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1. Quand la scène s’empare du traumatisme : Métadiscours des artistes arabes contemporains / When the Stage Engages with Trauma: Metadiscourses of Contemporary Arab Artists (Nancy)

Université de Lorraine, Nancy, le vendredi 13 mars 2026

By focusing on the discourses produced by artists – creative correspondence, directors’ notes, interviews, program-matic texts, rehearsal journals, artistic manifestos, and other critical postures and positionings – this study day seeks to shed light on the processes through which scenic and performative practices transform traumatic experience into an aesthetic engine, a political stance, and a form of engagement with audiences and societies.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/bdhcry9u

2. Summer School: “Decompartmentalizing the Study of Religion: The Middle East and its Diasporas (Late 19th – 21st Centuries) – Lexis, Mapping and Staging”, Organized by ANR PredicMO, IREMAM, CNRS, AMU, IFAO, IFPO, EFR, NVIC and University of Groningen, Cairo, 10-17 October 2026

Dive into an innovative, cross-disciplinary exploration of religion in the Middle East and its diasporas (late 19th – 21st centuries). This summer school focuses on breaking down confessional and disciplinary silos through lexicons, media, and spatial dynamics, fostering a connected approach to religious phenomena.

Deadline for applications: 12 February 2026. Information: https://predicmo.hypotheses.org/category/ecole-dete

3. Seeking North African and Arabic Scholars to Write and Edit Bloomsbury’s “Trans Studies” Book Series

High priorities for the series include books explore Arabic influences on transgender issues, as well as works that examine transgender and nonbinary topics with reference to specific North African linguistic, national, and regional groups. We encourage authors from around the world to contribute to the series, incorporating culture-specific insights as feasible. Books written from a postcolonial perspective are especially welcome.

Information: https://tinyurl.com/3sadpnym

4. Chapters for Sourcebook on “Moving Stories: Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East”

We seek to publish a Sourcebook that reflects the capacious range of sources that speak in the widest way to the interplay between processes of Ottoman mobility, migration, and identify formation in a period of Middle Eastern history spanning roughly from 1860 to 1930. We are especially interested in previously unpublished sources in languages as varied as Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Armenian, Greek, Syriac, Coptic, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English.

Information: https://tinyurl.com/3f7pvjbc

5. Call for Articles on “On Both Sides of the Border: Muslims in Garb al-Andalus and Portugal During the Middle Ages” for the Journal “Hamsa: Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies”

The aim of this monographic issue is to serve as a compilation and new impetus for this research into the Muslim presence in Portuguese lands, both under the sphere of Andalusian influence (Garb al-Andalus) and under Christian rule (Portugal).

Deadline for articles: 28 February 2026. Information: https://journals.openedition.org/hamsa/5249

6. The Transformation of Turkish Foreign Policy

Islamism and Nationalism

Hasan Kösebalaban

Information: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-transformation-of-turkish-foreign-policy.html

7. Parution : “Un printemps ottoman. La révolution jeune-turque de 1908” par François Georgeon, Les Belles Lettres, 16/01/2026, 306 pages

Information: https://www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/9782251458250/un-printemps-ottoman

8. “Defying the Violence: Lebanon’s Visual Arts in the 1980s” Edited by Nadia von Maltzahn, Orient-Institut Beirut, Manzir Journal 7, 17 December 2025, 264 pages

Information and complete text: https://bop.unibe.ch/manazir/issue/view/1535

9. University of Exeter:

Recordings of Monday Majlises

All of them, and those before, starting in 2022, can be accessed on this link:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-

6^th of October (Monday) 17:00-18:30 (UK time).

John Esposito, Among the Believers: A Journey in Islam, the Muslim World and Global Politics

Recording available at https://youtu.be/2TosfWwvbJg

13^th of October (Monday) 17:00-18:30 (UK time).

Said Reza Huseini, The Arab Conquests in Bactria: Local Politics and Arab Domination (651–750 CE)

Recording available at https://youtu.be/Aoxr-C_RSKs

27^th of October (Monday) 17:00-18:30 (UK time).

Badr Tachouche, The Chanting Faqihs: Retuning Islamic Discourse through Muwashshahs and Zajals

Recording available at https://youtu.be/r9UV0Xyd2f0

3^rd of November (Monday) 17:00-18:30 (UK time).

Michael Shenkar, Sogdian Civilisation and the Arab Conquest.

Recording available at https://youtu.be/dmtOwZXLqM8

10^th of November (Monday) 17:00-18:30 (UK time).

Godefroid de Callataÿ and Laura Tribuzio, A Ruby Which Is Not a Ruby: Symbol, Substance, and Political Imagination in Timurid and Mughal Thought.

Recording available at https://youtu.be/VD81qXyz_l4

17^th of November (Monday) 17:00-18:30 (UK time).

Edith Szanto, Mourning and Performing: Twelver Shi‘ism in Ba‘ath Syria

Recording available at https://youtu.be/akoNLAeKLpI

24^th of November (Monday) 17:00-18:30 (UK time).

Safa Mahmoudian, Palace Gardens in Lower Mesopotamia: 8th–11th Centuries

Recording available at https://youtu.be/7V98hHUe6tc

1^st of December (Monday) 17:00-18:30 (UK time).

Pranav Prakash, Unravelling a 17^th Century Persian Translation of Śiva Purāṇa

Recording available at https://youtu.be/q6IiXrvOD7M

8^th of December (Monday) 17:00-18:30 (UK time).

Alireza Doostdar, Facing Satan: The Iranian Revolution and Its Demons