BAHRAIN: Formula One Expresses “Concerns” for Imprisoned Female Activist Critical of The Grand Prix

15 November 2018 – On 12 November, Formula One expressed concern for Bahraini female political prisoner, Najah Yusuf, whose conviction involves criticising the Bahraini government and the Bahrain Grand Prix 2017. In June 2018, Najah was found guilty for, according to the Public Prosecution, promoting and encouraging people “to overthrow the political and social systems”….

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Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Calls on Bahrain to Make Parliamentary Elections Free and Fair

06 November 2018 – Today, Representative Jim McGovern and Representative Randy Hultgren, the co-chairs of the Congressional Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, publicized a letter they sent last week asking Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa to “take all necessary steps to ensure that the upcoming elections for the Council of Representatives of Bahrain’s National Assembly meet international standards for free and fair elections.”

For ADHRB Weekly 277, click here.

Shia Course – SHIʿA STUDIES INTENSIVE COURSE

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The 8th Intensive Course on Shi’a Islamic Studies (Iran – 2019)

· Organized by the University of Religions and Denominations (Qom, Iran)
· Workshop: February 22-28, 2019
· Venue: Mashhad, Astan Quds Razavi
· Cultural Tour (Optional): Tehran, Isfahan, Qom
· Language: English
· Partial Scholarships are available
· Registration Deadline: 31 December 2018
· More Information: http://shiacourse.urd.ac.ir
· Contact: shiacourse@urd.ac.ir & iranstudytours@gmail.com

  1.ESRC MSc/PhD studentships in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, the University of Edinburgh ESRC Scottish Doctoral Training Programme MSc + PhD studentships for 2019 are available for students of Language-Based Area Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Starting date October 2019. Applicants must apply for admission with us by

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Program

Program of sessions at MESA 2018 annual meeting in San Antonio.

Readers of this list might pay particular attention to:
(5136) Ecological Spillover: Climate and Environmental Risks from the Indian Ocean World to the Middle East
(5160) Adaptations of Political Philosophy in and from Islam
(5325) Political Legitimacy in Masnawis & Advice Literature
(5336) Iranian Diasporas
(5355) Political & Religious Development During the Safavid Period
(5301) Sectarianism, Identity and the State in Lebanon
(5307) Unorthodoxies Shi’ism, Sufism, Feminism
(5312) Minorities in the Middle East
(5256) Gender, Law and Violence in Lebanon – Feminist Contestations Post-Arab Uprisings
(5351) Politics & Identity in the Arab States of the Gulf
(5349) Identity and Political Mobilization in Contemporary Lebanon

Séminaire «Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien»

Séance du 15 novembre 2018, 17h-19h

Mohammad Ali AMIR-MOEZZI, Directeur d’études, École Pratique des Hautes Études/PSL

« Nouvelles recherches sur les origines de l’islam et de l’imamologie shi’ite »

A l’occasion de la parution de son livre La Preuve de Dieu. La mystique shi’ite à travers l’œuvre de Kulaynî (Cerf, 2018), M. A. Amir-Moezzi expose, à travers quelques thèmes, ses dernières recherches sur la question encore bien énigmatique des origines de l’islam et du shi’isme : le caractère problématique du Coran, la dimension apocalyptique du message de Muhammad et le milieu biblique qui l’a vu naître, le problème de l’avènement du Messie, les relations christologiques entre Jésus et ‘Alî.

Mohammad Ali AMIR-MOEZZI est Directeur d’études à l’École Pratique des Hautes Études/PSL où il occupe la chaire de l’islamologie classique. Membre de l’Académie ambrosienne (Milan) et de plusieurs sociétés savantes, il est l’auteur de nombreux livres et articles dont, parmi les plus récents : Le Coran silencieux et le Coran parlant (CNRS Éditions, 2012) et l’ouvrage collectif, L’ésotérisme shi’ite, ses racines et ses prolongements (Brepols, 2016).

Lieu: INaLCO, amphi 6, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris.
Organisateur : Amr Ahmed (INaLCO), Samra Azarnouche (EPHE), Oliver Bast (Sorbonne nouvelle – Paris 3), Agnès Devictor (Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne), Julien Thorez (CNRS)

O Scharbrodt, ‘A minority within a minority?: the complexity and multilocality of transnational Twelver Shia networks in Britain’, Contemporary Islam (2018).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-018-0431-0

Bahrain’s Unending Shia Repression

by Emile Nakhleh Amid the Saudi-caused horrific human tragedy in Yemen and the ongoing investigation into the premeditated murder of Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, …

  1.Assembling the Tropics Science and Medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450–1700 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Online publication date: August 2018 Print publication year: 2018 Online ISBN: 9781108164856   https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108164856       2. Reception, Appropriation, and Innovation: Byzantium between the Christian and Islamic Worlds 2ND ANNUAL EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE BYZANTINE CONFERENCE 30th

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Life sentence for Bahrain opposition leader

Sheikh Ali Salman was accused of spying for Qatar after Bahrain cut ties with the rival state.

See also Amnesty International.
See also ADHRB.
See also NY Times.
See also BIRD Number 212.