Shii News – Academic Items

1.Anthology of Arabic Discourse on Translation

Edited By

Tarek Shamma

Myriam Salama-Carr

Routledge, 2022

 

 

 

2. The Achaemenid Persian World Empire

A series of four lectures by

Robert Rollinger

Professor of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies

University of Innsbruck

April 11–20, 2022 | 314 Royce Hall

Lectures Begin at 4:00 pm PST

For more information about each of the four lectures, and to register to attend in person, or join via Zoom, see:

https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/events/

and the links accessible via the four individual lectures at that website.

 

 

 

3. The MLA Global Arab and Arab American Forum invites proposals for the following panels at the MLA Convention in San Francisco (5-8 January 2023):

 

Writing and Cultural Production as Oppositional Work

Oppositional work of writing and cultural production in the Arab region and global Arab diaspora, including protest and dissident literature/art/activism that resists surveillance and discursive/cultural practices of domestication and containment. 250-word abstract & bio by March 15, 2022 to rc49@soas.ac.uk (Rasha Chatta, Freie Universität)

 Migrants as Working Subjects

Literary and artistic representations of migrant labor in the Arab region and global Arab diaspora, as inflected by class, race, ethnicity, language, nomenclature, and sociocultural/economic practices including sponsorship. 250-word abstract & bio by March 15, 2022 to azstanton@psu.edu (Anna Ziajka Stanton, The Pennsylvania State University)

Decolonizing Global Arab/South Labor Epistemologies

Critique of global Arab/South working conditions in literary and cultural production, including theorizing labor in neocolonial spaces, construction of and resistance to subalternity, and the representation of exploitation and its legacies. 250-word abstract and bio by March 20, 2022 to ctolliver@uh.edu and aidrissi@purdue.edu

 

 

 

4. Open Access Books

Al-Markaz: Majallat al-Dirāsāt al-ʿArabiyya = المركز: مجلة الدراسات العربية

Online ISSN: 2772-8250
Print :ISSN: 2772-8242
Publisher: Brill, 2022-

“Al-Markaz: Majallat al-Dirāsāt al-ʿArabiyya [ The Centre: Journal of Arabic Studies] focuses on Arabic language, literature and culture studies, encompassing a range of historical and analytical trends. It covers a chronological period that extends from before Islam to contemporary times. The journal offers a forum for matters of formal language and spoken dialects, written and oral heritage, in poetry and prose, and welcomes submissions with an interdisciplinary and comparative approach.”

 

The presence of the Prophet in early modern and contemporary Islam
Author: David Jordan; Rachida Chih; Stefan Reichmuth

Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2022.
Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, 159/2

ISBN : 9789004466753 

 

Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements

Afzal Upal, Muhammad.

Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements

Published: Brill, 2021.

ISBN: 9789004425255

 

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