “Arms Control in and Beyond the Middle East”, Tehran, 16 July 2019 Saeed Khatibzadeh (IPIS) and Lorenzo Kamel (University of Turin/IAI) are co-organizing this conference. Leading experts from various Middle Eastern and European countries will look into the security challenges and conflict dynamics in the MENA region. See program at https://www.new-med.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/NewMed_190716-Iran.pdf
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 3. Colloque international : « Les établissements scolaires privés musulmans : une offre éducationelle comme les autres ? », Campus Saint Jean-D’Angély Nice, 7-8 novembre 2019
Dans la perspective de ce colloque, il s’agit d’établir un état des lieux de la situation des établissements scolaires privés musulmans à partir d’une approche croisée avec des chercheurs et des acteurs du terrain (familles, personnels enseignants, responsables académiques et associatifs…). Plusieurs axes composent les orientations pluridisciplinaires en proposant de questionner une intrication des multiples enjeux éducatifs, sociaux, religieux, et politiques pour envisager une approche comparative à l’échelle nationale et internationale. Deadline for abstracts: 10 September 2019. Information: https://etprimus.sciencesconf.org/
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4. 8 th Biennial Hamad Bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art: “The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art,” Doha, 10-11 November 2019 Registration is open. See program at http://islamicartdoha.org/2019-symposium/program/
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5. Colloque international : « Dynamique des langues, des discours et des cultures en contexte méditerranéen », Tlemcen, 11-12 novembre 2019
 La problématique centrale de ce colloque s’articule autour de trois concepts-clés de nature interdisciplinaire et polysémique: « Langue », « Discours » et « Culture ». Tlemcen Laboratoire DYMANDIMED et centrales, nous ouvriront la voie à une analyse portant sur la question des échanges entre les deux rives de la Méditerranée, Nord/Sud et Sud/Nord, en termes de métissage, de brassage humain et culturel, d’interculturalité, de dialogisme et d’altérité. Les disciplines concernées sont principalement le domaine des sciences des textes littéraires, des sciences du langage et de la didactique. Deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2019. Information: https://faclettre.univtlemcen.dz/assets/uploads/DOCUMENTS/collogues/2019/11-11-2019-CI-dynamique.pdf
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 6. International Conference: “Enriching Afro-Iberian Cultural Heritage: Current Trends on Culture, Religion and Language”, IMF-CSIC, Barcelona, 14-15 November 2019 The starting point for this conference is the need to make visible the strategies used by cultural, religious and linguistic African minorities to express themselves in current Iberian societies. Deadline for abstracts: 4 October 2019. Information: https://www.imf.csic.es/index.php/investigacion/identidades-socialespluriculturalidad/identidades-sociales-otros-aspectos
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7. Conference: "About Life Paths that Call to Writing in the Modern Arab World", University of Lille, 20-21 November 2019 How do different paths of life, in the modern Arab world, act as a catalyst for writing? Three axes of communication are proposed: "Custodial paths and writings in the modern Arab world", "Life paths of foreigners in Arab countries: the end of the travel story and of post-orientalism?", and "Arab life paths in foreign Arab countries: the writings of new exiles in the Arab world". Deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2019. Information: https://colloquecestrajectoires.univ-lille.fr/en/static5/call-for-papers
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 8. Colloque International : « Ces trajectoires qui appellent l'écriture dans les mondes arabes actuels », Université de Lille, 20-21 novembre 2019 En se focalisant sur la notion même de « trajectoire », le présent colloque se propose de prendre un angle d’approche spécifique qui vise à sortir des classifications habituelles, tant de fois sollicitées, de l’autobiographie, de la thématique des voyageurs en pays arabes ou de celle des écritures de l’exil, jusque-là, majoritairement à destination de l’Occident. Etc. Deadline for abstracts: 31 July 2019. Information: https://colloquecestrajectoires.univ-lille.fr/static5/appel-a-communication
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 9. Roundtable Workshop: “Post-Sectarian Politics? The Transformation of Sectarian Political Identities in the Middle East”, University of Cambridge, 24 January 2020 The objective of this workshop is to bring together scholars and specialists to offer comparative perspectives on the evolution of sectarian politics, including modes of resistance and re-signification in the Middle East and, through comparative analysis, in other parts of the Muslim world. We aim to produce a special journal issue of scholarly research developed from papers presented at the workshop as a well as a short podcast series. Deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2019. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2019/05/01/call-for-papers-post-sectarianpolitics-in-the-middle-east-university-of-cambridge
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10. Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies Third Annual Conference: ‘Urban Islam: Muslim Minorities, Identity and Tradition in West Asian, South Asian, and African Cities’, University of London, 19 February 2020 We welcome research that focuses on all Muslim communities, including Sunni, Shiite, Sufi, those of subdenominations and of different schools of thought, jurisprudence and theology; and adherents of Muslim movements having a prominent communal identity and living as minorities in Islamic cities. Deadline for abstracts: 4 October 2019. Information: http://ciwas.net/upcoming-events-2/
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11. International Workshop: “Heroes, Heroizations and Heroisms in Modern Iranian Culture”, Freiburg University, 20-21 February 2020 We welcome abstracts that engage from a social and cultural science perspective with individual or collective heroes, narratives of heroizations or configurations of heroisms in the Iranian culture since the late 19th century. Proposals are open to early career scholars at post-graduate and post-doctoral levels from any disciplinary background within the arts, humanities and social sciences. Deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2019. Information: https://www.sfb948.uni-freiburg.de/de/aktuell/calls/heroes-heroizations-and-heroisms-inmodern-iranian-culture-historiography.html?page=1
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12. Conference: “Acts of Excommunication in the Late Antique and Early Islamicate Middle East”, University of Leiden, 12-13 March 2020 This conference aims to bring together both senior and junior scholars to present research which illuminates the dynamics implicit in the act of excommunication and associated practices: ostracism, anathema, and other forms of religio-social exclusion, among the major religious communities of the Islamicate world, 600-1200 CE: including various Christian and Jewish denominations, Sunni, Shiʿi, ‘Khārijī’ and other groups within Islam; Zoroastrians and other relevant groups. Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2019. Information: https://emco.hcommons.org/events/event/cfp-acts-of-excommunication-in-the-late-antiqueand-early-islamicate-middle-east-march-12-13-2020-leiden-university/
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13. Global Conference on Women and Gender: “Gender, Politics and Everyday Life: Power, Resistance and Representation”, Christopher Newport University, 19-21 March 2020 This interdisciplinary conference brings together participants from all academic fields to engage in wideranging conversations on gender and politics around the world. We encourage an expansive understanding of political action and expression, inspired by Carol Hanisch’s essay, “The Personal is Political,” which sees all relationships of power as political and connects women’s experiences, self-expression, and values to their lives as political actors and subjects. Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2019. Information: http://cnu.edu/gcwg/
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14. International Conference: “Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean“, Université Toulouse, 26-27 March 2020 Historical, mythological, ethnographic, visual, literary, cinematic, and intermedial approaches are all welcome provided that they define and articulate a concept of hospitality, its relation with memory, and the con-frontations and reunions that substantiate the emergence and deployment of new forms of commonality within the Mediterranean space. Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2019. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/4083973/re-membering-hospitalitymediterranean-international-conference
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15. Conférence des « Doctorants arabes dans les universités occidentales », Doha, 28-30 mars 2020 Cette conférence, qui se tient dans le monde arabe, offrira également à ces étudiants l’opportunité de se familiariser avec les agendas de la recherche dans cette région et contribuera à leur mise en réseau, tant professionnelle qu’au niveau de la recherche, avec les académiciens des universités de la région. Deadline for abstracts: 30 July 2019. Information: https://www.carep-paris.org/evenement/conferences/appel-a-contribution-conference-desdoctorants-arabes-dans-les-universites-occidentales/

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16. 3 rd International Congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon (PLURIEL): “Islam and Otherness”, Beirut, 14-15 April 2020
The conference aims to address this societal movement from the perspective of Islam and beyond identitybased resistance. It will thus focus on how Islam can be considered a ʻresource’ (Jullien) in order to approach the other in the globalized world. In this context, what is the other's specific thought that is being expressed to ground and support the dynamics of postmodernity? Etc. Deadline for abstracts: 10 September 2019. Information: https://pluriel.fuce.eu/call-for-papers-3rd-plurielinternational-congress-islam-and-otherness/?lang=en
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17. Muslim Studies Program 13th Annual Conference: “Islam, Environmental Science, and Conservation”, Michigan State University, 16-17 April 2020
This conference aims to foster understanding of the nexus between Islam, environmental science, and conservation. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not restricted to, the nexus of Islam and the following: environmental sustainability; gender and the environment; sustainable development; ecology; environmental conservation; natural resource management; climate change; etc. Deadline for abstracts: 15 August 2019. Information: https://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu/about/conference/
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18. Workshop: „Sharḥ, Tafsīr, and Ḥāshiya. Form, Function and Context of Pre-Modern Commentary-Writing in Arabic”, University of Zurich, 15-16 June 2020
This workshop will focus on two principal aspects of the study of commentary and commentating practices: (1.) the techniques of commentary-writing; and (2.) its audience and reception. We invite papers dealing with commentaries written in Arabic any time before roughly the 15th century, belonging to any genre (philosophy, theology, literature, medicine, sciences, etc.). Deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2019. Information: https://networks.hnet.org/node/8330/discussions/4255143/cfp-sharḥ-tafsīr-and-ḥāshiya-workshop-form-function-and-context

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19. 13th Symposium Syriacum / 11th Congress of Arab Christian Studies, Paris, 6-11 July 2020 Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2019. Information: https://www.etudessyriaques.org/xiiie-symposium-syriacum-et-xie-congres-d-etudes-arabeschretiennes/
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 20. Contributions to the Session “Ethnic Diversity and Spatial Segregation; Cities in Motion in the World of Islam” at the European Association for Urban History Conference, Antwerp, 2-5 September 2020
 The session investigates changing patterns of spatial segregation and ethnic diversity in cities in the Islamic worlds and points at the resilience or changing nature of segregation, the reasons behind it, the link with migration flows and the social, political, cultural and economic organization of city life. Deadline for abstracts: open from 1 June 2019 onwards. Information: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/eauh2020/sessions/sessions-overview/sessiontheme/migration/ (M-MIG-4)
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POSITIONS
21. PhD Position for a Project on Egyptian Artists Living Abroad, Ghent University
The Section Middle East Studies is looking for a PhD-student to conduct a research on Egyptian artists who left their country for living in Europe and Northern America after 2013. The focus of the project is socioanthropological. The inquiry will include the collection of relevant materials, participant observation, interviews and possibly archive work. Deadline for applications: 14 August 2019. Information: https://www.ugent.be/en/work/vacancies/scientific/phd-student-q5pzj
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22. Rosalynd Franklin Fellowship on Islamic Thought & Culture, Faculty of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Groningen
This is a position for a female academic in the field of Islamic Thought & Culture. We are specifically interested in scholars whose expertise is on ethics, philosophy, Islamic debates on modernity & secularism. Deadline for application: 29 August 2019. Information: https://www.rug.nl/about-us/work-with-us/jobopportunities/?details=00347-02S000730P
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23. Visiting Al-Qasimi Professor in Islamic Studies, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter This temporary (3 or 6 month) post is available from 1 October 2020 until 31 March 2021.
 The post holder is required to carry out research, and do some teaching in Islamic Studies (broadly conceived) and participate fully in the activities of the Centre for the Study of Islam, a research centre within the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. Deadline for applications: 5 August 2019. Information: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BTO210/visiting-alqasimi-professor-in-islamic-studies
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24. Post-Doc Position in Human and Social Sciences, Paris The candidate must hold a doctorate in one of the social science disciplines. She/he should preferably have already worked on the theme of networks of informal and cross-border economies. A good knowledge of the geographical area of North Africa and at least a first field experience in one of the countries studied is required. She/he must have excellent writing skills in French. Knowledge of English is required and Arabic is highly desirable. Deadline for applications: 18 July 2019.
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25. Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Islamic Rational Theology / Philosophy (kalām / falsafa), Aix-en-Provence Required skills: specialisation in Arabic philosophy/philology/rational theology (PhD level); speaking, writing and oral comprehension of French and English; linguistic skills in Arabic (reading, editing ancient texts); experience in drafting and publishing scientific articles; knowledge of new technologies: research blog on the platform Hypothèses, knowledge of the word-processor Classical Text Editor.
Deadline for applications: 31 August 2019. Information: http://iremam.cnrs.fr/IMG/pdf/anr-gaia_2019-post-doc_fr-en.pdf
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 26. Humanities Research Fellowships for the Study of the Arab World, NYU Abu Dhabi While open to scholars working in all areas of the Humanities, the program aims in particular to build a center of outstanding research capacity in areas of the Humanities that are relevant for the study of the Arabic world, its rich intellectual, religious, and scientific history, its cultural and artistic heritage as expressed in traditional and new media, and its interaction with other cultures in the past and present. Deadline for applications: 1 October 2019.
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27. Assistant Professor (Four-Year Position) in Sociology, American University Cairo Requirements: A PhD in sociology or a related discipline with the ability to teach and publish within the discipline of sociology. Commitment to teaching and engagement of students, as well as service to the university, particularly the sociology program and the department, are necessary, as well as an active research agenda. Priority will be given to applications that are submitted by 1 November 2019. Information: https://careers.insidehighered.com/job/1587207/sociology-fall-2020/
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28. Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Islamic Studies, Macalester College, Saint Paul (Minnesota) A PhD is required by time of appointment (Fall 2020).
The successful candidate will be expected to teach a broad range of courses in classical and modern Islam and in the study of religion more broadly. The field of specialty within Islamic Studies is open. We will also consider the candidate’s ability to contribute to other on-campus programs. Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2019.
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29. Scholarships for Historical Researchers on Western Asia and the Islamic World (2020-2021), Princeton Members in the School are appointed for either one term (first term 21 September to 18 December, second term 11 January to 9 April) or for two terms, amounting to a full academic year. Eligibility requirements include a substantial record of publication and a PhD awarded by no later than 31 December 2018.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2019. Information: https://www.hs.ias.edu/mem_announcement
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 OTHER INFORMATION

30. Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants, Max Weber Foundation
The travel grants are meant to improve the career opportunities for humanities and social science academics in their qualification phase. Applications may be filed by highly qualified humanities and social science academics of any nationality (highest degree must be at least a Master) who have already published and can present a research plan. Applications for projects related to research priorities pursued by the Foundation’s institutes/branches will take precedence. Deadline for applications: 4 October 2019.
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31. 4 bourses de Master 2 et une allocation doctorale pour l’année universeritaire 2019-20, La Fondation de l’Islam de France
Au regard de ces grandes orientations, la Fondation soutiendra les chercheurs dont les travaux permettent de mieux cerner les problématiques déclinées selon quatre axes relevant de l’islamologie fondamentale et appliquée. Une excellente maîtrise des langues arabe, turque ou / et persane sera jugée indispensable au soutien par la FIF de toute candidature.
Deadline for applications: 17 July 2019. Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/42213
 32. The Richard Gillespie Meditarranean Prize for Early Career Researchers Mediterranean Politics is pleased to announce the launch of the Richard Gillespie Mediterranean Prize for the best research article on the contemporary social and political dynamics of the Mediterranean region published in the Journal by an early career researcher.
The winning article will be selected by an international Prize Committee appointed by the Editorial Board. The winner will earn a £250 prize and a one-year free subscription to the journal.
 33. Appel à contribution : « La pratique du graffiti dans le contexte maghrébin les voix de l’underground » pour un numéro thématique de « Insaniyat » Ce numéro d’articuler les contributions autour des aspects suivants, sans forcément s’y limiter : histoire et caractéristiques de la pratique du graffiti dans le contexte maghrébin ; auteurs, supports et sites de dissémination de cette pratique socio-langagière ; langues et signes mobilisés dans la pratique du graffiti ; graffiti face aux campagnes d’effacement ; etc.
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34. Contributions for Journal "Afghanistan", Edinburgh University Press The journal seeks submissions on the variegated Islamic cultures and practices of Afghanistan and its interconnected regions (Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan). Papers on Shi'i (Imami and Isma'ili) and (tariqa and non-tariqa) Sufi traditions are particularly welcome. Information: http://www.euppublishing.com/loi/afg. Submission guidelines at: https://www.euppublishing.com/page/afg/submissions
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35. Call for Papers: “Mediation, Subjectivities, and Digital Geographies of Affect” for the “Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication”
This call for papers responds to the affective turn in media and cultural studies and addresses the relative inattention to the mediation of emotions and affect in the Middle East. It thus invites contributions which investigate the relation between digital technologies and the politics and cultures of emotions and affectivities in the Middle East, especially papers which problematize translocal and transnational mediations. Deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2019. Information: https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/38607?fbclid=IwAR1zxOMTVXKJR4tJAdrdznWNOMmT78l7FaUG8ba5c GnEPjE1jn8_Nbjs4Ro

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36. Contributions to Edited Volume: “Egypt in Focus: Creativity in Adversarial Contexts” The current socio-political situation in Egypt raises fundamental questions about the state of the arts and the future of literature and culture in the country.
 This special volume examines the complex paradoxical predicament of a seemingly irrepressible expressive context under the thralls of an imposed gloomy hush. It also addresses how individuals and institutions navigate the inflicted muteness through different strategies. For artists, writers, and intellectuals, the revolution is an unfinished ongoing project that still fuels their art and praxis. Deadline for full papers: 1 August 2019.
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37. Call for Articles for “YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies” This journal is accepting submissions of original articles, 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 fields. Deadline for full papers: 4 August 2019. Information: https://en.iae.org.tr/Content/YILLIK-Annual-ofIstanbul-Studies-No-8-Call-for-Papers/150
 38. Contributions to Edited Volume on “Pre-Colonial Sahara: Societies in Archipelagos” Our call for papers seeks to explore this topic by inviting historians, archaeologists and specialists from other disciplines to examine the coherence of a Saharan cultural space, between the Early Middle Ages – when Islam emerged in these regions – and the 19th century, on the eve of modern colonial upsurges. Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2019.
 39. Appel à contribution : dossier « Le fait urbain en Algérie : nouvelles perspectives de recherche » Ce dossier a comme ambition d’impulser et de rendre visible les recherches sur les villes algériennes en privilégiant les contributions qui explorent de nouveaux champs et apportent des savoirs actualisés sur la question urbaine. Cela passe par certains déplacements de l’analyse et un renouvellement des problématiques. Alors que la question des processus de fabrication de la ville a longtemps été centrale, l’analyse des pratiques urbaines en constitue un renouvellement en même temps qu’un prolongement qu’il s’agit de déployer en mettant en perspective différentes dimensions. Deadline for full papers: 1 October 2019.
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40. Contributions to Edited Volume on “Moroccan Peregrinations: Construction, Transmission and Circulation of Islamic Knowledge (18th -21st Centuries)” This volume explores Islamic knowledge in a context of movement to and from Morocco with its particular environment, captured in its geography and history as a producer, a receiver and an exporter of knowledge. The analysis of processes which are often simultaneous, of institutionalization and circulation are questioned from the study of literature and documents to ethnographic observations including the decryption of virtual contents.
Deadline for abstracts : 1 December 2019. Information: https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/12572
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 41. Appel à contribution pour le MIDÈO 36 (2021) : « Iğtihād et taqlīd dans l’islam sunnite et šīʿite » Le dossier de ce MIDÉO se propose d’approfondir les deux logiques à la lumière du patrimoine islamique. L’histoire de la pensée islamique montre que l’on a établi en effet des distinctions entre les principes fondamentaux (uṣūl) et les branches du fiqh(furūʿ), que l’on a élaboré des relations avec des notions connexes (iḫtilāf, ittibāʿ,iǧmāʿ, tarǧīḥ), que l’on a évalué de manière différente taqlīd (ḥarām, maḏmūm,mubāḥ), ou encore établi des distinctions de degrés d’iǧtihād.
 Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2020. Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/36891
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42. Database for Experts on Social Policy in the Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) The MENA Social Policy (MENASP) Network based at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom is updating its database of experts in this field. See https://chaiml.shinyapps.io/menaro_database/. If you want to be included, answer the survey at https://bathreg.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/menasp-expertssurvey-2019.
Enquiries should be sent to menasp_network@bath.ac.uk.
 43. Online Resources: New Publication of the "Gulf Labour Markets, Migration and Population (GLMM) Programme" The programme provides data, analyses, and recommendations contributing to the improvement of understanding and management of Gulf labour migration, population, and labour markets, engaging with and respecting the viewpoints of all stakeholder. See: http://gulfmigration.org/glmm-database/demographic-and-economic-module/ and the latest publication "Working and Living Conditions of Low-Income Migrant Workers in the Hospitality and Construction Sectors in Qatar" by Philippe Fargues, Nasra M. Shah, and Imco Brouwer: http://gulfmigration.org/media/pubs/rp/GLMM_EN_2019_RR01.pdf