Archive for December 21st, 2021

Houthi hysteria breaks out at the Wall Street Journal

1.CALL FOR PAPERS – MESA’s 56^th Annual Meeting
December 1-4, 2022 in Denver, Colorado
Deadline: February 17, 2022

The Middle East Studies Association of North America invites and encourages submissions for its 56^th Annual Meeting to be held in the fall of 2022. Submissions by students are more than welcome.

MESA is a leading international forum for scholarship, intellectual exchange, and pedagogical innovation. Since its founding in 1966, it has been the hub for academic collaboration within the field of Middle East studies. The meeting features panels and roundtables on a wide variety of topics related to the broader Middle East and North Africa from the 600s until the present. Presentations and discussions are complemented by an exciting film festival of documentaries, features, and shorts related to the region, as well as a comprehensive book exhibit featuring the latest publications in the field, in addition to a variety of other events and opportunities related to academic and professional careers in Middle East studies.

Submissions may be in the form of pre-organized panels, pre-organized roundtables, or individual papers (to be formed into panels by the program committee).

MESA’s purview is primarily the area encompassing Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Israel, Pakistan, and the countries of the Arab World (and their diasporas) from the seventh century to modern times. Other regions, including Spain, Southeastern Europe, China and the former Soviet Union, also are included for the periods in which their territories were parts of the Middle Eastern empires or were under the influence of Middle Eastern civilization. Comparative work is encouraged.

All submissions must be made through the myMESA electronic submission system (https://mesana.org/mymesa/login.php) which opens on Monday, January 10, 2022 and closes on Thursday, February 17, 2022 at midnight Eastern Standard Time. Late submissions will not be considered.

Important Links
* Call for Papers & Submission Instructions: https://mesana.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers

Membership is a requirement to submit a proposal. To renew your 2022 membership, login to your myMESA account. To join you will need to create an account in myMESA, complete a profile, and pay the annual dues. Contact Sara Palmer at sara@mesana.org with questions about membership. Preregistration payment is not required until May 15, after the program committee decisions are released.

Please direct questions about submissions to Kat Teghizadeh at kat@mesana.org.

2. Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies

Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Georgetown University

The Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship was established by a generous grant from the State of Qatar to the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The fellowship supports a recent Ph.D. working on the topic of U.S.-Arab relations, Arab Studies, or Islamic Studies for one academic year ($60,000 plus benefits). The post-doctoral fellow will transform their Ph.D. dissertation into a publication; teach a small seminar on a topic of their choosing in either the fall or spring semester; and deliver a lecture at CCAS about their research. We also will support the Fellow to travel to Qatar and deliver a lecture at an educational institution in Doha.

Eligibility
Applicants must have completed a Ph.D. within the past five years; the Ph.D. degree must be from a university in the United States; applicants will be assessed on the originality of their scholarship and the high quality of their academic record.

Application Requirements

Cover letter

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Two references*

Academic transcript(s)

Dissertation outline & sample chapter (or published article)

Course proposal for seminar

*Please provide the names and contact information of two professional references. If you are shortlisted for the fellowship, you will be notified in mid-January and asked to submit two recommendation letters. The letters should be emailed directly to CCAS within three weeks of notification.

Applications for the 2022-2023 ADF Fellowship will be due January 31, 2022. Click here to apply.

Questions about the fellowship may be directed to Ms. Dana AlDairani at da603@georgetown.edu.

3. ONLINE Webinar: “Linguicide and Kurdish Theater in Turkey: Seeking the Voice” by Bilal Akar, Kadir Has University, 22 December 2021, 7:30 pm TRT

Since 1991, the Kurdish theater field has faced ongoing effects of the linguicidal policies of the republic and negotiated the changing politics of language and identity. This presentation will focus on the effects of these linguicidal policies on the production of Kurdish theater texts, the limited number of artists who can speak in their mother tongue, the debates on the usage of local dialects, surtitles, and assimilation, hybridization, non-verbal plays, and multilingualism.

Information and registration: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9312750/webinar-linguicide-and-kurdish-theater-turkey-seeking-voice

4. Colloque international : « Le pouvoir du rire – rire et pouvoir. Humour, discours et politique (avec un focus spécial sur le monde arabo-islamique) », Université de Craiova (Roumanie), INALCO (Paris) et Université de Lyon 2, Craiova, 19-20 mai 2022

Arme fatale contre le cynisme, la sottise, la langue de bois et la censure, l’humour démasque l’arbitraire, brise les idoles et s’attaque aux tabous. Toutes les aires géographiques et culturelles sont concernées (dont bien sûr le monde arabo-islamique).

Information : http://www.inalco.fr/appel-communication/pouvoir-rire-rire-pouvoir-humour-discours-politique

5. Assistant/Associate Professor of Classical/Premodern Arabic Literature

American University in Cairo

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62583

Dec 31 2021 closing date.

6. Assistant Professor of History: Africa/Global South (Focus Middle East), Texas Christian University, Fort Worth

We seek applicants whose research is grounded in Africa; time period and regional specialization within Africa are open. Scholars are welcome who treat and connect varied regions/nations of the continent, or who tie Africa to other geographic areas, such as South Asia, the Middle East, and the Caribbean as well as scholars whose research incorporates non-European languages and sources.

Deadline for applications: 16 January 2022.

Information: https://jobs.tcu.edu/en-us/job/497422/assistant-professor-of-history-africaglobal-south

7. Articles on Communication of culture and Islamic Fundamentalism, for Special Issue of Frontiers in Communication

Topics: Fundamentalist Islam and less advantaged gender, sex, religious and ethnic groups. Conceptualization of outgroups, terrorism, and Jihad through the Islamic fundamentalist lens. Interculturality and Islamic fundamentalism. Theorization of Islamic fundamentalism in the literature of culture, communication, and me-dia studies. Islamic fundamentalists, propaganda, and media. Cultural impacts of the Taliban’s taking over of Afghanistan, locally and globally. Etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2022.

Information: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/26194/communication-of-culture-and-islamic-fundamentalism

8. The German Bundestag Invites Highly Motivated Graduates from the Arab Region to Take Part in a Scholarship Programme in Berlin from 1 to 30 September Each Year

Eligibility criteria: Citizenship of an Arab country; under the age of 35; university degree; good knowledge of German (at least level B2), a strong interest in politics, and social/political commitment.

Deadline for applications: 20 January, 2022.

Information: https://www.bundestag.de/en/europe/international/exchange/ips/arabian-250618