CONFERENCES
1.
International Conference
of the Academy of Exile: “Dire Times: Critical Thinking Then and Now”, Berlin
Max Planck Society, 16-17 January 2020
2.
7e Colloque annuel du Cercle des Chercheurs
sur le Moyen-Orient : « Images et imaginaires au Moyen-Orient et en
Afrique du Nord », EHESS, Paris, 23-24 janvier 2020
3.
Workshop:
"Historiography of the Perception of Islam through Manuscripts, Korans and
their Displacement", Naples, 11 February 2020
4.
International Conference
on Qur'anic Studies, Tehran, 24-25 February 2020
5.
Conference of the
Islamicate Graduate Student Association: "Who Speaks for Islam?:
Approaches to Authority within the Academy and Beyond", Chapel Hill, North
Carolina, 29 February 2020
6.
7th Annual
Workshop of New Directions in Palestine Studies: “Who Owns Palestine?”, Brown
University, 6-7 March 2020
7.
Workshop:
"Western
Intervention in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings: Political Containment, Neoliberalism,
and Imperial Legacies", University of Oxford, 10-11 March 2020
8.
Panel on “National and
Regional Dimension of Mediterranean Studies", during the Annual Meeting of
the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Chicago, 19-22 March
2020
9.
Institute of Islamic
Studies, McGill University Graduate Student Symposium, 26-27 March 2020
10. Islam Section of the AAR Midwest Regional
Conference, Muncie, Indiana, 27-28 March 2020
11. 6th Conference on Sustainable Tourism in Asia: “Tourism for
Peace and Sustainability” (COSTA 2020), Osaka City, 27-28 March 2020
12. 26th Annual Conference of the Economic Research Forum (ERF)
on “Sustainable Development Goals as a Framework for MENA’s Development
Policy“, Luxor, 29-31 March 2020
13. International and Interdisciplinary Conference: “Cultural and Critical
Studies“, Doğuş University, Istanbul, 16-17 April 2020
14. Conference “Digital Humanities in Arabic”, Doha Institute for Graduate
Studies, Qatar, 20-21 April 2020
15. Seminar: "Internationalism, Anti-Authoritarianism and Anarchism in
the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean (1860 - 1920)", UCLouvain, Belgium,
21-22 April 2020
16. 8th International Symposium on the
History of Cartography “Mapping the Ottoman Realm: Travelers, Cartographers and
Archaeologist”, German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Istanbul, 21-23 April
2020
17. Conference of the Collaborative Research Group
Africa in the Indian Ocean: “New Gulf Streams – Middle East and Eastern Africa
Intersected”, Lisbon, 23-24 April 2020
18. Early Career Academics Symposium in Honour of Fred Halliday, Middle East
Centre, London School of Economics, 30 April 2020
19. 10th International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in
Society with Special Focus on: "Conservation, Environmentalism, and
Stewardship – Ecological Spirituality as Common Ground", University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, 30 April – 1 May 2020
20. Conference: "Migration via the Sea or Desert: Recourse to Religious
Figures in the Migratory Dynamics of Africa", Université Alassane
Ouattara, Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire, 7-8 May 2020
21. International Conference on Middle Eastern
Studies: “Conflicts and Struggles of the Contemporary”, Altınbaş University
Istanbul, 14-15 May 2020
22. International Conference: “Crossroads: European Cultural Diplomacy and
Eastern Christianity in Syria and Palestine: A Connected History in Late
Ottoman Times and the British Mandate”, Thessaloniki, 14-15 May 2020
23. 11th Annual Conference of the “Project on Middle East
Political Science (POMEPS)“, George Washington University, 21-22 May 2020
24. International Conference: "The Outsiders' Arabic: from Peripheral
to Diaspora Arabic Varieties", University of Bucharest, 25-27 May 2020
25. Conference: “News Media in the Middle
East: What is it Good for?”, University of Oslo,
26-27 May 2020
26. 23rd Annual International Congress of the Mediterranean
Studies Association, University of Gibraltar, 27-30 May 2020
27. International Conference: “The Discourse of
Anger in the Arab World since 2011”, Grenoble Alpes University, 28-29 May 2020
28. Annual Meeting of the French Colonial
Historical Society: “Francophone Borderlands”, Buffalo, NY, 28-31 May 2020
29. Workshop: "Making Sense of Climate Change – Models, Cosmologies and
Practices from North Africa and the Middle East", Leibniz Zentrum Moderner
Orient, Berlin, 8-9 June 2020
30. Workshop: “Travelling Practices and the
Emergence of Tourism in the Middle East (16th-20th
Centuries), Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna, 12-13
June 2020
31. 24th Conference of the Comité International des Études
Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes, Thessaloniki, 23-27 June 2020
32. International Conference: “Africa and the
Middle East and North Africa: Understanding Paradoxical Outcomes of
Contemporary Transformations”, Ifrane (Morocco), 23-25 June 2020
33. Roundtable on "Decolonizing Islamicate Manuscript Studies"
during the Annual Meeting of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies
(BRISMES), University of Kent, Canterbury, 29 June – 1 July 2020
34. 7th Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, Centre for
Visual Arts and Research, Nicosia, 2-4 July 2020
35.
Congrès International des Sociologues de Langue Francaise :
« GTO4 – Sociétés arabes en mouvement – La société moral
(in)justifiée… », Tunis, 6-10 julliet 2020
36. "Future Past: Memory and Imaginal Politics in Conflicts and for
Conflicts", Amsterdam, 14-15 July 2020
37. Conference of the International Association for the Study of Arabia
(IASA): “Seminar for Arabian Studies“, Cordoba, 15-18 July 2020
38. Gulf Research Meeting (GRM), University of Cambridge, 21-23 July 2020
39. Panel on “Migrants, Law and the State in and beyond Europe” during the
Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists
(EASA), Lisbon, 21-24 July 2020
40. Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology
(COMELA), American College of Greece, Athens, 2-5 September 2020
41. Panel on "Ottoman Cultural Mobilities: 19th Century
Modes of Travel, Collecting and Display", within the "International
Conference of European Urban Historians Network", Antwerp, 2-5 September
2020
42. Conference of the Working Group “Ethnology of Reiligion“ of the
International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, 6-9 September 2020
43. Fifth Arabic Natural Language Processing
Workshop (WANLP 2020), Barcelona, 13-18 September 2020
44. International Conference: “An African
Metropolis: Cairo and its African Hinterland in the Middle Ages”, IFAO, Cairo,
15-17 September 2020
45. 27th International Congress of the
German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), University of Osnabrück, 24-26
September 2020
46. 3rd ANU Religion Conference:
“Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”, Australian National University,
Canberra, 8-10 December 2020
47. Conference: “Rethinking Narratives of China and
the Middle East – The Silk Roads and Beyond”, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, 8-10 April 2021
POSITIONS
48. Grants for Three-years PhD Program at the German Institute of Global and
Area Studies (GIGA) (Focus MENA Region), Hamburg
49. “Global Professorships 2020“ – Funding of Scholars in Humanities and
Social Sciences Based Abroad to Do Research at UK Universities
50. PhD Studentship in the Research Project "Colophons, Community, and
the Making of the Christian Middle East, 1500-1900", University of Oxford
51. Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Middle Eastern Diasporic
Literatures and Cultures, York University
52. Assistant Professor in Gender, Post-Colonialism, and the Islamic World,
York University
53. One-year Post-doctoral Fellowship for Research on the History of Gender
Studies (2020-2021), Tel Aviv University
54. Four Post-doctoral Fellowships for Historical Studies (2020-2021), Tel Aviv
University
55. Faculty Positions for Middle Eastern History & Arabic Language plus
others, Gulf University for Science & Technology (GUST), Kuwait
56. Postdoctoral Researcher in Political Sciences,
Sociology and Economics, Division of Social Science, New York University
(Global), Abu Dhabi
57. Postdoctoral Fellowship in North African
Studies, 2020-2021, Yale University, MacMillan Center
58. Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics of
the Middle East / North Africa, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
59. One Year Fellowships for Researchers at the Pre-doctoral, Postdoctoral,
and Junior Faculty Level for Research Related to Middle Eastern Governance and
Public Policy, Harvard
Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA
60. One-year Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern
or Early Modern Middle Eastern History, Reed College, Portland
61. Lecturer in Sociology of Islam and Muslim
Societies, Australian National University, Canberra
62. Senior Lecturer in Politics and International
Relations of the Arabic Speaking Middle East, Australian National University,
Canberra
OTHER INFORMATION
63. MA in Islamic & West Asian Studies (1 Year), Royal Holloway
University of London
64. Three-months Internship with the Moroccan
Institute for Policy Analysis, Rabat
65. Summer School: “Critical Muslim Studies:
Decolonial Struggles and Liberatiion Theologies”, Granada, 15-19 June 2020
66. Articles for “Labors of Need: Lives of African
and Asian Workers in the Middle East” for Special Issue of the Journal “Mashriq
& Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies”
67. Articles on Research Topic “Media Populism: How
Media Populism and Inflating Fear Empowers Populist Politicians“ (Focus Egypt
etc.) for Journals “Frontiers in Communication – Political
Communication“ and „Frontiers in Sociology – Political Communication“
68. Article for Edited Book on “International Response to Domestic Violence
in the Middle East“ (Rutledge Publication)
69. Monographs and Edited Books on the MENA Region for the Peter Lang’s
Series “Global Politics”
70. New Book Series: "Ecclesiastica Ottomanica"
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Best regards,
Guenter Meyer, Centre for Research on the Arab World
(CERAW), University of Mainz, in cooperation with the University of Sharjah
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CONFERENCES
1.
International Conference
of the Academy of Exile: “Dire Times: Critical Thinking Then and Now”, Berlin
Max Planck Society, 16-17 January 2020
For program and
registration see https://www.academy-in-exile.eu/2020/01/02/the-academy-in-exiles-second-annual-conference-dire-times-critical-thinking-then-and-now/
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2.
7e Colloque annuel du Cercle des Chercheurs
sur le Moyen-Orient : « Images et imaginaires au Moyen-Orient et en
Afrique du Nord », EHESS, Paris, 23-24 janvier 2020
Voyez
le programme :
https://cerclechercheursmoyenorient.wordpress.com/2019/11/02/colloque-images-et-imaginaires-au-moyen-orient-et-en-afrique-du-nord-23-et-24-janvier-2020/
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3.
Workshop:
"Historiography of the Perception of Islam through Manuscripts, Korans and
their Displacement", Naples, 11 February 2020
The aim of this workshop
is to approach the question of the relationship between Christianity and Islam
through the study of the production, circulation and uses of Arabic
manuscripts, and mainly Korans, in the late medieval and early modern
Mediterranean Europe.
Information:
https://is-le.eu/workshop/historiography-perception-islam-manuscripts-korans-displacement/
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4.
International Conference
on Qur'anic Studies, Tehran, 24-25 February 2020
Scholars at any stage of
their careers, including early career researchers and PhD students,will present
papers on the Qur’an and its religious milieu; the reception history of the Qur’an,
from the beginnings to modern times; literary, historical-critical, and
comparative approaches to the Qur’an; etc.
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5.
Conference of the
Islamicate Graduate Student Association: "Who Speaks for Islam?:
Approaches to Authority within the Academy and Beyond", Chapel Hill, North
Carolina, 29 February 2020
Papers will be presented
that interrogate questions of authority and power. Who gets to speak for Islam
and Muslims? What landscapes of authority exist in the Islamicate world? For
example, what geographies constitute the Islamicate world? Etc.
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6.
7th Annual
Workshop of New Directions in Palestine Studies: “Who Owns Palestine?”, Brown
University, 6-7 March 2020
Papers will analyse the
past, present, and future of ownership and on what it means to “own” Palestine.
On the material level, the use and distribution of immovable property in the
context of gender, generation, and class relations will be studied.
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7.
Workshop:
"Western
Intervention in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings: Political Containment,
Neoliberalism, and Imperial Legacies", University of Oxford, 10-11 March
2020
Papers will focus on: 1.
Developments in Western humanitarianism and interventionism in the wake of the
Arab uprisings 2. The merging of development, humanitarianism and military
intervention 3. Ethnographic approaches to global discourses and policies 4.
Strategies of control, neoliberal reforms and popular discontent.
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8.
Panel on “National and
Regional Dimension of Mediterranean Studies", during the Annual Meeting of
the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Chicago, 19-22 March
2020
The contributions will
engage with literary texts from any Mediterranean literary tradition, period or
genre, while being theoretically aware of their national and regional
dimension, and of their potential for challenging canonical interpretations of
critical issues relevant to their and/or other traditions in the region.
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9.
Institute of Islamic
Studies, McGill University Graduate Student Symposium, 26-27 March 2020
Graduate students at all
stages of research and dissertation-writing related to Islam and Islamicate
communities anywhere in the world will present papers in the fields of history,
political science, and anthropology; theology, philosophy, mysticism, and
jurisprudence; Urdu, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literature.
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10. Islam Section of the AAR Midwest Regional
Conference, Muncie, Indiana, 27-28 March 2020
Papers
are invited which focus on any aspect of the Islamic tradition, including its
texts, history, or practices and on any time period and be from any
disciplinary approach, so long as the topic is capable of engaging scholars of
Islam.
Deadline for abstracts:
10 January 2020. Information:
https://sites.google.com/site/aarmidwestregion/call-for-papers
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11. 6th Conference on Sustainable Tourism in Asia: “Tourism for
Peace and Sustainability” (COSTA 2020), Osaka City, 27-28 March 2020
Through COSTA 2020 we
believe that by creating a platform for dialog of peaceful ideas for the
tourism industry, we can work together to better promote and achieve peace
through tourism. Main themes include: Cultural and Heritage Tourism: Dark
Tourism; Eco-Tourism and Geo-Tourism: Halal Tourism; Medical Tourism;
Religious Tourism; Sustainable Tourism, etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 17 January 2020.
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12. 26th Annual Conference of the Economic Research Forum (ERF)
on “Sustainable Development Goals as a Framework for MENA’s Development
Policy“, Luxor, 29-31 March 2020
See program at http://erf.org.eg/events/erf-26th-annual-conference-sustainable-development-goals-sdgs-framework-menas-development-policy/
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13. International and Interdisciplinary Conference: “Cultural and Critical
Studies“, Doğuş University, Istanbul, 16-17 April 2020
In
accordance to particular area-studies approaches, the main objective of this
conference is to stimulate an interdisciplinary, globally focused dialogue, on
the role of culture in our lives, including: Literature and Cultural Studies;
Sociology of Culture: Migration; Gender, Sexuality, and Class etc.
Deadline for
abstracts: 20 January 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/5665606/international-and-interdisciplinary-conference-cultural-and
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14. Conference “Digital Humanities in Arabic”, Doha Institute for
Graduate Studies, Qatar, 20-21 April 2020
This conference focuses on issues pretraining to the praxis of Digital
Humanities in diverse geographical contexts, countries, and cultures,
especially Arabic. The conference is very multidisciplinary by nature with the
aim of advancing the current state of knowledge for researchers in Arabic literature,
culture, media, arts, history, political science, and sociology.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2020. Information: https://socialhistoryportal.org/news/articles/309989
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15. Seminar: "Internationalism, Anti-Authoritarianism and Anarchism in
the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean (1860 - 1920)", UCLouvain, Belgium,
21-22 April 2020
The Seminar will question
why historians of radical movements have forgotten about this geographical
area; to reconstruct the history of individual or collective,
anti-authoritarian and anarchist internationalist experiences in this region;
to adopt a transnational perspective that considers travel, contacts and
exchanges between individuals and groups at the local, regional and
international levels; etc. Interventions will be in French and English.
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16. 8th International Symposium on the
History of Cartography “Mapping the Ottoman Realm: Travelers, Cartographers and
Archaeologist”, German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Istanbul, 21-23 April
2020
The symposium is open to
everyone with an interest in the cartography of the (former) Ottoman countries
during, but not limited to, the 16th to 20th centuries. The symposium will focus on two main
themes: 1) Cartography of the Ottoman Countries in Europe, Asia and Africa; 2)
Mapping Archaeological Sites, Landscapes and Excavations in the Ottoman Empire
in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
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17. Conference of the Collaborative Research Group
Africa in the Indian Ocean: “New Gulf Streams – Middle East and Eastern Africa
Intersected”, Lisbon, 23-24 April 2020
The
conference will be organised in interdisciplinary thematic panels focussing on
the interconnections between Horn of Africa & Eastern Africa societies and
the Middle East countries, with a special focus on the challenges of recent
geopolitical, religious and economic ties between these regions.
Deadline
for abstracts: 31 January 2020.
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18. Early Career Academics Symposium in Honour of Fred Halliday, Middle East
Centre, London School of Economics, 30 April 2020
The main objective will be to
facilitate the exchange of knowledge and ideas between researchers in the last
year of their PhD, or still within three years of having completed one,
undertaking research on any of the topics that Fred Halliday worked on: Greater
West Asia/the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, revolutions, historical
sociology, gender, nationalism and internationalism, historical International
Relations.
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19. 10th International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in
Society with Special Focus on: "Conservation, Environmentalism, and
Stewardship – Ecological Spirituality as Common Ground", University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, 30 April – 1 May 2020
The "Religion in
Society Research Network" comprises a conference and journal founded in
2011, exploring the role of religion and spirituality in society. Themes:
Religious Foundations; Religious Community and Socialization; Religious
Commonalities and Differences; The Politics of Religion".
Deadline for abstracts:
30 March 2020.
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20. Conference: "Migration via the Sea or Desert: Recourse to Religious
Figures in the Migratory Dynamics of Africa", Université Alassane
Ouattara, Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire, 7-8 May 2020
The conference is
focusing on the illegal migration from Africa towards Europe and Middle East.
Areas of reflection are: 1) Faith, beliefs and religious practices in the
development / maturation of the migration project; 2) Socioeconomic uses and
magico-religious experience on migration paths; 3) Religion and migratory
networks; 4) Religious treatment of the migration issue.
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21. International Conference on Middle Eastern
Studies: “Conflicts and Struggles of the Contemporary”, Altınbaş University
Istanbul, 14-15 May 2020
The
conference will focus on the role of global actors pursuing their own in the
region and analyse the intervention of regional and global actors in the
various grievances and struggles of local groups, people and communities. The
positions of the European Union and the United Nations towards these Middle
Eastern issues remain also problematic.
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22. International Conference: “Crossroads: European Cultural Diplomacy and
Eastern Christianity in Syria and Palestine: A Connected History in Late
Ottoman Times and the British Mandate”, Thessaloniki, 14-15 May 2020
The conference aims to
define and analyze how cultural diplomacy was deployed by the European powers
in interwar Palestine and Syria. It questions how these policies impacted the
cultural identification of indigenous Christians in a comparison with their fellow
Palestinian and Syrian compatriots. This conference will focus on attempts at
ideological and political domination by multiple actors, each with a diversity
of diplomatic and cultural ends.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/4316854/european-cultural-diplomacy-and-eastern-christianity-late
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23. 11th Annual Conference of the “Project on Middle East
Political Science (POMEPS)“, George Washington University, 21-22 May 2020
Papers will
focus on the politics of the contemporary Middle East. The conference will
include workshop sessions on each accepted paper, with each paper read by multiple
senior scholars in the field with an eye towards preparing them for submission
for publication.
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24. International Conference: "The Outsiders' Arabic: from Peripheral
to Diaspora Arabic Varieties", University of Bucharest, 25-27 May 2020
The papers will focus on
the following topics of interest, adjacent to Arabic dialectology: Peripheral
Arabic varieties (main topic), Diaspora Arabic varieties (main topic), Pidgin
Arabic (main topic), Language contact (main topic), Historical linguistics,
Morphology, Syntax, Phonetics and Phonology, Creolization, Sociolinguistics.
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25. Conference: “News Media in the Middle
East: What is it Good for?”, University of Oslo,
26-27 May 2020
Papers are invited that engage
with issues such as journalists as power brokers, the tensions between rights
and security, religious polarization and electoral mobilization, etc. The scope
spans from traditional news outlets to digital media and citizen journalism. The organizers will
cover travel and accommodation costs for the selected presenters.
Deadline
for abstracts: 31 January 2020. Information: Jacob Høigilt, University of Oslo,
jacobhoi@uio.no.
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26. 23rd Annual International Congress of the Mediterranean
Studies Association, University of Gibraltar, 27-30 May 2020
We are
accepting proposals for individual paper, panel discussions, and complete
sessions on all subjects related to the Mediterranean region and Mediterranean
cultures around the world from all historical periods. The official language of
the Congress is English, but we also welcome complete sessions in any
Mediterranean language.
Deadline
for abstracts: 1 February 2020.
Information: https://www.mediterraneanstudies.org/call-for-papers-2020.html
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27. International Conference: “The Discourse of
Anger in the Arab World since 2011”, Grenoble Alpes University, 28-29 May 2020
Researchers in Arabic Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Political
Communication, Psycholinguistics, Sociology, History and other related
disciplines are invited to submit proposals to this conference. We particularly
welcome interdisciplinary research that tackles any aspect of the discourse of
anger in the Arab world. Papers are invited in Arabic and French.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2020.
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28. Annual Meeting of the French Colonial
Historical Society: “Francophone Borderlands”, Buffalo, NY, 28-31 May 2020
The
papers will
consider the peripheries of the French Empire as central to understanding the
French colonial empire and the people who inhabit it, as well as the ways zones
and points of contact are particularly revealing of imperial and colonial
experiences. In addition, other aspects of overseas France and its legacies
will be considered.
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29. Workshop: "Making Sense of Climate Change – Models, Cosmologies and
Practices from North Africa and the Middle East", Leibniz Zentrum Moderner
Orient, Berlin, 8-9 June 2020
Scholars from the
humanities, social sciences and Middle Eastern studies will explore the wide
range of issues connected to climate change in the Middle East and North
Africa, for example: Which political, economic or environmental consequences
does, or will, global warming have in the region? Etc.
Information: https://www.zmo.de/Ausschreibungen/calls%20for%20papers/CfP_Making_Sense_of_Climate_Change.pdf
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30.
Workshop: “Travelling Practices and the Emergence of
Tourism in the Middle East (16th-20th Centuries),
Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna, 12-13 June 2020
This workshop will
analyse travel literature (travelogues and guidebooks) from the 16th
to the 20th centuries with regard to the practices, patterns and
significations of travel. In shifting the focus to routine and mundane aspects
of travelling, it will serve to place travel narratives in a relational
framework combining basic questions of infrastructure and transportation with
the movements and pathways of individual travellers.
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31.
24th
Conference of the Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes,
Thessaloniki, 23-27 June 2020
The aim is to provide a
platform of a high scholarly level, which will promote the knowledge and sustain
the memory of Ottoman history. Panels and individual papers will focus on the
following topics: the Ottoman Empire in the Age of Revolutions; Sources: New
Interpretations and Approaches; etc.
Information: https://www.univie.ac.at/ciepo/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/CIEPO24_1st_Circular.pdf
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32. International
Conference: “Africa and the Middle East and North Africa: Understanding
Paradoxical Outcomes of Contemporary Transformations”, Ifrane (Morocco), 23-25
June 2020
The conference aims to
interrogate the ways in which Africa and the MENA have been studied in the
interdisciplinary field of International Studies. We are particularly
interested in addressing disciplinary debates with fresh analysis of local
empirics as well as local-international connections.
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33. Roundtable on "Decolonizing Islamicate Manuscript Studies"
during the Annual Meeting of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies
(BRISMES), University of Kent, Canterbury, 29 June – 1 July 2020
The participating
scholars will critically engage with the possibilities for the decolonization
of Islamicate manuscript studies. How, and should decolonization be
operationalized in the field of Islamic manuscript studies?
Information:
https://networks.h-net.org/node/7801/discussions/5270817/brismes-2020-roundtable-call-participants-cfp-decolonizing
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34. 7th Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, Centre for
Visual Arts and Research, Nicosia, 2-4 July 2020
Papers will analyse
issues such as the impact of the late Crusades and Papal policies on relations
be-tween the Mamluk Sultanate and Cyprus or Latin Europe more generally;
Mamluk-Byzantine relations; Islamic concepts of imperial and international law
(dār al-ḥarb and beyond); European trade and diplomacy; etc.
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35.
Congrès International des Sociologues de
Langue Francaise : « GTO4 – Sociétés arabes en mouvement – La société
moral (in)justifiée… », Tunis, 6-10 julliet 2020
Notre rencontre est
ouvertes, entre autres, aux questions suivantes : La démocratie est-elle la
forme la plus adéquate à la pratique juste et bonne de la politique ? La
violence est-elle justifiable dans certaines situations et à certains moments
et quand ne l’est-elle plus ? Les économies morales (surtout celles des pauvres
et des non-affranchis) suffisent-elles à les qualifier de sujets politiques ?
Deadline for abstracts:
15 January 2020.
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36. "Future Past: Memory and Imaginal Politics in Conflicts and for Conflicts",
Amsterdam, 14-15 July 2020
We invite papers that
trace memory and commemoration within imaginal politics to highlight how future
past emerges, circulates and mobilizes. The conference focuses on future past
under authoritarian regimes across the world however, the papers with focus on
the Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus are given priority.
Deadline for abstracts:
15 April 2020.
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37. Conference of the International Association for the Study of Arabia
(IASA): “Seminar for Arabian Studies“, Cordoba, 15-18 July 2020
This is the only annual
international forum for the presentation of the latest academic research on the
Arabian Peninsula. The subjects covered include archaeology, history,
epigraphy, languages, literature, art, culture, ethnography, geography, etc.
from the earliest times to the present day or, in the case of political and
social history, to the end of the Ottoman Empire.
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38. Gulf Research Meeting (GRM), University of Cambridge, 21-23 July 2020
Workshops include the following topics: Art, Museums and Cultural
Initiatives in the Arabian Gulf; Energy Transition and Climate Change; Europe
and the Multipolarization of the Gulf; Foreign Aid and the Gulf States;
Industrial Policies in the Gulf; Nationalization of GCC Labor Markets; Social
Remittances and Social Change; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2020. Information: http://gulfresearchmeeting.net/grm2020-call-for-papers/
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39. Panel on “Migrants, Law and the State in and beyond Europe” during the
Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists
(EASA), Lisbon, 21-24 July 2020
This
panel interrogates how migrants without settled legal status in the Global
South and North use the law to demand political, economic, social and cultural
rights. It brings together research on migrants' navigation of bureaucratic
landscapes as well as ethnographic work on state bureaucracies.
Deadline
for abstracts: 20 January 2020. Information:
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2020/p/8815
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40. Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology
(COMELA), American College of Greece, Athens, 2-5 September 2020
COMELA invites academics
in Linguistics, Anthropology, Linguistic and Cultural Anthropology, and
Ethnology, to address the shifting boundedness of Language Communities of the
Mediterranean and Europe. Papers and posters should describe processes of
language shape, change, and ideology, pertinent to social, cultural, political
histories, and futures of Mediterranean and European regions.
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41. Panel on "Ottoman Cultural Mobilities: 19th Century
Modes of Travel, Collecting and Display", within the "International
Conference of European Urban Historians Network", Antwerp, 2-5 September
2020
The panel focuses on the
mobility and circulation of people and objects around Ottoman and connected
contexts; Ottoman encounters and exchanges en route; the journeys of
intellectuals, collections and archives in the late Ottoman Empire.
Information: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/eauh2020/sessions/sessions-overview/session-type/
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42. Conference of the Working Group “Ethnology of Reiligion“ of the
International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, 6-9 September 2020
The conference wants to draw closer
to the current as well as historical dynamics of the “religion-nature”
interdependence and thus to the cultural ecologies of beliefs. We are
interested in a broad set of questions and research foci, i.e.: how do
religions and religious communities in past or present symbolically and
ritually articulate and negotiate relationships with their immediate and
distant environment? What role do other species – i.e. animals, plants –
play within religious (knowledge) systems and practices? Etc.
Deadline for
abstracts: 1 March 2020. Information:
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/5651674/religion-and-nature-–-cultural-ecologies-belief
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43. Fifth
Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP 2020), Barcelona, 13-18
September 2020
We
invite submissions on: - Basic core technologies: morphological analysis,
disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, semantic role labeling, sentiment
analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc. - Applications: machine translation,
speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy,
assistive technologies, social media, etc. - Resources: dictionaries, annotated
data, corpus, etc.
Deadline for abstracts:
20 May 2020. Information: https://sites.google.com/view/wanlp-2020 and https://sites.google.com/view/nadi-shared-task
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44. International
Conference: “An African Metropolis: Cairo and its African Hinterland in the
Middle Ages”, IFAO, Cairo, 15-17 September 2020
This conference’s goal
is to portray, for the first time in the same frame, the relationships between
the capital city of Egypt and the African continent, on both shores of the
Sahara and from the western Maghreb to the Horn of Africa, in the Middle Ages.
Deadline for abstracts:
15 February 2020.
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45. 27th
International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO),
University of Osnabrück, 24-26 September 2020
Papers
are invited in all fields of social sciences and humanities related to the Middle
East and North Africa as well as the impact of this region on the development
of other parts of the world.
Deadline
for proposals of open panels: 30 April 2020.
Deadline
for abstracts of papers and closed panels: 30 June 2020.
Information:
amke.dietert@googlemail.com
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46. 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.
Deadline
for abstracts: 30 April 2020.
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47. Conference:
“Rethinking Narratives of China and the Middle East – The Silk Roads and
Beyond”, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 8-10 April 2021
Abstracts that examine the relationship between
China and the Middle East, both ancient and modern are encouraged, and papers that
incorporate additional regions, such as Europe, Central Asia, or
South/Southeast Asia are also encouraged.
Deadline for abstracts: 21 January 2020.
Information: https://ceas.sas.upenn.edu/news/call-papers-rethinking-narratives-china-and-middle-east
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POSITIONS
48. Grants for Three-years PhD Program at the German Institute of Global and
Area Studies (GIGA) (Focus MENA Region), Hamburg
Requirements: Excellent MA in political science/international relations,
economics, history, or a related discipline, high-quality project proposal that
fits with the GIGA’s core research agenda with a focus on comparative area
studies or a cross-regional focus, strong command of the English language.
Starting 1 October 2020.
Deadline for
applications: 1 February 2020. Information: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/sites/default/files/md_pdf/GIGA-20-01_DP_CfA_external_funding.pdf
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49. “Global Professorships 2020“ – Funding of Scholars in Humanities and
Social Sciences Based Abroad to Do Research at UK Universities
This
programme provides mid-career to senior scholars in any discipline within the
humanities and social sciences, who are currently employed outside the United
Kingdom, with the opportunity to be based for four years in the UK and make a
contribution to UK research and higher education.
Deadline for
applications: 19 February 2020. Information:
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/global-professorships-2020
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50. PhD Studentship in the Research Project "Colophons, Community, and
the Making of the Christian Middle East, 1500-1900", University of Oxford
Ideally, candidates will
be able to work with manuscripts in Arabic or Syriac. The scholarship will
cover course fees and provide a living allowance at Research Council rates.
Candidates from all backgrounds are welcome to apply.
Deadline for
applications: 10 January 2020. Information: https://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/colophons-community-and-making-christian-middle-east-1500-1900?fbclid=IwAR3i5P2NrBv5_u0JboGK6KvxEuWcX5uxWvifAK5xJhLCj4jiXxlgnFqmH9Y
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51. Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Middle Eastern Diasporic
Literatures and Cultures, York University
We are particularly interested
in candidates whose research can be situated within the fields of Postcolonial
and World Literature in English within and across periods, genres, and regions.
Interdisciplinary and intermedial approaches are especially welcome. The
successful candidate will have a PhD in English Literature or a related field
with a specialization in Middle Eastern Diasporic Literatures and Cultures; a
dynamic, substantial, and ongoing research portfolio; etc.
Deadline for
applications: 25 January 2020.
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52. Assistant Professor in Gender, Post-Colonialism, and the Islamic World,
York University
A PhD by the start of
the appointment in Political Science or an appropriate related field is
required. The successful candidate’s research should complement the present
scholarly profile of the Department of Politics in the study of gender,
post-colonialism, anti-imperialism, and the Islamic World, conceived to
encompass not only "Islamic countries" but in a diasporic sense, and
to develop the conception in new and innovative ways.
Deadline for
applications: 25 January 2020.
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53. One-year Post-doctoral Fellowship for Research on the History of Gender
Studies (2020-2021), Tel Aviv University
Preference will be given to candidates whose
research focuses on the history of gender studies. $ 30,000 award. Candidates
must have received their PhD no earlier than 1 October 2015 and no later than 1
October 2020.
Deadline for
applications: 16 February 2020. Information:
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59683
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54. Four Post-doctoral Fellowships for Historical Studies (2020-2021), Tel
Aviv University
$ 30,000 award. Candidates must have received their PhD no earlier than
1 October 2015 and no later than 1 October 2020.
Deadline for
applications: 16 February 2020. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59684
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55. Faculty Positions for Middle Eastern History & Arabic Language plus
Others, Gulf University for Science & Technology (GUST), Kuwait
Open
Faculty positions at GUST are to start in Fall 2020. Review of applications
begins in December and will continue until the positions are filled.
- Further vacancies:
https://www.gust.edu.kw/vacancies
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56. Postdoctoral Researcher in Political Sciences,
Sociology and Economics, Division of Social Science, New York University
(Global), Abu Dhabi
Requirements:
applicants must have received a PhD in the last three years or be within a few
months from completion. We encourage applications from very promising candidates with
a capacity to conduct innovative, high-quality scholarly research in the fields
of Economics, Political Science, Sociology and Public Policy. Successful
candidates are expected to develop a well-defined research program and to forge
productive collaborations with faculty at NYUAD.
The position will close
on 15 March 2020; candidates for Sociology will be evaluated beginning 1
November 2019; and candidates for economics will be evaluated starting 15
December 2019. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/66364
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57. Postdoctoral Fellowship in North African
Studies, 2020-2021, Yale University, MacMillan Center
Candidates
must have research and teaching experience relevant to North Africa, including
any period from early modern to contemporary (1500 - present). The Council
invites applications from across the social sciences and humanities.
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58. Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics of
the Middle East / North Africa, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Required qualifications: a Ph.D. in Political Science or a closely
related field is required by the time of appointment. Candidates must have a
research focus that involves comparative political analysis in the MENA region
and demonstrated excellence in research. They also must have evidence of
teaching effectiveness to meet the Department’s key teaching needs in its B.A.
and M.A. programs.
Screening of applications will begin 21 January 2020 and continue until
the position is filled. Information: http://careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/job/511605/asst-professor-comparative-politicsmiddle-eastnorth-africa
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59. One-Year Fellowships for Researchers at the Pre-doctoral, Postdoctoral,
and Junior Faculty Level for Research Related to Middle Eastern Governance and
Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge,
MA
Applications from political scientists, historians, economists,
sociologists, and other social scientists are welcome. Eligible candidates
include advanced doctoral candidates, recent recipients of a Ph.D. or
equivalent degree, and untenured faculty members. Priority will be given to
applications pursuing one of these six primary areas of focus: Improving
governance; building peace; revitalizing the state; broadening financial and
labor markets; governing technology; adapting to environmental challenges; etc.
Deadline for
applications: 15 January 2020.
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60. One-year Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern
or Early Modern Middle Eastern History, Reed College, Portland
In
addition to teaching one course each semester in one's own area, the appointee
will teach one year-long discussion section in Reed’s writing-intensive,
introductory Humanities course.
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61. Lecturer in Sociology of Islam and Muslim
Societies, Australian National University, Canberra
The appointee’s research profile should be rooted in sociological
perspectives or political sociology on the religion and culture of Islam and
Muslim societies. Research can focus on aspects of the global and complex
majority Muslim societies and/or minority status of Muslims in various
socio-political contexts.
Deadline for applications: 2 March 2020. Information:
https://socioloxy.com/lecturer-in-sociology-of-islam-and-muslim-societies,i6248.html
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62. Senior Lecturer in Politics and International
Relations of the Arabic Speaking Middle East, Australian National University,
Canberra
This position requires active independent contribution to research,
undergraduate and graduate teaching and the supervision of research
students. Knowledge and research competency in Arabic language is
desirable.
Deadline for applications: 20 January 2020. Information: https://socioloxy.com/senior-lecturer-in-politics-and-international-relations-of-the-arabic-speaking-middle-east,i6247.html
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OTHER INFORMATION
63. MA in Islamic & West Asian Studies (1 Year), Royal Holloway University
of London
Based
at Department of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy, this degree
provides empirically-grounded engagement with West Asia, combining an
understanding of Islamic and regional history, with a clear connection to
contemporary policy-relevant issues.
Deadline for
application: 30 August 2020. For more information visit: https://bit.ly/37tQgFh or email: ciwas@rhul.ac.uk
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64. Three-Months Internship with the Moroccan
Institute for Policy Analysis, Rabat
Qualifications:
A Master’s degree in political science, economics, international relations,
sociology, anthropology or other relevant social sciences disciplines;
proficiency in English and Arabic. Preference will be given to applicants who
are currently registered as doctoral students.
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65. Summer School: “Critical Muslim Studies:
Decolonial Struggles and Liberatiion Theologies”, Granada, 15-19 June 2020
The
course covers several topics such as Introduction to Critical Muslim Studies,
Islamic Theology of Liberation, Islamic Decolonial Pedagogy, Inter-Faith
Dialogues, Women and Islam, and Islamic Spirituality. The focus of the course
is to inquire into Islam as a postcolonial/decolonial perspective.
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66. Articles for “Labors of Need: Lives of African
and Asian Workers in the Middle East” for Special Issue of the Journal “Mashriq
& Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies”
Papers are invited on
Employment, sponsorship, and the legal regimes governing migration; the
migration process; migrants’ working lives in various sectors; gender and
migration; race, representation and migration; regional, religious, and social
distinctions among migrants; etc.
Deadline for full articles: 6 January 2020. Information:
https://lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/mashriq/announcement/view/15
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67. Articles on Research Topic “Media Populism: How
Media Populism and Inflating Fear Empowers Populist Politicians“ (Focus Egypt
etc.) for Journals “Frontiers in Communication – Political
Communication“ and „Frontiers in Sociology – Political Communication“
The aim is to offer a variety of case
studies demonstrating the role of the media, specifically social media, in
getting populist leaders to power in democratic and authoritarian states.
Editor Rasha El-Ibiary, Future University, New Cairo
Deadline for submissions: 29 February 2020. Information: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/10026/media-populism-how-media-populism-and-inflating-fear-empowers-populist-politicians
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68. Article for Edited Book on “International Response to Domestic Violence
in the Middle East“ (Rutledge Publication)
Special
attention is devoted to the evolution of anti-domestic violence laws, the way
that law enforcement agencies, non-governmental organizations and/or health
agencies deal with domestic violence, and how all these initiatives influence
women’s rights and interests.
Expressions of interest
due by 15 January 2020.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/5134734/call-chapters-international-response-domestic-violence
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69. Monographs and Edited Books on the MENA Region for the Peter Lang’s
Series “Global Politics”
We
invite scholarly monographs authored by academics on topical questions in
international relations and the modern and contemporary history of the Middle
East and North Africa. The aim is to promote deeper knowledge of emerging
issues and trends. Publications include original monographs and edited volumes
which combine a grasp of the past, an understanding of present dynamics, and a
vision about potential futures.
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70. New Book Series: "Ecclesiastica Ottomanica"
The series welcomes
contributions beyond the confines of grand theories such as dhimmitude and the
millet system, and of traditional binaries such as toleration and persecution.
It has a cross-disciplinary perspective involving the fields of Ottoman
history, Middle Eastern studies, Balkan studies, African studies, religious
studies, church history, missiology, the history of interactions, connected
history, and diaspora studies.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/4923491/new-book-series-ecclesiastica-ottomanica
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