Archive for November, 2025
Shii News – Academic Items
1. Call for Papers: Performing Islam
Special Issue: ‘Performing Islamophobia’
A Critical and Anthropological Study of Politics, Poetics and Representation in Europe
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/performing-islam#call-for-papers
Over the past two decades, Islamophobia has evolved beyond discursive prejudice into a complex performative phenomenon, one enacted through politics, law, culture and everyday life. Performing Islamophobia: A Critical Study in Europe seeks to interrogate how anti-Muslim sentiment is not only expressed but also performed, reproduced and normalised through multiple channels of representation, from artistic and media forms to policy frameworks and bureaucratic practices.
This volume aims to bring together interdisciplinary, decolonial and critical perspectives to examine the ways in which Islamophobia operates as a set of performative acts, embodied, institutional and symbolic, that shape both public perception and lived experience. Contributors are invited to explore how Islamophobia manifests in visual and performing arts, film, television, journalism, digital media, literature, popular culture and state mechanisms, including law enforcement, education and immigration policy. The collection is equally concerned with the counter-performances that resist, subvert and expose such practices.
The volume draws inspiration from the works of scholars such as Judith Butler on performativity, Edward Said on Orientalism, Talal Asad on secularism and religious identity, Sara Ahmed on affect and the politics of emotion, and S. Sayyid, Nasar Meer, and Arjun Appadurai on race, identity, and globalisation. It also welcomes engagement with non-Western scholarship and cultural expressions that challenge Eurocentric epistemologies, offering comparative or transnational insights into the staging, scripting and spectacle of Islamophobia.
Contributors are encouraged to consider, among others, the following questions:
– How is Islamophobia enacted through visual, performative, and narrative forms in Europe?
– In what ways do state policies, legal discourses, and security regimes perform and legitimise exclusionary practices?
– How do artists, filmmakers, writers, and activists perform resistance and reclaim agency in spaces of representation?
– What does an anthropological reading of performativity reveal about the social and cultural reproduction of fear, suspicion and belonging?
By foregrounding the performative dimension of Islamophobia, this volume seeks to articulate, critique, and challenge the mechanisms through which bias becomes embodied and made visible, while amplifying the creative and intellectual interventions that seek to undo it.
Submission Guidelines:
Proposals: Please submit a title, a 150-200 word abstract, and a 150-word biographical note by 20 December 2025.
Full chapters: Accepted contributors will be invited to submit their full papers (6,000-8,000 words) by 30 May 2026.
Formatting: All submissions should follow the latest Harvard referencing style. Please send proposals and inquiries to the Editor, Kamal Salhi, performingislam@yahoo.com.
2. Upcoming presentation in the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies’ Persian Lithographic Printing Seminar
بررسی تاریخچه مطبعه مجلس از بزرگترین چاپخانه های دولتی ایران
“The Majlis Printing House”
(in Persian)
Homa Afrasiabi
Independent Scholar
Thursday, December 4, 2025, 12:00 p.m. EST
Zoom Registration Link:
https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/LzX8QvxMR6y0yTkB7ESWqA
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
3. Through Meinecke’s Lens: The Cairenes and Cairo in the 1970s
What did it mean to live among centuries-old monuments? In 1970s Cairo, historic buildings were part of daily life. People lived in them, worked in them, and built their communities around them. This quiet yet powerful reality is captured in this online exhibition which was originally presented as a photo exhibition in collaboration with the Museum for Islamic Art as part of the ’20th Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society for Studies in Islamic Art and Archaeology’, held for the first time in Cairo.
This photo exhibition highlights the daily life of Cairenes in Historic Cairo during the 1970s, showcasing one of the world’s richest cities filled with Islamic monuments. The forty images are drawn from the Meinecke archive at the Museum for Islamic Art in Berlin, a collection created by the art historian Michael Meinecke (1941–1995) and his wife, the art historian Viktoria Meinecke-Berg (1941–2005). This exhibition aims to reveal a layer of history often overlooked, fostering a deeper understanding of the relationship between Cairo, its people, and visiting scholars while reflecting on the archive’s value for these discussions.
The Photo Exhibition is curated by Dr.-Ing. Eman Shokry Hesham (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck Institute) and Issam Al-Hajjar (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin)
Contact Information
Museum für Islamische Kunst (im Pergamonmuseum)
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Contact: https://islamic-art.smb.museum/kontakt/?lang=en
Contact Email
URL
https://islamic-art.smb.museum/en/story/cairo-meinecke-photo
4. Multaka 10th Anniversary: Learning from the Past, Envisioning the Future
Two-day event | 5–6 December 2025
Dates:
Fri, 05.12.2025 | 09:30 am – 5:45 pm
Sat, 06.12.2025 | 09:30 am – 2:00 pm
Event language: English
Multaka: Museums as Meeting Point was developed within the framework of the Syrian Heritage Archive Project and initiated in December 2015 by the Museum for Islamic Art – in cooperation with the Museum of the Ancient Near East, the Bode-Museum, and the German Historical Museum. Over the past ten years, the multi award-winning project Multaka has received national and international recognition and is regarded as an innovative source of inspiration both within and beyond the museum landscape.
On 5 and 6 December 2025, Multaka: Museums as Meeting Point will celebrate its 10th anniversary together with co-host Multaka Oxford!
The anniversary event Reflecting the Future, brings together the international Multaka network to explore innovative approaches to participatory museum practice, intercultural exchange, and dialogue-based learning.
Hosted at the Center for Cultural Education – Haus Bastian on the Museum Island, the event highlights a decade of intercultural dialogue, collaborative work, and engagement with historical-cultural collections within the award-winning initiative Multaka: Museums as Meeting Point.
Why participate?
The two-day program offers diverse opportunities for (early-career) researchers and universities interested in decolonial museology, methods and strategies of diverse audience engagement, and collaboration between museums and communities.
As a platform for professional networking, knowledge exchange, and cooperation between museums and universities, the event invites participants to reflect on shared visions and to shape future pathways for inclusive cultural education and transnational collaboration.
Contact Information
Participation is free of charge, but registration is required by Tuesday, 2 December 2025, or until all spots are filled.
Please register early to secure your place on the following website: Reflecting the Future
Contact Email
isl@smb.museum
URL
https://www.smb.museum/museen-einrichtungen/museumsinsel-berlin/veranstaltungen…
5. The final lecture of the Virtual Islamic Art History Seminar Series for Fall 2025 will take place on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, at 12:00 New York / 17:00 London / 20:00 Istanbul.
Amanda Caterina Leong (Courtauld Institute of Art) will present “Recovering the Many Faces of Female Javanmardi in the Illustrated Manuscripts of the Premodern Persianate World (945–1800).”
To attend, please register in advance here:
https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/EzuPAit6QACKL3Ls9h6uhw
Upon registration, you’ll receive the link to access the lecture.
As always, you can find a full schedule of upcoming talks and register for our list-serv on our website at viahss.org. Although not every talk is recorded, we also have recordings of several recent talks available on the VIAHSS Vimeo page at vimeo.com/viahss. Lastly, you can follow us on Instagram at @theviahss to stay up to date on upcoming events! The schedule for spring 2026 will be released in late December/early January.
Contact Information
Drs. Alexander Brey, Jaimee Comstock-Skipp, and Rachel Winter
Contact Email
URL
6. Arab Studies Journalvolume 33, no. 1–2 (Fall 2025) is now available from Tadween Publishing.
ARTICLES
Writing Africa for Africans: Du Bois, Egyptian Africanists, and the Encyclopedia Africana Project Between Dreams and Disruptions
May Kosba
Crime and Dystopia in Three Egyptian Novels: Dissecting Cityscapes and the Body as a Terrain for Political Critique
Dalia Said Mostafa
Tobacco Cultivation in the West Bank Between Economic Survival and Settler-Colonial Constraints
Kholoud Al-Ajarma, D. A. Jaber, and Jawida Mansour
Palestinian Farmers’ Resilience Against the Settler Colonial-Capitalist Production of Vulnerability in the Jordan Valley
Fairouz Salem
ESSAYS: “Seismic Shifts” in the Middle East
Introduction: “Seismic Shifts” in the Middle East? Reflections From MESA Global Academy Scholars
Diana B. Greenwald
Authoritarianism Reinvented: Post-Assad Syria and the Strategic Reorientation of the Arab East
Dina Hadad
Ruling in the Grey Zones: Hybrid Warfare and the Remaking of Political Order in the Middle East
Nadia Al-Sakkaf
REVIEWS
The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century
By Zozan Pehlivan
Reviewed by Deren Ertas
The Untold Story of the Golan Heights: Occupation, Colonization, and Jawlani Resistance
Edited by Muna Dajani, Munir Fakher Eldin, and Michael Mason
Reviewed by Gary Fields
Egypt’s Beer: Stella, Identity, and the Modern State
By Omar D. Foda
Reviewed by Kaleb Herman Adney
The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East
Edited by Hala Auji, Raphael Cormack, and Alaaeldin Mahmoud
Reviewed by Adéla Provazníková
A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon
By Munira Khayyat
Reviewed by Susann Kassem
Arab Studies Journal is a peer-reviewed, independent, multidisciplinary journal of Middle Eastern and North African Studies. It is published twice a year by the Arab Studies Institute (ASI) and is affiliated with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University.
Contact Email
coeditors@arabstudiesjournal.org
URL
http://www.arabstudiesjournal.org/
7. Jobs:
University of Massachusetts Amherst – Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East
https://networks.h-net.org/jobs/69505/university-massachusetts-amherst-assistant-professor-history-modern-middle-east
New York University Abu Dhabi – NYUAD Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World – Postdoctoral Fellowship
https://networks.h-net.org/jobs/69504/new-york-university-abu-dhabi-nyuad-humanities-research-fellowship-study-arab-world
8. Séminaire “L’Afghanistan à travers les âges” – 3e séance mercredi 3 décembre 18h-19h30
nous avons le plaisir de vous convier à la troisième séance du séminaire “L’Afghanistan à travers les âges”, qui se tiendra mercredi 3 décembre 2025, 18h-19h30, en salle 3.01 à l’INaLCO(65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 3eétage).
Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir Mme. Ella Kempf, Inalco-Cermi, pour une conférence intitulée : Des montagnes, des plantes et des hommes : Agriculture et savoirs botaniques dans la vallée de Bamiyân du Moyen-âge à nos jours.
Résumé:
Après une introduction d’Arezou Azad consacrée aux Cahiers de Bâmiyân et à leur contribution à l’étude de la vie paysanne de l’Afghanistan médiéval, cette communication présentera les premières données archéobotaniques de la vallée de Bâmiyân ainsi que les perspectives d’un projet de recherche sur le patrimoine naturel et archéologique afghan.La première partie portera sur les résultats préliminaires de l’étude carpologique du site médiéval de Shahr-e Gholgholah, Cette analyse révèle une grande diversité d’espèces économiques et sauvages, témoignant de l’agriculture et de l’exploitation des ressources végétales au XIIIe siècle. La deuxième partie abordera la mission de fouilles conduite en novembre 2025 à Shahr-e Zohak, et la collecte de nouveaux échantillons destinés à approfondir notre compréhension du paysage culturel et naturel de la région. Enfin, la description de la végétation et des cultures actuelles de la vallée de Bâmiyân permettra d’observer l’évolution des interactions entre les populations locales et leur environnement au cours du temps, tout en interrogeant le rôle de l’altitude dans les choix agricoles.
Orientations bibliographiques:
- Baker P.H.B. et Allchin F.R. 1991. Shahr-i Zohak and the history of Bamiyan valley Afghanistan. Archaeopress. 234 p.
- Bendezu-Sarmiento J. 2022. Archaeological Survey and First Preliminary Results of the Site of Shahr-i Gholghola (Afghanistan), in C. Baumer, M. Novák, et S. Rutishauser (dir.), Cultures in contact: Central Asia as focus of trade, cultural exchange and knowledge transmission, Wiesbaden, Allemagne, Harrassowitz Verlag.
- Freitag H. 1971b. Studies on the natural vegetation of Afghanistan. In: Davis P.H. et al.: Plant Life of South West Asia, Edinburgh.
- Taskhir A. 1947. Insect fauna of Afghanistan: The Entomological Society of India. Reprinted from the Indian Journal of Entomology, Bangalore City.
- Younos C. 1970. La végétation de Bamiyan à Band-e Amir. in Paysages du centre de l’Afghanistan. Paysages naturels, paysages culturels. Hindou-Kouch, Lacs de Band-e Amir, Vallée de Bâmiyân. CEREDAF, Paris. 224 p.
Vous trouverez l’intégralité du programme 2025-2026 du séminaire mensuel de recherche “L’Afghanistan à travers les âges” en ligne sur le site du CeRMI: L’Afghanistan à travers les âges – Centre de recherche sur le monde iranien
Bien cordialement,
Arezou Azad et Matteo De Chiara
9. The Latin America and Caribbean Islamic Studies Newsletter
Vol. 5, no. 4 | Fall 2025
https://www.lacisa.org/newsletter
10. Upcoming BRISMES Event | Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize Showcase & Careers Conversatio
Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize Showcase & Careers Conversation
Monday, 8 December 2025, 3-4:30pm (GMT)
BRISMES invites you to celebrate this year’s recipients of the Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize, awarded annually to the writer of the best PhD dissertation submitted at a British university on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities. Prize winners and runners-up will present highlights from their research and share their academic plans moving forward. Senior scholars in attendance will offer comments and career guidance, creating a space that both honours excellence and supports early-career development. This event is open to anyone interested in Middle East research, especially final-year PhD students and early-career academics looking to learn more about the prize and future pathways in academia.
Speakers:
- Dr Sara Abdel Ghany (2025 Joint Winner)
- Dr Eirik Kvindesland (2025 Joint Runner Up)
- Dr Kristine L. Sheets (2025 Joint Runner Up)
Chairs and discussants:
- Dr Sabiha Allouche (BRISMES Outreach and Pedagogy Committee)
- Dr Wassim Naboulsi (BRISMES Outreach and Pedagogy Committee)
- Prof Nicola Pratt (BRISMES President)
More information and registration:
11. ONLINE Webinar: ‘Beyond the Botanical with Persian collections at Kew Gardens’ Library and Archives’
British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS), 10 December, 2025, 5:00 pm UK Time
This talk explores Persian materials in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, focusing on the unexpected cultural and social histories preserved within a botanical archive. While the exhibition Persia Reimagined: From Herbarium to Heritage (30 September 2025 – 22 January 2026) is rooted in plant expeditions and specimens, it highlights how collectors recorded much more than flora.
Their diaries, labels, photographs, and sketches captured the foods they ate, the buildings they stayed in, the landscapes they admired, and the people they encountered. These traces reveal overlooked dimensions of daily life in early 20th-century Iran, preserved—almost incidentally—within a scientific archive.
By drawing attention to these hidden layers, the talk invites a reconsideration of what botanical collections can tell us, beyond science. It also reflects on the process of curating an exhibition from these materials, including the development of outreach activities and community workshops designed to bring Kew’s Persian collections into dialogue with contemporary audiences.
This is an online event. Register in advance to take part.
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_m8KyDi_OR3WY_N2TJLBdyA#/registration
12. Applications Open: VIVAMENTE GRANT IN THE HISTORY OF IDEAS 2026
The Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR) invites applications for the 2026 VivaMente Grant, The Garden of Ideas.
VivaMente: The Garden of Ideas
Deadline: 28 February 2026
Grant amount: up to €5,000
The scheme supports outstanding proposals in the history of ideas and intellectual history, from antiquity to the contemporary period, across philosophy, science, medicine and technology.
VivaMente provides substantial financial and logistical support for a two-day event in Pisa. Each funded proposal receives up to €5,000 together with complimentary use of the Domus Comeliana. Eligible formats include conferences, workshops, seminars, exhibitions and public engagement events. Multidisciplinary approaches are welcome, provided the core focus remains on the history of ideas.
VivaMente is competitive and offers an important platform for both senior and early-career scholars.
Full details are available at:
https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/grants-and-awards/vivamente-grant/
Applicants are welcome to contact the Centre (info@csmbr.fondazionecomel.org) with any questions.
Fabrizio Bigotti
Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR) – Director
Domus Comeliana, Via Cardinale Maffi 48, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Tel.: +39.02.006.20.51 – Mobile: +39.333.13.12.203
Email: fb@csmbr.fondazionecomel.org
David Durand-Guédy
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Published Online on 21 November 2025
14. Associate Professorship (or Professorship) and Tutorial Fellowship in Modern Middle Eastern History 1830-1970
University of Oxford
Trinity College and the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford are seeking to appoint an outstanding historian with teaching and research interests in the modern history of the Middle East and North Africa (c.1830 to c.1970) as a Tutorial Fellow and Associate Professor of History. This post is available from 1st October 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter.
Deadline | 7 January 2026
15. Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Paper Prize for Early Career Scholars 2025
Prize | CPD Working Group, BISA
The prize is aimed at supporting CPD’s early-career members in the development of peer-reviewed work, while at the same time carving out space in International Studies to engage with the question of empire and coloniality as fundamental to the discipline. The winning paper will be chosen by a panel nominated by the conveners of the Colonial, Postcolonial, and Decolonial Working Group and the editors of Review of International Studies (RIS), a BISA journal.
Deadline | 31 December 2025
16. Call for Papers | Reconstruction
Journal | Oxford Middle East Review (OMER)
The editors welcome submissions for the tenth anniversary issue of OMER, a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal. This issue invites contributors to think broadly about the forms that reconstruction can take, be it physical, political, environmental, or cultural. How are futures imagined after crisis? What new solidarities, aesthetics, or institutions materialize when old structures collapse? How do processes of reconstruction engage with memory, and justice? And what happens when reconstruction itself becomes a site of contestation, shaped by global capital, humanitarian intervention, and ideology?
Deadline | 4 January 2025
17. Education and Scholarships (Coordinator)
Caabu and Amjad & Suha Bseisu Foundation
Applications are invited for this shared role working three days a week for the Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu) and two days a week for the Bseisu Foundation.
Deadline | 7 December 2025
18. Conference “Exploring the Sacred: People, Place and Power in the Islamic Indian Ocean”, National University of Singapore, 4-5 December 2025
The historical and contemporary papers explore the sacred by grounding it in the archives, texts, material culture, and ethnographies of the Islamic Indian Ocean. Papers focus on local or transregional processes and themes.
Information, program and abstracts: https://tinyurl.com/4p8kupaf
19. HYBRID “Seventh Annual Islamic Philosophy Conference”, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 5-7 December 2025
We invite academic studies of scholars, methods, institutions, texts, and topics typically considered within the domain of philosophy, as well as those that treat kalam-theology, Islamic legal philosophy (usul al-fiqh), or other intellectual trends that at times may be seen as distinct from philosophy.
Information and registration: https://asipt.org/conferences/
- November 29, 2025
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Shii News – Post: ‘Research Assistant (0.06 FTE), Shiite Geopolitics’ (Birkbeck, University of London)
Closing date: Monday 15 December 2025,
- November 26, 2025
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Early Career Rescue Fellowship
Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), the Tübingen College of Fellows (CoF), and the Zukunftskolleg Konstanz (ZuKo) invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA, to apply for the Baden-Württemberg Early Career Rescue Fellowships 2026-2028 (Ref. No. 2025/229)
Deadline for applications: 9 January 2025. Information: https://tinyurl.com/3j7bh626
2. Two Humanities Research Fellowships (10 Months) for the Study of the Arab World, NYU Abu Dhabi
We welcome applications from recent PhD graduates (PhD in hand between September 2021 and September 2026) working in all areas of the Humanities related to the study of the Arab world, its rich literature and history, its cultural and artistic heritage, and its manifold connections with other cultures and regions.
Deadline for applications: 5 January 2025. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/160447
3. 20 ANAMED Fellowships (2026-2027) for Studies on Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University, Istanbul
Koç University invites applications from scholars specializing in archaeology, art history, history, cultural heritage, and related disciplines of Anatolia from the Neolithic to the Ottoman period. Research grants will be awarded to approximately 10 PhD students, 10 postdoctoral and senior researchers to spend one academic year.
Deadline for applications: 15 December 2025. Information: https://anamed.ku.edu.tr/en/fellowships/
4. Full Time Lecturer in Arabic, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania
Candidates should possess an M.A. in Arabic language and culture. Applicants with a more advanced degree in a field related to Arabic language, literature and culture will also be considered. Successful candidates are expected to demonstrate a proven record of excellence in teaching Arabic as a foreign language. We especially welcome candidates with experience teaching Levantine Arabic and who can offer courses on media, popular culture, or Arabic in the digital age.
Deadline for applications: 15 January 2026. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/177559
5. Appel à candidatures “Prix de thèse Islam, Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans 2026”, CNRS & IISMM
Sont éligibles des travaux soutenus en français ou en France entre le 1er janvier 2024 et le 31 décembre 2025, dans toutes les disciplines des lettres et sciences humaines et sociales. L’organisation de ces prix de thèse entend distinguer des travaux de recherche portant sur l’Islam, le Moyen-Orient et les mondes musul-mans, caractérisés par leur excellence et leur caractère particulièrement innovant.
Date limite : 16 janvier 2026. Information : https://iismm.
6. New Books:
Social Anthropology in the Arab World – The Fragmented History of a Contested Discipline, Edited by Abdullah Alajmi, Daniele Cantini, Irene Maffi and Imed Melliti, Berghan New York/Oxford, 384 pages
Information: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/AlajmiSocial
Corruption in the Ottoman Polity – Empirical Insights, Conceptual Reflections, Edited by Boğaç A. Ergene and Cengiz Kırlı, Edinburg University Press, 352 pages
Information: https://tinyurl.com/mr34dbb7
7. CfP : Arab Media and Society
Call for Papers, Issue 40 – Media & Geopolitics in the Arab World
The deadline to send submissions for peer review is December 1, 2025.
The Arab world today stands at the intersection of shifting global alliances, prolonged conflicts, and the rise of new powers competing for influence across the Middle East. Media plays a pivotal role in this environment, not only as a mirror reflecting events but also as an active participant shaping narratives, identities, and public opinion. The coverage of wars and conflicts, the construction of national and regional soft power, and the increasingly blurred lines between journalism, strategic communication, and digital activism underscore the centrality of media in contemporary geopolitics.
Traditional and new media platforms are being mobilized in different ways: to wage information wars, to brand nations in global markets, to influence foreign policy debates, and to create alternative narratives that challenge dominant Western perspectives. At the same time, transformations in media ownership, the rise of AI-driven technologies, and the expanding role of transnational digital platforms are reshaping how politics is communicated and contested across the region.
For its 40th issue, Arab Media & Society invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit contributions that critically interrogate the nexus between media and geopolitics in the Arab world. We welcome theoretically informed and empirically grounded research that sheds light on how media institutions, journalists, communicators, and audiences engage with, resist, or reproduce geopolitical agendas.
Key Themes
Submissions may explore, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- War, Conflict, and Crisis Coverage
- Media framing of ongoing conflicts in Palestine, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, and Syria.
- The politics of visibility and invisibility in reporting war casualties, refugees, and humanitarian crises.
- The use of disinformation, propaganda, and psychological operations in digital and broadcast media.
- AI and algorithmic mediation of war coverage: from drone footage to automated verification.
- Soft Power and Nation Branding
- Competition among Arab states in projecting global soft power through media, cultural industries, and sports.
- The use of mega-events (World Cup, Expo, film festivals) as tools of geopolitical communication.
- Strategic employment of influencers, YouTubers, and content creators in diplomacy and branding.
- The role of Arabic-language global networks (Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, Sky News Arabia) in shaping international perceptions.
- Shifting Media Ownership and Power Structures
- Privatization and consolidation of Arab media industries.
- The role of sovereign wealth funds, multinational corporations, and foreign investment in Arab media.
- Cross-border media influence and the geopolitics of satellite television.
- Global technology platforms (Meta, X, TikTok, YouTube) as new geopolitical actors in Arab media ecosystems.
- New Forms of Communicating Politics
- Digital activism and the reconfiguration of political participation in the Arab world.
- Online censorship, surveillance, and digital authoritarianism.
- Diaspora and exiled media’s role in reshaping Arab geopolitics.
- The aesthetics of resistance: memes, short videos, and digital humor as political communication.
- Emerging and Cross-Cutting Themes
- Climate change, environmental diplomacy, and media representations in the Arab region.
- Migration, borders, and the geopolitics of Arab media coverage.
- Gender and geopolitics: women journalists, feminized narratives of conflict, and representation of gendered violence.
- AI, cyber warfare, and the weaponization of digital communication.
- Religious media, sectarian narratives, and their geopolitical implications.
- The Arab-Israeli conflict in contemporary media ecologies and its global resonances.
The above list is a non-exhaustive set for suggested areas of research. We welcome contributions that explore other dimensions related to media and conflict in the Arab region.
Submission Guidelines:
All submissions must be in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx), adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style, and have a maximum length of 10,000 words (including footnotes and citations).
Please include the author’s name (as it should be published), their affiliation, and a brief abstract of no more than 150 words.
Deadline for Full Papers:
December 1, 2025 for peer-reviewed submissions and December 15, 2025 for all other submissions.
Please email all submissions to: editor@arabmediasociety.com For further information regarding our publishing policies, kindly visit: www.arabmediasociety.com/publishing-policies/
Contact Information:
For any inquiries regarding the call for papers, please contact: editor@arabmediasociety.com.
Thank you for your interest and support of Arab Media & Society.
8. Book Launch & Celebration — Fereshteh Molavi’s “Stories from Tehran” (Nov 29, Toronto)
Join us for an unforgettable evening celebrating Fereshteh Molavi and her new collection Stories from Tehran, published by Asemana Books — in collaboration with Zagros Foundation & 2:45 Literature Circle, co-sponsored by Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies, and supported by Noghreh publishing house, Moj Orchestra and Insufin Insurance.
Featuring speakers: Mahdiyeh Ezzatikarami, Mahdi Ganjavi, Diana Manole, Mohsen Maleki, Sasan Qahreman, Niaz Salimi & Marta Simidchieva
With a special note from: Houra Yavari
Plus: the premiere of a short film by 2:45 Literature Circle, inspired by Molavi’s stories
Music: Musical performance by Moj Orchestra, conductor Saman Mohammadnabi
Bilingual: English & Persian
Saturday, Nov 29
6:00–8:00 PM
North York Memorial Community Hall, 5110 Yonge St, Toronto
To read more about this book:
https://asemanabooks.ca/stories-from-tehran/
Asemana Books
- November 25, 2025
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- November 24, 2025
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.THE TEXTILE MUSEUM JOURNAL SYMPOSIUM
Please join us for The Textile Museum Journal Symposium, a special program celebrating the centennial year of The Textile Museum on December 6, 2025. This free virtual program features interviews conducted with four authors who contributed to this year’s The Textile Museum Journal, which focused on new research illuminating aspects of The Textile Museum Collection.
For description of the program and to register, please visit: https://museum.gwu.edu/textile-museum-journal-symposium
2. The Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections is pleased to announce an online training introducing the Islamic art, architecture, and history of al-Andalus, taking place 1- 4 December 2025.
This short online series will introduce participants to the diversity of the art and architecture of al-Andalus (Islamic Iberia) from the eighth through fifteenth centuries. These sessions will cover broad historical context as well as the defining art and architecture of the key dynasties of the region, including the Cordoban Umayyad caliphate.
- Schedule: Each 1.5-hour session will be held between 12pm – 1:30pm – US / 5pm – 6:30pm UK/ 8pm – 9:30pm Istanbul
- Format: Live online on Zoom
- Topic: art, architecture, and history of al-Andalus
- Places are limited
Instructor: Dr. Sarah Slingluff, Postdoctoral Associate, Medieval Islamic Art, Art History and Archaeology University of Maryland & Lead Educator, Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections
Contact Information
Dr. Glaire Anderson
Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art, School of History of Art, University of Edinburgh
Founding Director, Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections
Contact Email
URL
https://digitallabivcc.com/intro-to-al-andalus/
3. The programme for the 2025 annual meeting of MESA (Middle East Studies Association of North America) commencing Saturday, 22 November,
can be found at:
https://mesana.org/annual-meeting/program
4. Le CeRMI a le plaisir de vous convier à la prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du Monde iranien”, qui se tiendra jeudi 27 novembre 2025, 17h-19h, en salle 5.21 à l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 5eétage).
Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir notre collègue M. Julien Thorez, géographe, Chargé de recherche au CNRS (CeRMI) et Directeur de CartOrient, pour une conférence intitulée : De la maison à la to’yhona. Une géographie des cérémonies rituelles en Asie centrale.
Résumé:
Fondée sur des enquêtes et des relevés de terrain réalisées dans le cadre du projet ANR Ceremoniac « Fabriquer les inégalités ou construire le lien social. L’économie cérémonielle en Asie centrale soviétique et post-soviétique (1960 – 2020), cette intervention propose une approche géographique des cérémonies qui ponctuent le cycle de vie en Asie centrale. D’une part, elle souhaite montrer combien la préparation et la célébration de ces rites de passage, et en particulier des mariages, marquent le paysage, s’inscrivent dans l’espace et façonnent le territoire. D’autre part, elle développe une analyse des ancrages géographiques de l’économie rituelle qui révèle que les lieux du mariage se sont multipliés, spécialisés et disséminés au cours des dernières décennies. Elle montre que s’est opéré un déplacement de la préparation et de la célébration des to’y des espaces domestiques vers des espaces privés spécialisés et des espaces publics, c’est-à-dire de la maison vers la ville, dans un contexte de commercialisation et de spécialisation de l’économie rituelle.
Orientations bibliographiques:
– Abashin, S. N. 1999a Vopreki « zdravomu smysli » ? K voprosy o racional’nosti / irracional’nosti ritual’nyh rashodov v Srednej Azii, Vestnik Evrazii (1-2), pp. 87-107.
– Azimova, N. 2020 Ritual’naja èkonomika na primere svadebnyh obrjadov. Namangan, 2018 god, Obščestvo, gender i sem’ja v Central’noj Azii 4, pp. 87-106.
– Borisova, E. & S. Torno 2024 Images of Care: Marriage, family making, and the reproduction of the social order in Tajikistan, Journal of Eurasian Studies pp. 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/18793665241256969
– Cleuziou, J. 2024 Mariées à tout prix. Parcours de femmes, échanges rituels et démariages au Tadjikistan (Nanterre, Société d’ethnologie).
– Di Méo, G. 2001b Le sens géographique des fêtes, Annales de géographie 110(622), pp. 624-646.
– Ilkhamov, A. 2013 Labour Migration and the Ritual Economy of Uzbek Extended, Family Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 138(2), pp. 259-284.
– Khamrakulov, B. 2017 Wedding traditions and customs of Samarkand People (Tachkent, Yangi asr avlodi).
– Lobacheva, N.P. 1975 Formirovanie novoj obrjadnosti Uzbekov (Moscou, Nauka).
– Merchant Henson, T. 2005 Tradition et construction identitaire dans la musique de mariage des femmes ouzbèkes : à propos du kelin salom, Cahiers d’ethnomusicologie 18, pp. 39-50.
https://journals.openedition.org/ethnomusicologie/244?lang=fr
– Pétric, B.-M. 2002 Pouvoir, don et réseaux en Ouzbékistan post-soviétique (Paris, PUF).
– Reeves, M. 2012 Black work, green money: Remittances, ritual and domestic economies in southern Kyrgyzstan, Slavic Review 71(1), pp. 108-134.
– Ruffier, A. 2007 Samarcande – Identités et espaces festifs en Ouzbékistan (Montreuil, Aux lieux d’être).
– Sadigov, T. 2020 Household overspending on marriage: the scale of the problem and governement reactions around the world International, Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 40(11-12), pp. 1509-1532.
– Trevisani, T. 2016 Modern weddings in Uzbekistan: ritual hange from ‘above’ and from ‘below’, Central Asian Survey35(1), pp. 61-75.
– Turdalieva, Ch. & R. Provis 2017 Dynamics of Reciprocity and Networks of the Kyrgyz through Bishkek Toi Making, Central Asian Affairs (2), pp. 197-216.
– Werner, C. 1997 Marriage, Markets, and Merchants: Changes in Wedding Feasts and Household Consumption Patterns in Rural Kazakhstan, Culture & Agriculture 9(1-2), pp. 6-13.
Vous retrouverez prochainement l’intégralité du programme 2025-2026 du séminaire mensuel de recherche “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du Monde iranien” en ligne sur le site du CeRMI: https://cermi.cnrs.fr/seminaires-de-recherche/societes-politiques-et-cultures-du-monde-iranien-2025-2026/
Dans l’attente du plaisir de vous retrouver à l’occasion de ces séances, qui se déroulent en présentiel sur le site de l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII).
Bien cordialement,
Les organisateurs –
Simon Berger et Justine Landau
Contact: justine.landau@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr
5. Language, History, and Legacy: The New Issue of AUB’s Al-Abhath
https://executive-bulletin.com/education/language-history-and-legacy-the-new-issue-of-aubs-al-abhath
6. The history of Jewish communities in the Persian speaking world from the 19th century until today
Job ID: IFI114DOC225
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=pp87whtumr1xj5anw9ibr7bz48un944
The Austrian Academy of Sciences – ÖAW, the largest, non-university research center for foundational reseach is searching for a candidate for the position of a Prae-doc (Diss) (70%).
Your Tasks
The position is allocated within the framework of the ERC Project Persian Jews – History, Community, Memory. The research explores the history of Jewish communities in the Persian speaking world from the 19th century until today and is based on anthropological and historical methods and research questions, emphasizing original sources in Persian, Hebrew, and Judeo-Persian. It analyses the status of Jewish communities in the environment in which they lived, the circumstances of leaving and settling in new places and how the memory of the past is created in these processes. While the project emphasizes cultural and socio-economic dynamics, a strong focus is on the development and dissemination of religious thought among Persian speaking Jews and their interaction with other Jewish and non-Jewish communities. Besides the praedoc position, the project team includes two post-doctoral researchers in addition to the PI. As a whole, the research team is committed to a fruitful interdisciplinary dialogue and seeks cooperation with the regions involved in order to promote plurilateral research perspectives.
The doctoral position is assigned to research on religious and literary aspects of 19th to early 20th-century Judeo-Persian communities. This includes the production and dissemination of texts, religious education and mysticism, as well as the exchange of these ideas in specific locales throughout the 19th to the 20th century (for example between Bukhara, Tehran and Jerusalem). The focus is envisaged in terms of historical and religious studies.
The successful candidate will pursue a PhD dissertation at the University of Vienna (cooperation / enrollment at another university possible upon agreement), while being integrated in the Institute of Iranian Studies.
Within the larger research project, the position offers the opportunity to link focused research on Persian Jewish communities to larger questions in the humanities, to develop research in continuous inter-disciplinary exchange and to thereby develop a broader outlook on the area of study. Opportunities for mentoring and training in career-relevant skills are available.
Your tasks:
- Pursuing a PhD dissertation project within the ERC project PersCom
- Presence in Vienna and engagement in the project as an active team member
- Active participation in the project’s activities in the domains of research and knowledge transfer
- International presentations and publication of project results
- Active participation in the activities of the Institute for Iranian Studies
Your Profile
- Completed MA in a humanities field relevant to the study of Jewish history in modern Iran or Central Asia
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills the languages relevant to your research (Persian, Hebrew)
- Good written and verbal communication skills in English, ability to publish academic articles in English
- Knowledge of Judeo-Persian and religious traditions among Iranian and / or Central Asian Jewish communities
- Openness to interdisciplinary collaboration and dialogue
- Initiative and ability to work in a team
Our Offer
The position is awarded on a basis for 36 months (1 year + extension for 2 years) for an annual gross salary of € 39.208,80 paid out conditional on proof of enrolment at the university. PhD supervision arrangements depend on the chosen focus.
Please apply online including a (1) cover letter, (2) academic CV and (3) outline of planned dissertation project of research interest later than January 16, 2026. Any queries may be directed to Dr. Ariane Sadjed: ariane.sadjed@oeaw.ac.at
Use this link to apply: JETZT BEWERBEN Klicken Sie auf diesen Link, um sich für die Stelle zu bewerben.
The Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) pursues a non-discriminatory employment policy and places great importance on equal opportunities and diversity. In particular, individuals from underrepresented groups are expressly encouraged to apply.
Contact
Main Contact: Dr. Ariane Sadjed ariane.sadjed@oeaw.ac.at
Institute for Iranian Studies, A-1020 Vienna, Austria
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften | Austrian Academy of Sciences
7. The University of Edinburgh
Caliphal Finances Research Fellow
Apply Before: 09/12/2025, 23:59
Caliphal Finances Research Fellow – University of Edinburgh Careers
8. UCLA:
Pourdavoud Lecture Series
Greek-Persian Encounters c. 550 – c. 330 BCE: Looking Beyond Stereotypes
Antigoni Zournatzi
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 at 4:00 pm Pacific Time
Royce Hall 306 and Via Zoom
9. Fifth Meeting of the Avicenna Study Group now also an online event! (2–4 December 2025)
Due to many inquires we have received from international colleagues who are unable to travel to Bochum and to attend the upcoming Fifth International Meeting of the Avicenna Study Group at the “Avicenna Study Center” (2–4 December 2025) in person, we have decided to make the event also available online via Zoom. In order to “zoom in”, please use the following link and credentials:
Link: https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/66612022942?pwd=3a2ddwbNacDIBYsDKVe0bKOAEKcjFs.1
Meeting-ID: 666 1202 2942
Password: 938409
10. Ferdowsi School of Persian Literature:
Three freshly announced courses on my website:
Advanced Middle Persian: Pahlavi Texts in Pahlavi Script (Weekly), January 24 – March 14, 2026.
The Shahname: Introduction to the Iranian Epic (Weekly), January 9 – February 27, 2026. During this edition we will be reading the chapter on thepādešāhi-ye Eskandar.
In addition, here is a recently published small list of “8 Must-Know Digital Projects in Iranian and Central Asian Studies” for you! You might find it useful.
Yours sincerely,
Ruben S. Nikoghosyan
Ferdowsi School of Persian Literature
Yerevan, Armenia
Website: www.ferdowsi.org
11. Edinburgh University Press:
Introducing Women Interpreting Islamic Law
Series Editors: Masooda Bano, Mirjam Künkler & Khaled Abou El Fadle
A home for new scholarship on women’s Islamic-juristic authority from the prophet’s era until today
Many influential women (ʿalimāt, muftiyāt, qadiyāt, mujtahidāt) in Islam’s past and present exercise(d) juristic authority, by issuing fatwas, informing Islamic legal court judgments, writing judicial treatises, and contributing to highly expert juristic scholarship. Women Interpreting Islamic Law features the best of new scholarship on women who built their religious authority through writing, interpreting or commenting on Islamic legal and juristic texts.
Find out more about Women Interpreting Islamic Law ( https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fddlnk.net%2Fc%2FAQjSfRCVwqMHGPmorJQFIITb7qkBKKiRjEHR6gTZP2H0nzB4RMojfHdR1uOcCZyZuZaUoFO-8IzTjw&data=05%7C02%7C%7Cf931a6838e014c82a83e08de28d442b8%7C2e9f06b016694589878910a06934dc61%7C0%7C0%7C638993089276238269%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=oTpkJ1ZuRh8oOquOCkWupKOS7B6stcbuZmhGVGM4%2FEg%3D&reserved=0 )
12. Homeira Qaderi webinar with “Universal Language” screenwriters
12/1 12pm Eastern
The last Yale Iran Colloquium Persian-language webinar of 2025 will be a conversation between our wonderful writer in residence Homeira Qaderi and three of the main participants in the writing of Matthew Rankin’s 2024 film Universal Language/Avaz-e buqalamun. I think most of this list would enjoy the film, set in a version of Winnipeg where everyone speaks Persian and the atmosphere is thick with Iranian New Wave allusions.
Rankin’s co-screenwriters Ila Firouzabadi and Pirouz Nemati (who also co-stars with Rankin) and script consultant Armin Firouzabadi deserve much of the credit for its intensely specific Persian-Canadian fantasia. (They’re each also brilliant artists: Ila sculpts, Pirouz directs, Armin just came out with a lovely album.) And who better than Qaderi, a major Afghan novelist, to discuss diasporic Persian poetics with Nemati and the siblings Firouzabadi?
The session will be on Monday Dec. 1 at noon Eastern US time, and will be conducted in Persian. If you’re interested, sign up for the webinar here. If you’re near New Haven, we have a screening of the film that same Thursday Dec. 4 at 7pm (full details here), and otherwise, at least in the US, the film can also be rented online.
13. CUP: 40% off the latest Middle East studies titles for MESA2025
14. ONLINE Seminar “How Mediterranean French Became a Language of Contact between East and West”, German Historical Institutes in Paris and Rome, 25 November 2025, 17:00 – 18:00 CET
In the second half of the thirteenth century a linguistic shift started to unfold where vernacular languages began to flourish. The seminar will discuss how Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean became a site of intellectual, spiritual and linguistic contact, and what theoretical models were set in place to make this contact possible.
Information and registration: https://tinyurl.com/3tryebpw
15. HYBRID Book Launch: “Islamic Law in Saudi Arabia” by Dominik Krell, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, 1 December 2025, 12:30 – 14:00 CET
The book offers an in-depth exploration of the Saudi judiciary in the twenty-first century. Drawing on Saudi legal literature and court judgments, as well as interviews with leading members of the judiciary, the book addresses two central questions: first, what is the Saudi jurists’ understanding of an Islamic judiciary? And second, how is this understanding reflected in the Saudi legal system, its laws, institutions, and court practices?
Information and registration:
https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/event/book-launch-islamic-law-saudi-arabia-dominik-krell
16. ONLINE Panel Session “Totally Glocally: Defending Academic Freedom – Developments and Challenges in the US and EU”, Forum for International Cultural Relations, Stuttgart, 3 December 2025, 18:00 – 19:15 CET
What risks arise for democratic societies when academic freedom is restricted and liberal scientific trends at universities are repressed? How can universities and research institutions become more resilient in order to secure their independence from funding bodies, whether state or private sector? How might illiberal practices affecting higher education institutions and academics themselves be described in more detail?
Information and registration: https://tinyurl.com/27eh98c8
17. ONLINE Book Talk “Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil” by Dr. Safaruk Chowdhury, American University in Cairo Press, 9 December 2025, 18:00 CET
This book explores four different problems of evil: human disability, animal suffering, evolutionary natural selection, and Hell. Each study argues in favor of a particular kind of explanation or justification (theodicy) for the respective evil. Safaruk Chowdhury unpacks the notion of evil and its conceptualization within the mainstream Sunni theological tradition, and the various ways in which theologians and philosophers within that tradition have advanced different types of theodicies.
Information and registration: https://tinyurl.com/mzf2uxaf
18. Workshop “From Manga to Manifesto: Youth Culture, Protest, and the Global Circulations of ONE PIECE”, University of Hamburg, 26-27 March 2026
We invite contributions that investigate the transnational lives of symbols, the appropriation of Japanese visual culture in African and Middle Eastern contexts, and the ways in which global media imaginaries shape local expressions of political agency. How does ONE PIECE’s narrative of freedom, friendship, and resistance against corrupt authority resonate with the lived experiences of young activists in postcolonial societies?
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2025. Information: https://tinyurl.com/ynm6zjwf
19. Two Postdoctoral Researcher Positions in South Asian Studies and Conflict Studies (Focus on the MENA Region), Alliance of Civilizations Institute, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul
Qualifications: PhD degree completed within the last five years. – For South Asian Studies: proficiency in English and at least one regional language. – For Conflict Studies: proficiency in both Arabic and English. Completed an MA or PhD degree in conflict studies (or in related discipline with a thesis on conflicts in the MENA region), have knowledge of conflicts, preferably in the MENA region.
Deadline for applications: 5 December 2025. Information: https://tinyurl.com/y45mvmfu
20. Postdoctoral Fellowship (Academic Year 2026-27) in Turkish Studies, Columbia University, New York City
The fellowship competition is open to candidates who have received their Ph.D. degree in the humanities or social sciences after 1 May 2023, and have written a dissertation on a topic related to Turkish Studies.
Deadline for applications: 15 December 2025. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/176852
21. Call for Articles for “Maydan: Journal of Arab, Semitic and Islamic Worlds”
The journal is aimed at PhD candidates, recent graduates, and Master’s students. It revolves around a broad conception of the Arab, Semitic and Islamic worlds, whi includes the SWANA region (Southwest Asia and North Africa), the Sahel, the Caucasus, as well as Central and South-East Asia. Maydan also welcomes submissions regarding the connections between these geographical areas and Europe, the Americas and the rest of the world. In the same vein, it appreciates contributions exploring the presence and the experiences of Arab, Semitic and Islamic worlds outside regions traditionally seen as “Arab” or “Islamic”, whi highlight the differences within these worlds. With this view, Maydan welcomes contributions focused on the connections between these areas and other communities and political, economic, social, and cultural dynamics affecting our globalized world.
Deadline for abstracts: 17 December 2025. Information: https://tinyurl.com/u7dsmv3y
- November 22, 2025
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Dr. Christine Kämpfer – Rewriting Romance: Khvājū Kirmānī’s Humāy-u Humāyūn as a Post-Mongol Epic [Nov. 22]
Please join us for a zoom lecture as part of UBC’s Alireza Ahmadian Lecture Series on Saturday, Nov. 22 at 11am PST (2pm EST; 8pm CET) for a lecture by Dr. Christine Kämpfer (University of Bamberg) on “Rewriting Romance: Khvājū Kirmānī’s Humāy-u Humāyūn as a Post-Mongol Epic.”
Humāy u Humāyūn recounts the love story of the Syrian prince Humāy, who falls for the Chinese princess Humāyūn and embarks on an adventurous quest to find her. The epic was composed in 1331 by Khvājū Kirmānī at the court of the last Ilkhanid ruler in Baghdad. With this work, Khvājū continues the Persian romance tradition established by his predecessors Gurgānī and Niẓāmī, yet he faced the challenge of renewing the genre for an audience increasingly attuned to Sufi thought. This talk explores how Khvājū both preserves and transforms the literary heritage, transmitting tradition while simultaneously innovating it.
Christine Kämpfer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Iranian Studies at the University of Bamberg (Germany), where she earned her PhD in 2022. Her research focuses primarily on premodern Persian epic poetry and questions of literary transmission. She also works on German travel writing about Qajar Persia and has published in both areas.
Register for the event here: https://ubc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sikjW4EBS-S1w963zpJi_Q#/registration
2. Online: CLAMS presents THE BACTRIANS, THE KHARAJITS AND THE BARMAKIDS, Friday November 21st at 12 noon EST
https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/U899ul4hTMWjtxEqAzXH_Q
3. 3 December 1:00 PM EST AMECYS Childhood, Lit & Memory Across MENA Roundtable
The roundtable focuses on the works of scholars writing for children and young adults, particularly those aged 8-12. It will explore how childhood memories and experiences are evoked, narrated, and imagined through children’s literature. The discussion will reveal the power of this literature to shape histories, identities, and collective memory. The discussion will engage with the intersections of narrative, art, translation, and memory to reconsider representations of childhood, opening new pathways for understanding history, loss, and imagination. It features works by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay (Golden Threads) and Sabiha Al Khemir (Fables Across Time: Kalila and Dimna), and will be moderated by Yael Warshel.
Event Details:
- Date:Wednesday, December 3
- Time:11:00 am MST | 12:00 pm CST | 1:00 pm EST
- Location: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/7613654977
- RSVP to: amecystudies@gmail.com
To inclusively engage our community in programming, AMECYS will open Zoom tools for translation and transcription to assist those whose abilities are stronger in languages other than spoken English. Additionally, and as feasible, our board members may be available to offer informal simultaneous spoken translation between English and Arabic, French, Turkish, and Hebrew. If you believe you will require the latter form of translation assistance, kindly let us know ahead of time. When you RSVP, simply specify for which language and whether you will require it throughout the roundtable or solely during the Q and A.
Please reach out to the AMECYS’ Program Committee at amecystudies@gmail.com if you have any questions, ideas for talks, and/or recent work you would like to present.
- November 18, 2025
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Online : ‘Shrines and Shrine Culture in Pre-Safavid Shīʿism’ – (19.11.25, 15.30 CET)
with Fuchsia Hart, The Sarikhani Curator for the Iranian Collection at the V&A and Stephennie Mulder, Associate professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.
Register at:
https://universiteitleiden.zoom.us/meeting/register/MGNA8u2HT3Ca1RG5ubxtXA#/registration
To stay updated on upcoming events, learn more about our broader project, “Embodied Imamate: Mapping the Development of the Early Shīʿi Community 700–900 CE,” or watch recordings of previous lectures in this series, please visit our YouTube channel (Embodied Imamate) and our website: https://embodiedimamate.hcommons.org/.
- November 17, 2025
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Four Positions for the Research Project “Alevi Archive”
Four Positions for the Research Project “Alevi Archive: Ethnohistory of Alevi Communities in Ana-tolia, 16th – 20th Century”, Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig
The project will reconstruct the only scarcely explored ethnohistory of the Alevis in Anatolia, focusing on the period from the 16th to the 20th century. It will examine settlement dynamics and the processes of community-building among Alevi groups, as well as their complex relationships with the state, Sunni Muslims, and non-Muslims. Combining a range of methods based on previously unconnected sources—including Ottoman archives, Alevi manuscripts, oral traditions, and material culture—a comprehensive virtual research environment will be developed. This environment will enable the reconstruction of the development of Alevi communities within the context of Ottoman social and religious history from the Early Modern Period to the Modern Era.
The positions are:
Historian as Research associate (m/f/d): https://www.saw-leipzig.de/de/ausschreibungen/stellenausschreibungen/aral-researcher01_engl.pdf/view
Anthropologist as Research associate (m/f/d): https://www.saw-leipzig.de/de/ausschreibungen/stellenausschreibungen/aral-researcher02_engl.pdf/view
Research Software Engineer (m/f/d): https://www.saw-leipzig.de/de/ausschreibungen/stellenausschreibungen/aral-researcher03_engl.pdf/view
Doctoral position Digital Humanities (m/f/d): https://www.saw-leipzig.de/de/ausschreibungen/stellenausschreibungen/aral-dh-doct04_engl.pdf/view
Deadline for applications: 30 November 2025.
- November 17, 2025
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Séminaire L’Asie centrale dans tous ses états, lundi 17 novembre, 14 h 30, EHESS – Aubervilliers
La prochaine séance du séminaire “L’Asie centrale dans tous ses Etats : questions et méthodes” aura lieu lundi 17 novembre, à l’EHESS – Condorcet, salle A515, de 14 h 30 à 16 h 30.
Nous accueillerons Maria Szuppe (CNRS, CeRMI) pour une intervention intitulée : “Une madrasa princière disparue (1799-1800) : topographie historique et étude de documents au service de l’histoire culturelle de Khiva sous les Qungrats”
Si vous n’êtes pas encore inscrit-e et souhaitez y assister ou recevoir le lien de visioconférence, nous vous remercions de bien vouloir vous inscrire au plus tard 48h avant sur https://participations.ehess.fr
2. Post-Doctoral Fellowship – La3M-Aix-Marseille University, France
A new Research Program titled The Indo-Persian Continuum, c. 11th-17th Centuries, directed by Professor Alka Patel and housed at La3M (within Aix-Marseille University’s [AMU] archaeology institute, ARKAIA, MMSH), offers one 3-year (36-month) Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship beginning 1 July 2026. Applications are invited from junior scholars with PhDs conferred within the last three years (i.e. not before June 2023); current doctorands must have PhD in hand by June 2026. Preference will be given to projects on the “Sultanate” period (circa 12th c.-16th c.).
The Program includes two field trips (required), one to India and another to Central Asia. The successful applicant will be a full-time postdoctoral scholar (salaried with health benefits), expected to submit a book manuscript to a reputed academic press, and complete at least one journal article by 30 June 2029. Final works should be composed in English or French. No citizenship restrictions.
Direct queries to alka.patel@univ-amu.fr
Located in the region of Provence, southern France, AMU consists of 114 research units in all disciplines and is among the foremost European universities responding to current global challenges with new research programs. Prominent Humanities alumni hold positions throughout Europe (e.g. Sorbonne Université; Musée du Louvre; Università Napoli – L’Orientale), the US (e.g. UCLA; National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian), and elsewhere. La3M and AMU maintain MOUs with museums, universities, and institutes across Europe and Asia. The Aix-Marseille area offers specialized University libraries, additional resources such as the Archives Nationales d’Outre-Mer, and is nationally and internationally well connected by TGV and air.
To apply, send the following to indopersian.la3m@gmail.com:
1) a three-page Letter of Interest detailing professional history, relevant experience and publication plans;
2) complete CV;
3) entire dissertation if available, if not then dissertation chapter;
4) official graduate transcripts and PhD diploma (if available);
5) book project title and chapter outline (4000-5000 words);
6) supporting materials such as publications;
7) and the names and contact details of three recommenders.
Application deadline is 10 January 2026; finalist interviews in early February, offers by end February 2026.
Contact Email
3. Approaches to Christian-Muslim Encounter in the Modern Era Seminar Series
We are pleased to announce the programme for this year’s Theology & Society in Christianity and Islam Seminar series at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford. This year’s series will focus on Approaches to Christian-Muslim Encounter in the Modern Era. Beginning on 20 November, lectures will take place on Thursdays at 4pm in Lecture Room 1 of the AMES Faculty building (1 Pusey Ln, OX1 2LE). They will also be streamed online via MS Teams. For more information, and to register your interest, please use this link:
https://forms.office.com/e/Y72qDJjK3b.
The first lecture, on Thursday 20 November, will be given by Msgr. Michael Nazir-Ali, who will be speaking on ‘Mission Seeking Understanding: The Work of W.H.T. Gairdner and Constance Padwick on Islam, Muslim Devotion and Mysticism’.
4. Al-Mahdi Institute invites paper submissions for its upcoming international conference, “Ways of Knowing in Sufism: Epistemology, Authority, and Contemporary Implications” (1–2 June 2026). This conference seeks to explore the epistemological dimensions of Sufism and how knowledge is understood, experienced, and validated through unveiling (kashf), inspiration (ilhām), tasting (dhawq), and dreams. Scholars are invited to examine how these experiential forms of knowing have shaped theology, law, and mysticism in Islam, as well as their modern implications for religious authority, psychology, gender, and reform. Selected papers will be published in an edited volume with Brill. Abstracts (max. 400 words) are due by 6th February 2026.
Full details: https://almahdi.edu/ims-cfp/
5. SOAS Events:
Ancientness, Myth, and Sonic Imagination: Making Persian Music Legible in Israel
5.30pm, Tuesday 25 November 2025
Speaker: Edoardo Marcarini (SOAS)
Research Seminar in Islamic Art (ReSIA)
The Subversive Feminine: Contemporary Iranian Women Artists Challenging Gender Paradigms
6.00pm, Thursday 04 December 2025
Speaker: Katayoun Shahandeh (SOAS)
6. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Announces 2025 Awards and Prizes
The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) will present its annual award for Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, along with ten book prizes, a graduate student essay prize, an article prize, and an award for distinguished service in library and information resources on Saturday, November 22, 2025, during its 57th Annual Convention at the Washington Hilton, Washington, DC.
Established in 1948, ASEEES is the leading international scholarly society dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.
The Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Award honors eminent scholars who have made major contributions to the field through scholarship, service, and mentoring. The 2025 award will be presented to Dr. Edith W. Clowes, Brown-Forman Chair Emerita in the Humanities in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (University of Virginia) A complete citation is available here.
The following scholars will also be recognized for their contributions to the field:
The Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize for the most important contribution to Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies will be presented to two Winners: Benjamin Nathans (University of Pennsylvania) To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement (Princeton University Press) - read the citation here; and Masha Salazkina (Concordia University) Romancing Yesenia: How a Mexican Melodrama Shaped Global Popular Culture (University of California Press) – read the citation here.
An honorable mention will be given to Agnieszka Pasieka (University of Montreal)
Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe (Princeton University Press)
Read the citation here.
The USC Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies for outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe, or Eurasia in the fields of literary and cultural studies will be awarded to Samuel Hodgkin (Yale University) Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism (Cambridge University Press) Read the citation here.
Honorable mention will also be awarded to: Xiaolu Ma (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia via Japan (1880–1930) (Harvard University Asia Center) - read the citations here.
The Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History will be awarded to two winners: Winner: Simon Morrison (Princeton University) Tchaikovsky’s Empire: A New Life of Russia’s Greatest Composer (Yale University Press) - read the citation here; and Benjamin Nathans (University of Pennsylvania) To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement (Princeton University Press) - read the citation here.
An honorable mention will be awarded to Jeffrey S. Hardy (Brigham Young University)
Finding God in the Gulag: A History of Christianity in the Soviet Penal System (Oxford University Press) - read the citations here.
The Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies is awarded annually for an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography in the previous calendar year. This year’s prize will be awarded to Henry Thomson (Arizona State University) Watching the Watchers: Communist Elites, the Secret Police and Social Order in Cold War Europe (Cambridge University Press). Read the citation here.
An honorable mention will also be awarded: Michele Rivkin-Fish (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Unmaking Russia’s Abortion Culture: Family Planning and the Struggle for a Liberal Biopolitics (Vanderbilt University Press) Read the citations here.
The Marshall Shulman Book Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding monograph dealing with the international relations, foreign policy, or foreign-policy decision-making of any of the states of the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe. This year’s prize will go to: Samuel J. Hirst (Bilkent University) Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939 (Oxford University Press) - read the citation here.
Two honorable mentions will also be awarded to: Maria Cristina Galmarini (College of William & Mary) Ambassadors of Social Progress: A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War (Northern Illinois University Press); and Radoslav Yordanov (Harvard University) Our Comrades in Havana: Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, 1959–1991 (Stanford University Press). Read the citations here.
The Ed A Hewett Book Prize is awarded for an outstanding monograph on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia and/or Eastern Europe. This year’s winner is Anne O’Donnell (New York University) Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution (Princeton University Press). Read the citation here.
An honorable mention will also be awarded to Nataliya Kibita (University of Oxford)
The Institutional Foundations of Ukrainian Democracy: Power Sharing, Regionalism, and Authoritarianism (Oxford University Press). Read the citation here.
The Barbara Jelavich Book Prize for a distinguished monograph published on any aspect of Southeast European or Habsburg studies since 1600, or 19th- and 20th-century Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history will be awarded to two winners: Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (University of California, Santa Barbara) Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press); and Katya Motyl (Temple University) Embodied Histories: New Womanhood in Vienna, 1894-1934 (University of Chicago Press). Read the citations here.
The Kulczycki Book Prize for Polish Studies will be awarded to Karen Underhill (University of Illinois Chicago) Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity (Indiana University Press). Read the citation here.
An honorable mention is being awarded to Agnieszka Pasieka (University of Montreal)
Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe (Princeton University Press). Read the citation here.
The W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize, which is awarded for an author’s first published monograph or scholarly synthesis that is of exceptional merit and lasting significance for the understanding of Russia’s past, will be awarded to two winners: Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (University of California, Santa Barbara) Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press); and Polly Zavadivker (University of Delaware) A Nation of Refugees: Russia’s Jews in World War I (Oxford University Press). Read the citations here.
The honorable mention goes to: Masha Kirasirova (New York University Abu Dhabi)
The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union’s Anticolonial Empire (Oxford University Press). Read the citations here.
The Omeljan Pritsak Book Prize in Ukrainian Studies will be awarded to Waitman Wade Beorn (Northumbria University) Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv (University of Nebraska Press). Read the citation here.
An honorable mention will be awarded to Eugene Finkel (Johns Hopkins University)
Intent to Destroy: Russia’s Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine (Basic Books).
Read the citation here.
The Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Article Prize, established in 2024, is awarded annually for an outstanding research article in the social sciences by a junior scholar published in a peer-reviewed journal. The winner is Jessie Barton Hronešová (University College London), “The uses of victimhood as a hegemonic meta-narrative in eastern Europe,” Journal of Contemporary European Studies 32,2 (2024): 442-458.
Read the citation here.
An honorable mention will also be awarded to Monika Rice (Lafayette College), “Dr. Arnold Mostowicz: ‘Not alone in space.’ Moral Injury and the Quest for extraterrestrial Redemption,” Jewish Culture and History 25,4 (2024): 601-631. Read the citations here.
The Beth Holmgren Graduate Student Essay Prize will be awarded to Emma Larson (Princeton University), “Day of Abolition of Kalym in the Kazakh ASSR, 1924-1932″ Read the citations here.
The CLIR Distinguished Service Award honors ASEEES member librarians, archivists, or curators whose contributions to the field of Slavic, East European and Eurasian studies librarianship have been especially noteworthy or influential. The 2025 award goes to Robert H. Davis (Columbia University/Cornell University). Read the full citation here.
For additional information about ASEEES, the awards presentation, full text of the citations for the awards, or contact information for prize winners or publishers, please contact: Margaret Manges, Convention Manager, email: aseees-prizes@pitt.edu or visit: https://aseees.org/aseees-prizes/
7. CfP: The Ottoman Balkans as a Space for Multilingualism: Actors, Practices, and Sites of Translation
Bosnia & Herzegovina
From 4-6 June 2026, the international workshop “The Ottoman Balkans as a Space for Multilingualism: Actors, Practices, and Sites of Translation” will take place at the Gazi Husrev-beg Library in Sarajevo. Organised jointly by the University of Münster (Philip Bockholt, TRANSLAPT) and the University of Sarajevo (Munir Drkić), the event aims to address the Ottoman Balkans as a dynamic space for translation and cross-linguistic exchange between Arabic, Persian, (Ottoman) Turkish, and other regional languages between the 15th and 19th centuries. Please note that the event will be conducted solely in English. The deadline for the call for papers is 10 December 2025.
Contact Information
Prof. Dr. Philip Bockholt (University of Münster)
Prof. Dr. Munir Drkić (University of Sarajevo)
Contact Email
URL
https://www.uni-muenster.de/ArabistikIslam/translapt/events/ottomanbalkans.html
8. Entangled Histories: Borders and Cultural Encounters from the Medieval to the Contemporary Era Seminar Series
A Captivating Seminar Series Exploring the Many Faces of Borders and the Power of Cultural Exchange
We are thrilled to invite you to the launch of Entangled Histories, a dynamic interdisciplinary seminar series that delves deep into the rich and complex intersections of borders, mobility, and cultural encounters across history — from the medieval period right up to our contemporary world.
When: Starting Wednesday, November 26, 2025, and continuing every Wednesday at 5 PM (CET)
Where: Online via Zoom — Join us live or access anytime by scanning the QR code on the poster!
Zoom Link: https://tinyurl.com/aumv88jz
(The poster attached includes a convenient QR code for quick access)
Organized by Dr. Ester Cristaldi (Üsküdar University) and Dr. Elisa Ramazzina (University of Insubria), this series gathers scholars, students, and curious minds from diverse fields to explore how histories, peoples, and ideas have continuously intertwined — crossing and reshaping boundaries in surprising ways.
What You’ll Discover:
- Physical and Geographical Borders: Natural and artificial boundaries such as rivers, seas, mountains, and man-made frontiers shaping human experience.
- Political and Administrative Borders: Historical, geopolitical, administrative, and cadastral lines that define states, regions, and governance.
- Cultural, Social, and Symbolic Borders: Ethnic, religious, social, and spiritual boundaries that influence identity and community.
- Temporal and Epistemological Borders: Linguistic, scientific, textual, and knowledge-based divides that evolve over time.
- Structural and Functional Characteristics: Porous, permeable, impermeable, fluid, mutable, real, imaginary, symbolic, commercial, and economic borders that affect movement and interaction.
Under the patronage of Üsküdar University and the Master’s Program in Media and Cultural Studies, this seminar series aims to spark meaningful dialogue about shared pasts, global connections, and the transformative power of cultural encounters.
Provisional Programme — First Part of the Series
Join leading scholars as they present cutting-edge research and fresh perspectives on borders and cultural encounters:
26th November – Marjan Shokouhi Tajadini Sarvestani (University of Granada): Bordered Voices: Kavanagh, MacNeice, and the Poetics of Belonging in Ireland
3rd December – Ester Cristaldi (Üsküdar University): Perceiving the Divine from the Margins: Sensory Experience, Linguistic and Theological Boundaries in Byzantine and Islamic Medieval Riddles
10th December – Angela Puca (Leeds Trinity University): Borders of Healing: Transmission, Secrecy, and Syncretism in Italian Shamanism
17th December – Andrii Kepsha (University of Hradec Kralové): Nature and Boundaries: Water, Space, and the Sensory Experience of the Rus’-Steppe Frontier (1050s–1100s)
Christmas/New Year Break
14th January – Rafael Pascual (University of Granada): Crossing Epistemological Borders: New Ways of Studying Alliteration in Old English Verse
21st January – Sophie Wei Ling-chu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong): Title to be announced
28th January – Jasmine Bria (University of Bari Aldo Moro): Borderlands and Cultural Identities in Arthurian Narratives
4th February – Naoko Kato (Independent Scholar): Languages in Exile: The Lost Japanese Archives of War and Return
11th February – Dario Capelli (University of Urbino Carlo Bo): Echoes of the Struggles against the Beguines in a Poem by Thomas Hoccleve
Date TBC – Elisa Ramazzina (University of Insubria): Negotiating Borders through Margins, Maps, and Mythical Creatures in the “Wonders of the East”
This is only the first part of the series — stay tuned for more inspiring talks by distinguished scholars in the upcoming sessions!
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to embark on a fascinating journey through the entangled histories that continue to shape our world today. Whether you are a scholar, student, or passionate learner, your presence and participation will enrich the conversation.
Mark your calendar, spread the word, and join us every Wednesday at 5 PM CET!
For questions or more information, please contact Dr. Ester Cristaldi or Dr. Elisa Ramazzina.
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9. Foroutan, Yaghoob, (2025), ‘Social Demography of Contemporary Iran’, 1st Edition, Babolsar, Iran: University of Mazandaran Press (in English Language).
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
FOREWORD
Chapter 1: Demographic Swings in 65 Years from Social Approach
Chapter 2: Population Dynamics and Cultural Changes
Chapter 3: Gender Socialization and Educational Institution: Demographic Emphasis
Chapter 4: Gender Identity and Language Diversity: Socio-Demographic Perspectives
Chapter 5: Religious Socialization: Demographic Emphasis
Chapter 6: Religious Authorities and Representation of Dress Codes
Chapter 7: Social Attitudes towards Dress Codes: Demographic Determinants
REFERENCES
More information will be available soon on its link (in Persian/Farsi Language): https://press.umz.ac.ir/
10. HYBRIDE Colloque international : “Patrimoine matériel (archéologique et manuscrit) et immatériel en Libye et dans les pays voisins : situations contemporaines et perspectives”, IRMC, Tunis, 17-19 novembre 2025
Information et programme : https://tinyurl.com/24mzc6af
11. HYBRIDE Table-ronde sur la publication “La croisade. Une histoire partagée” avec le autour Abbès Zouache (IFAO), IISMM, Paris, 18 novembre 2025, 11:00 – 12:30 CET
Information et inscription: https://iismm.ehess.fr/evenement/table-ronde-avec-abbes-zouache
12. ONLINE Webinar of Empowering Muslim Women in Scientific Research: “Islamic Feminism: Hermeneutics and Activism” by Dr Mulki al-Sharmani (University of Helsinki), University of Manchester & University of Sharjah, 26 November 2025, 14:00 – 15:30 CET
Dr Mulki Al-Sharmani will explore what Islamic feminism contributes both as an academic field within Islamic studies and as a form of knowledge-based gender activism. She will also discuss the key critiques of Islamic feminism and what they can teach us about the Movement’s potential and limitations.
Information and registration: https://tinyurl.com/dakukj6a
13. Assistant Professor in Political Science with Emphasis on the Middle East, American University in Cairo
We are inviting applications from individuals who demonstrate excellence in teaching and have an active research agenda. Candidates with experience in and familiarity with the North American higher educational system are preferred.
Deadline for applications: 20 November 2025. Information: https://tinyurl.com/y9hxuerb
14. Lecturer (Tenure-track) in Jewish History of Islamic Lands, Ariel University
Applicants should have a Ph.D. degree and international post-doctoral training. Mastery of the theory and metho-dology of current historical research and languages relevant to the fields is required, including proficiency in Arabic and/or Turkish and competence in European languages.
Deadline for applications: 10 December 2025. Information: https://tinyurl.com/wp8e6v9
15. Lecturer in Arabic Language and Literature, University of Cape Town
This is a permanent position after probation. Requisites include a Ph.D. in Arabic language and literature or a related field; strong command of Modern Standard Arabic; experience in teaching MSA; and evidence of active research.
Deadline for applications: 1 December 2025.
Information: https://jobs.uct.ac.za/job/Cape-Town-Lecturer/1266091101/
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