Archive for 2018

Saudi Arabia’s ambitious Vision 2030 plan in trouble

Saudi Vision 2030, the brainchild of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to reduce the kingdom’s dependence on oil income, is coming undone. The king has stripped away the central pillar of the project. The country is becoming more autocratic and repressive. The slide toward greater repression is prompting capital flight.

 

1.The Islamic Manuscript Association—in partnership with the Orient-Institut Istanbul, the Bibliotheca Arabica Projectat the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig, and the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation—is pleased to announce that it will hold a part-day symposium entitled New Research on Ottoman-Era Manuscript Libraries at the Orient-Institut Istanbul on Saturday, 8 September 2018 from 13.00 to 17.00.

The symposium’s speakers are Prof. Dr. Hans Georg Majer, emeritus chair of Turcology and the history and culture of the Near East at Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich; Dr. Konrad Hirschler, professor of Islamic studies at the Free University of Berlin; Dr. Boris Liebrenz, research fellow with the Bibliotheca Arabica Project at the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig; and Dr. Berat Açıl, associate professor in the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at İstanbul Şehir University. The symposium’s programme, papers’ abstracts, and speakers’ biographies are available on the Association’s website.

The symposium will be followed by the Association’s 2018 annual general meeting, which will only be open to Association members who have paid their fees for the 2018 membership year.

Admission to the symposium is free of charge, but registration is essential. Please register via the Eventbrite widget at: http://www.islamicmanuscript.org/symposia/new-research-on-ottoman-era-manuscript-libraries.aspx

Please note that the symposium is an English-language event: neither English-Turkish nor English-Arabic interpretation will be available.

The address of the symposium venue, the Orient-Institut Istanbul, is Susam Sok. No. 16, Apt. 8, Cihangir, Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey.

Please do not hesitate to contact the Association via admin@islamicmanuscript.org if you have any queries about the symposium or our organization.

 

 

 

2. Call for Submissions: Muslim-American Writers at Home

We all possess plural self-identities. North American Muslims are, however, increasingly viewed by their co-citizens through a biased lens in which ‘American’ and ‘Muslim’ are plotted as diametrically opposed to each other. And yet for Muslims, whether newly arrived or having immigrated in an earlier century (or converts), the United States or Canada represent at least one pole of what “home” is. For a projected anthology, we are looking for submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, or memoir that address themes of “identity” and “home” from North American writers who fully self-identify as Muslim. Themes could include, but are not limited to, topics like:

How you experience your Muslim American identity.
How you or your ancestors made your home in America.
How your Muslim beliefs and practices are integrated into your life here.
What connects you with the home your family migrated from.
How/when you have felt the most welcome here.
How/when you have felt the most misrepresented or misunderstood here.
What you would most like for other people to know about your culture, your beliefs, your journey, etc.

Please send 3-5 poems or prose up to 3500 words to the editors Kitty Costello and Valerie Behiery at muslimamericansathome@gmail.com before October 1st, 2018 (Extended to 15th). Authors will receive a response by the selection committee (Kitty, Valerie, and Hanan) by December 30th 2018 and hopefully earlier.

About the editors:
Kitty Costello is a poet, writing facilitator, and psychotherapist who uses writing as a tool for insight and healing. Her recent poetry book is entitled Upon Waking. She has served for nearly 30 years on the editorial board of Freedom Voices Publications, which publishes works that speak to and from communities on the margins.

Valerie Behiery, Ph.D., is an arts writer specializing in contemporary culture related to the Muslim World. Dedicated to healing social divisions, her writing has been published in academic journals, art catalogues, and freelance publications like Intense Art Magazine, Azizah, Tribe, Nafas, or esse. She has taught at universities in Canada, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia.

Hanan Hazime is a multidisciplinary artist, community arts educator, and writing facilitator. She has a M.A. in English Literature & Creative Writing. Hanan’s writing aims to empower Muslim women and other individuals who have experienced mental health issues. Her debut poetry chapbook “Aorta” was published by ZED Press in April 2018. She is currently working on her first novel.

 

 

 

3. Call for Papers: “From the Ruins of Preservation” A symposium on rethinking heritage through counter-archives, to be held in London, 11-12th July 2019

Colonial legacies in heritage preservation have intersected and clashed with local realities since their inception. Heritage sites have often been created by way of processes which segregate them both temporally and geographically from the contemporary world, and the people who live with and amongst them. This might result in restrictions of habitation and cultivation, religious and ritual practice, and the removal of entire local settlements from inside and around natural and  cultural heritage sites. Individuals and communities, however, have always had their own ways of preserving and engaging with material and immaterial significances. Objects, places and landscapes were and are embedded and reactivated in the domains of contemporary life. These realities defy and challenge the disciplinary baggage, canons and categories as well as prevailing methods, discourses, concepts and practices of heritage studies, which in many cases have proved unhelpful in engaging such records outside of “the archive” as it is conventionally understood.

The problem of adequately engaging the histories of these intersections has been exacerbated by methodological challenges. Historians have long ignored the gaps and unspoken emotions and bodies in written and visual archival sources. Visual analyses often lack the methods to engage with different iterations of the diverse and heterogenous agencies of both humans and nonhumans outside of the scope of official archives—the locals going about their lives in ancient ruins; the workers who labour on archaeological excavations; those often nameless individuals who serve as human scales next to an excavated building; the local guides who help “open up” landscapes to preservationists; or the agencies and affordances of forms of material culture themselves. Due to a turn against the forms of authority empowered in conventional archival sources, critical heritage studies have largely denied the usefulness and significance of archives for the study of such non-official forms of heritage preservation, which has led to the de-privileging of historical and visual analysis. This frustration has resulted in a general turning away from such sources by researchers within heritage studies to focus on contemporary issues, and their accompanying methods, especially “oral history” and ethnography. However, this move has frustrated historians who have seen heritage studies as a field in which the historical contexts of the contemporary phenomena which such scholars study has been effectively written out of the picture.

In order to address these issues, we are seeking contributions for a symposium (to be held at the German Historical Institute London) and linked edited volume that aims to reconstruct new histories and viewpoints in order to re-examine the “ruins of preservation” and to rethink the varied agencies—both human and non-human—which surround both natural and cultural heritage preservation practices through new conceptual and methodological approaches. We expect such papers to engage with a range of alternative sources and counter-archives (neglected aspects of photography; engagement with more-than-human agents; rethinking objects, landscape and built environment as archives), and/or to discuss new approaches to oral and public history. Re-engaging such histories is not only important in building a new historical approach to heritage, but will also help researchers to reconceptualise and recontextualise contemporary heritage phenomena. By re-centring the discourse about “heritage” to examine specific non-state practices (or conflicts between state and non-state practices) through such methods we also seek a more nuanced and effective understanding of how preservation has been determined over time and from different perspectives. Papers should thus present a methodological intervention into reductionist preservation histories by developing a new diachronic, more diverse vocabulary and directions for future research in and on this field.

CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann, Assistant Professor of African Studies, Hampshire College

Trinidad Rico, Director of Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies, Rutgers University

Karen Salt, Director of the Centre for Research in Race and Rights (C3R), University of Nottingham

Please send abstracts of 300-400 words and queries to: fromtheruinsofpreservation@gmail.com

DEADLINE: November 1, 2018. Speakers will be notified in late November. We have a modest budget to cover travel for participants who require this; please indicate whether you would need to have your travel covered when you send your abstracts, and where you would be travelling from. All accepted participants will have their accommodation covered in London for three nights.

Co-organized by Mirjam Brusius (Research Fellow in Colonial and Global History) German Historical Institute London and Rodney Harrison (AHRC Heritage Priority Area Leadership Fellow/Professor of Heritage Studies at the UCL Institute of Archaeology).

Visit the conference site at GHIL https://www.ghil.ac.uk/from_the_ruins_of_preservation/

and UCL https://heritage-research.org/2018/08/20/call-papers-ruins-preservation-symposium-rethinking-heritage-counter-archives/

 

 

 

4. Call for Papers

(Deadline Sept. 19^th, 2018)

Summer Doctoral School

“Religion and Atheism in Pluralist Societies”

 

Nantes, 17-19 June 2019

The Institut du pluralisme religieux et de l’athéisme (IPRA ; www.ipra.eu) is organizing a summer school on religion and atheism in pluralist societies. We seek to bring together doctoral students in different disciplines (history, religious studies, sociology, law, art history, anthropology, etc.). Presentations may be given in English or in French. Participants should be able to understand both languages. We seek in particular to bring together doctoral students from Iran, France, other European countries and the USA.

 

Eligibility:

The summer school is open to doctoral students enrolled in any country, in any discipline, as long as their dissertation subject, and the proposed talk, are related to the theme of the summer school.

 

Costs:

The summer school will be financed by IPRA and the University of Nantes and will be free of cost to the students accepted. Participants will be lodged in student housing at no cost. Lunch will be provided free to participants. Travel to Nantes will not be paid by IPRA, and participants should seek funding from their home institutions.

 

Format:

The summer school will take place 17-19 June 2019. Doctoral students will each make a 20-minute presentation; faculty from IPRA and other partner institutions will chair the panels and give their reactions to student presentations.

 

For more information, please visit:

http://ipra.eu/en/2018/04/09/summer-doctoral-school-2019-religion-and-atheism-in-pluralist-societies/

 

Students from Iran should contact pedram.khosronejad@okstate.edu.

 

 

 

5. Panels on Sixth Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS 2019), University of Nottingham, 15-16 April 2019

The organisers invite proposals for whole panels or individual papers. Islamic Studies is broadly understood to include all disciplinary approaches to the study of Islam and Muslim societies (majority and minority), modern and premodern.

Deadline for proposals: 30 November 2018. Information: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-2019-call-for-papers

 

 

6. Conference: “Religion and Resistance”, American Academy of Religion Western Region (AARWR), Arizona State University, 2-3 March 2019

The Islamic Studies Section invites papers and panels focusing on the main theme of the conference addressing questions such as: how might resistance best be understood within Islam and Islamic traditions theologically and/or culturally? How have the different forms of resistance in Islam changed throughout history? Etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2018. Information: https://www.aarwr.com/call-for-papers.html

 

 

 

7. Conference: “Global Islam in the Interwar World”, University of Leuven, 27-29 March 2019

We are seeking contributions from different disciplines by junior and senior researchers dealing with the Muslim global history of the period 1914-1945 in the wider sense. We aim to discuss new methodological perspectives about how intellectual Muslim networks and figures (including minor or less prominent figures) tried to position themselves and their actions in the world history of that era.

Deadline for abstracts: 26 October 2018. Information: http://www.muslims-in-interwar-europe.com/CallForPapers.html

 

 

 

8. Director of the Islamic Chaplaincy Program, Hartford Seminary

Preference will be given to candidates whose work exhibits appreciation for contemporary significance and relevant methods. The successful candidate must be able to teach at the introductory and advanced graduate levels, and must be able to guide and advise students within the Islamic Chaplaincy Program, including field placements and CPE settings. Rank is open; Ph.D. or suitable equivalent degree strongly preferred.

Review of applications start: 1 October 201. Information: http://mideast.unc.edu/hartford-seminary-director-of-the-islamic-chaplaincy-program/

 

 

 

9. Islamic Studies Position, Bard College

This is a full-time, tenure-track position in the area of Islamic Studies, to begin September 2019. Applicants should possess a strong foundation in the formative or classical traditions and literatures of Islam, with appropriate language proficiency such as Arabic and/or Persian, and an understanding of later and contemporary developments within Islamic societies.PhD or near completion is required.

Deadline for applications: https://apply.interfolio.com/54151 . Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/54151

 

 

10. Lecturer in Arabic Language, Columbia University

The position is at the rank of Lecturer in Discipline and beginning July 1, 2019. We are seeking a professional language teacher with a serious commitment to teaching languages for academic purposes while developing pedagogical materials and incorporating technological innovations into the curriculum. Preference will be given to applicants who have a Ph.D., but those with a Master’s degree and considerable language teaching experience are also encouraged to apply.

Review of applications start: 1 October 2018. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=57205

 

 

 

11. Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East, Texas Tech University

Candidates who have very strong records of scholarship supported by extramural funding and who have the proven capacity or clear potential to bring externally sponsored research to Texas Tech University are encouraged to apply. Service duties include program-building, as well as commitment to extra-curricular activities. Service to the department, college, university, and community is expected. Applicants should have completed a PhD in modern Middle Eastern history at the time of the appointment.7

Review of applications start: 15 October 2018. Information: https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/Home?partnerid=25898&siteid=5637#jobDetails=414845_5637

 

 

 

12. Persian Language Winter School 2018, Yerevan, Armenia, 2-22 December 2018

This 14 or 21 days’ winter school offers participants to master skills in written and oral modern Persian, reading and interpreting Persian texts from different periods as well as rapidly deepening their knowledge in colloquial Persian. This school is designed for students, at least 18 years-old, who want to make well-grounded progress in their knowledge of the Persian language, deepen their knowledge of Persian Grammar, colloquial speech and literary language.

Deadline for registration: 10 October 2018. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/2319313/persian-language-winter-school-2018-yerevan-armenia

 

 

 

13. Training Course on the Study of Oriental Manuscripts: “Codicological and Paleographical Aspects of Islamic Manuscripts, with a Special Focus on Manuscript Notes”, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 25-29 March 2019

The training course is intended for advanced MA and doctoral students as well as other junior researchers in the fields of Oriental Philology, Islamic Studies, Ethnography or Comparative Manuscript Studies.

Deadline for registration: 30 November 2018. Information: http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/die-staatsbibliothek/abteilungen/orient/aktuelles/

 

 

[Wednesday] Revisiting the History of the Shi’a Marja’yah under the Ba’ath regime in Iraq

Abbas Kadhim, senior adviser to the UNESCO Chair at Kufa University in Iraq. The Hawza Under Siege: Studies in the Ba’ath Party Archive, Kadhim delves into formerly highly-classified documents surrounding the positions of the Marja’iya toward the Ba’athist authorities.

Professor Ehsan Yarshater (1920-2018) – Encyclopaedia Iranica

Professor Ehsan Yarshater (1920-2018) Joint announcement byThe Ehsan Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University;The Persian Heritage Foun

Incidents of Anti-Shiism in August, 2018 – Shia Rights Watch

The month of August stood witness to 286 cases of anti-Shiism, or violence against Shia Muslims. In this month, Shia Rights Watch published its annual Hajj advisory in the protection of religious minorities under threat in the Islamic Hajj ritual. The advisory can be found on ShiaRightsWatch.org.

SABS Christian-Muslim Eid al Adha Dinner 2018

The Scottish Ahlul Bayt Society was pleased to have held a fellowship Eid Dinner for the 4th consecutive year in commemoration of Eid al-Adha, a rememberance of the Prophet Abraham and a feast for Muslims at the end of the Hajj. It is the etiquette of the Holy Prophet [s] and his Noble Family [a] to build neighbourly relations.

1.Call for Papers

Cities of the Arab World: Theory, Investigation, Critique

February 14-16, 2019

Global Urban Studies Program

Michigan State University

Contemporary Arab cities are dynamic entities within and through which larger national, regional and global political-economic, technological and cultural forces interact. Global discourses of urban development and redevelopment, for example, contribute to traumatic dislocations in predictable ways, but also open new pathways to power and new dynamics of place- and community-making as local forces turn such discourses to their own purposes. Social conflict and war, too, have their own political economies and logics of creation and destruction, as politicians and profiteers speculate, and rebels and refugees improvise and innovate survival strategies and new forms of self-government. Reconstruction further reorganizes urban space and economic opportunity, as it gives rise to new and innovative approaches to urban planning, architecture and heritage preservation. Burgeoning creative scenes introduce new aesthetics and make possible new identities and forms of resistance. At the same time, they commodify culture and anchor emergent art markets with increasingly global connections.  Just as Kurds, Copts, Armenians and Chaldeans have contributed to the creative flux of Arab cities, contemporary migrants from the Arab world have created hybrid cultural and political formations and new linguistic landscapes as migrants adapt to and alter metropolitan spaces around the world.

This conference seeks papers that explore the complexities and contradictions of Arab cities and Arab urban communities around the world. Organizers seek theoretically driven, holistic and historically grounded individual and comparative studies that explore both significant challenges and the creative resilience in meeting those challenges in Arab cities and communities. Through concrete case studies, comparisons and ethnographies, participating scholars are asked to attend to the discourses, power structures, institutions, technologies, and strategies shaping Arab cities and communities, as well as the political-economic and socio-cultural forces that drive, benefit from, resist, or are produced by them.

We are particularly interested in papers that focus on the following issues:

• The impact of war, occupation and/or reconstruction on Arab cities.
• Political economies of urban development and redevelopment in Arab cities. Who  “owns” the city and with what political, economic or cultural effect?
• Minority communities and their contributions to or marginalization within Arab cities.
• Youth culture, gender, or fashion in Arab cities.
• Climate change and environmental challenges and Arab Cities, including, but not limited  to: supply of potable water and sanitation; waste management; transportation; energy consumption; air pollution; and uncontrolled urban growth.
• Linguistic landscapes and hybridities in the Arab world and Arab communities around the world.
• Arab migration and diaspora communities: Identity -, city- and community- making outside the Middle East.
• Representation of Arab cities and urban life in literature and film.
• The city or the urban in Arab political thought and subaltern movements.

We intend to publish conference papers in special issues (or special sections) of peer-reviewed journals and a peer-reviewed edited volume. We ask that participants supply draft papers for circulation by February 2, 2019 for circulation amongst panel participants as a first step in the peer review process.

Transport, accommodation, and meals during the conference will be subsidized by the organizers.

Please submit abstracts for papers (max 300 words) and a CV to Dr. Najib Hourani at houranin@msu.edu with the subject line “Arab Cities 2019 Abstract.”

The deadline for abstract submission is October 5, 2018.

 

 

 

2. Submissions are being accepted for the Fourth Round of the BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World.

The British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) and De Gruyter are delighted to announce the fourth round of the BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World. This international prize will be awarded annually to the best doctoral thesis or unpublished first monograph based on a doctoral thesis. English-language submissions on any aspect of the academic study of Islam and the Muslim world, past and present, including Muslim-minority societies are accepted. Applicants can be based in any country, and manuscripts will be assessed on the basis of scholarly quality and originality.

The award includes publication of the winning manuscript and a prize of £1,000, and it will be officially presented at the Annual Conference of BRAIS. The selection process will be undertaken by a seven-member prize committee comprising established academics from across the field.

Submission deadline: 5pm (UK Time) 1 October 2018

For details of how to submit an entry see http://www.brais.ac.uk/prize

If you have any questions, please send an email to prize@brais.ac.uk

 

 

 

3. International Conference: “Innovative Approaches in Islamic Sciences and Education”, Institute for Islamic Theology, University of Osnabrück, 20-22 September 2018

Conference Management: Prof. Dr. Bülent Uçar.

Deadline for registration: 8 September 2018. Program: https://www.iit.uni-osnabrueck.de/fileadmin/documents/public/Plakate_Brosch%C3%BCren/2018-Innovative_Approaches.pdf

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4. Posts:

 

Full Professorship in “Islamic Text Studies” (Koran and Hadith), Humboldt-University Berlin

Position is starting 1 October 2019. The teaching and research focus of this professorship is on the Koran, as well as on the traditions of the Prophet’s teachings and life (Hadith and Sira). Both the historical contexts of the texts and their traditions of interpretation, as well as their conveyance and interpretation with respect to the present-day realities of Muslims’ lives, are to be the subject of research.

Deadline for applications: 27 September 2018. Information: https://www.personalabteilung.hu-berlin.de/stellenausschreibungen/full-professorship-islamic-text-studies201d-koran-and-hadith-w3

 

Full Professorship in “Islamic Religious Education and Practical Theology”, Humboldt-University Berlin

This position is starting 1 October 2019. The successful candidate’s research work and teaching will focus on the diversity of religious practices in the context of our constantly changing modern world. This professorship will be responsible for the training of teachers of religious education and, to this end, takes into account the diversity of religious experiences on the part of Muslim children and young adults, as well as the plurality of Islamic concepts of identity.

Deadline for applications: 27 September 2018. Information: https://www.personalabteilung.hu-berlin.de/stellenausschreibungen/full-professorship-islamic-religious-education-and-practical-theology201d-w3

 

Full Professorship in “Islamic Law in the Past and Present”, Humboldt-University Berlin

This position is starting 1 October 2019. This professorship addresses religious jurisprudence (Fiqh), the methodology of law (Usul al-fiqh) and the philosophy of law in the classical canon of Islamic theology. It considers not only jurisprudence in the narrower sense, but also the general life orientation in accordance with religious values. Legal norms and their traditional sources and theoretical foundations will be contextualised and problematised in teaching and research with respect to the conditions of a society in a global context.

Deadline for applications: 27 September 2018. Information: https://www.personalabteilung.hu-berlin.de/stellenausschreibungen/full-professorship-islamic-law-in-the-past-and-present201d-w3

 

Junior Professorship in “Islamic Philosophy and the Foundations of Belief”, Humboldt-University Berlin

This is a tenure track position. This professorship focuses on three key fields of Islamic scholarship. In his or her research and teaching, the successful candidate will address the historical contextualisation of various mystical, philosophical and doctrinal currents (in particular Sunna and Shia), including the reception of classical and late antique sciences, especially Aristotelian and neo-Platonic thought.

Deadline for applications: 27 September 2018. Information: https://www.personalabteilung.hu-berlin.de/stellenausschreibungen/junior-professorship-for-islamic-philosophy-and-the-foundations-of-belief201d-with-tenure-track-w1

 

Teaching-Track Lecturer in Beginning through Advanced Arabic, University of Southern California

The Department of Middle East Studies in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences has a need in the Spring 2019 semester for a full-time, teaching-track lecturer position to teach beginning through advanced Arabic. Requirements: Native or near-native fluency in Arabic; demonstrated excellence in the teaching of Arabic language at the college level; M.A. or Ph.D. in Arabic.

Information: https://usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-angeles/full-time-lecturer-in-arabic-language/1209/8911545

 

Assistant/Associate Professor in International/Comparative Political Economy, Naval Postgraduate School, CA

This is a tenure track position. Specialists with regional expertise in Europe or the Middle East and/or with a relevance to national security affairs, defense policy, or maritime policy are especially encouraged to apply. Relevant expertise might include international economic negotiations, global/regional economic regimes, comparative economic policies, trade sanctions, and the political economy of violence.

Deadline for applications: 15 October 2018. Information: https://main.hercjobs.org/jobs/11417081/assistant-or-associate-professor-international-comparative-political-economy

 

Assistant Professor of Modern Middle East History, Smith College, Massachusetts

The Program in Middle East Studies at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin July 1, 2019. Candidates engaged in research that challenges existing periodizations of modern Middle East history, contributes to rethinking the geographies and transregional

flows that shaped territorial spaces within the Middle East over time, and/or engages creatively with underrepresented subjects, geographies, and themes are especially welcome to apply.

Review of applications will begin on 1 November 2018. Information:  https://apply.interfolio.com/53879

 

 

Norma Jean Calderwood University Professorship in Islamic and Asia Art, Boston College

The appointment will be made at the rank of full Professor, with a preferred start date of July 1, 2019. The appointee will teach introductory courses in Islamic art and architecture, and upper-level courses and research seminars in his or her areas of specialization.

Deadline for applications: 15 November 2018. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/53626

 

 

Lecturer in Discipline, Arabic Language, Columbia University, NY

Position is beginning July 1, 2019. We are seeking a professional language teacher with a serious commitment to teaching languages for academic purposes while developing pedagogical materials and incorporating technological innovations into the curriculum.

technological innovations into the curriculum.

Review of applications start: 1 October 2018. Information: https://academicjobs.columbia.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1535888830549

 

 

Visiting Assistant Professor for Arabic Language Flagship Program, University of Mississippi

Beginning January 2019; the professor will teach all levels of Arabic following the program’s curriculum and must have substantial experience in teaching Arabic to American university students, a Ph.D. in Arabic or a related field and native or near-native proficiency in Arabic.

Position open until filled. Information: https://careers.olemiss.edu/job/University-Visiting-Assistant-Professor-%28Arabic-Flagship%29-MS-38677/500962800/

 

 

 

5. Articles on Special Issue “Salafism in the West: Major Issues and Debates” for Journal “Religions”

This special issue specifically aims to identify and discuss the major themes and debates that are commonly associated with the discussions of Salafism in the West either in the context of specific nation states or thematically.

Deadline for manuscripts: 31 January 2020. Information: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/salafism

 

 

6. Excellent AGAPS Country Research Resource Guides on Kuwait and the UAE

Members of the Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS) are working to develop research resource guides for countries in the region. If you are someone who could help AGAPS prepare similar guides on other countries, or you would like to add to our existing guides, please contact okruhlik@msn.com and alsumait.f@gust.edu.kw.

See the Kuwait and UAE Guides: https://agaps.org/member-area/country-guides/

 

The Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shiite Islam (lawalisi) project is offering two postdoctoral fellowship positions, focussing on the late classical period (from 15th to late 19th/early 20th Century) in Shii legal thought and practice. The job descriptions and further details are here:
https://jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=621831Mb0r&WVID=3817591jNg&LANG=USA

Bahrain: 127 Rights Groups Call for Immediate Release of Nabeel Rajab

(Paris) -For the second time since 2013, the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has issued an Opinion regarding the legality of the detention of Mr. Nabeel Rajab under international human rights law. In its second opinion, the WGAD held that the detention was not only arbitrary but also discriminatory.

Profiles in Persecution: Hassan Mushaima

Hassan Mushaima is a 70-year-old Bahraini citizen currently serving a life sentence in Jau Prison on political charges. He was sentenced for “attempting to overthrow the government” for his role in the pro-democracy protests in 2011. He remains in Jau Prison, where he has been subjected to ill treatment, including the continued denial of healthcare and restricted access to medication by the prison administration.