📢The deadline for applications to join us as the next Editor of the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (BJMES) has been extended!

🗓️New deadline: 17:00 on 15 April 2026

More info: bit.ly/bjmes

#AcademicPublishing #Editor #Journal #MiddleEastStudies

The image shows a poster which includes details of the call for papers for the DAVO Congress 2026. Full details of the call can be found on the DAVO website: https://davo1.de/en/en-call-for-papers-davo-congress-2026-10-12-september-2026-lmu-munich/

The #CallforPapers for the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO) Congress 2026 is open!
Highlights include a conference keynote by Prof Abdel Razzaq Takriti and a featured panel on #AcademicFreedom and #MiddleEastStudies.
🗓️22 March 2026
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𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 as we host 𝐎𝐦𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐤𝐡𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬 for an engaging and timely lecture:

“𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐊𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬: 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲, 𝐒𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐭𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐎𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫”

📅 March 11
⏰ 12 PM CST / 1 PM EST

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#ZahraInstitute #KurdishPolitics #MiddleEastStudies

#BRISMES2026 | We are deeply grateful to Gaza-based artist Osama Hussein for the official illustration of this year’s conference, "War, Empire and Sabotage in an Age of Genocide."

Check out Osama’s work here: instagram.com/os.hussen/

#AcademicConference #MiddleEastStudies #GazaArtists

"Making Down Syndrome: Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan" by Christine Sargent

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#DownSyndrome #Jordan #DisabilityStudies #MiddleEastStudies

Wine Culture in Iran and Beyond edited by Bert G. Fragner, Ralph Kauz and Florian Schwarz Wine Culture in Iran and Beyond edited by Bert G. Fragner, Ralph Kauz and Florian Schwarz at isdistribution.com Starting from important new archaeological findings and insights that have led to a reth...

📘 20% off with code 2991-26
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#IranianStudies #MiddleEastStudies #CulturalHistory

The image shows an orange poster with the BRISMES logo and a summary of the call for nominations. More information is available on the BRISMES website: www.brismes.ac.uk/news/president

📢BRISMES is seeking nominations for a new President who will provide academic and strategic leadership to the Society, ensuring that it continues to thrive as a sustainable, inclusive and forward-looking community for #MiddleEastStudies in the UK and beyond.

👉www.brismes.ac.uk/news/president

Tribes in Modern Yemen edited by Marieke Brandt Tribes in Modern Yemen edited by Marieke Brandt at isdistribution.com In Yemen, "tribe" is a historically rooted, emic concept of social representation. Rooted in remotest antiquity, over the last cen...

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#MiddleEastStudies #Yemen #Anthropology #PoliticalSociology

The image shows a poster advertising the 2026 BRISMES Early Career Development Scholarship. The deadline for submissions is 20 March 2026. For more information please visit the BRISMES website: www.brismes.ac.uk/awards/ecds

📢We are pleased to announce that submissions are open for the 2026 BRISMES #EarlyCareer Development Scholarship! Two awards of £3,000 each are available.
🗓Deadline: 20 March 2026
🔗www.brismes.ac.uk/awards/ecds

#EarlyCareerResearchers #ECR #awards #funding #MiddleEastStudies #postdoc

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Seminar - Thurs 22 Jan, 4pm: Muhammad ‘Abduh’s Science and Civilization between Islam and Christianity. Dr Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour (CMCS). Response: Fitzroy Morrissey (Pembroke) Click to join online. forms.office.com/e/Y72qDJjK3b
#InterfaithDialogue #MiddleEastStudies #IslamAndScience

📢 Submissions are still open for #BRISMES2026 and the deadline is approaching!

"#War, Empire and Sabotage in an Age of #Genocide"

📅 23–25 June 2026 @soasuni.bsky.social

👉 #CallForPapers: bit.ly/BRISMES2026

Submit by next Sunday 18 Jan!

#MiddleEastStudies #AcademicConference

📢 #CallForApplications | The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (BJMES) is seeking applications for a new Editor. The successful candidate will lead the journal’s next phase and oversee its editorial direction.

Apply by 30 Mar 2026

#EditorRole #MiddleEastStudies

📘 My monograph, Ashura as Submission and Rebellion (Brill), is now out!!!🥳
📚 Libraries and individuals interested in Iran, Islam, and ritual studies may wish to consider acquiring a copy.

#MiddleEastStudies #ShiaIslam #Ethnography
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#AcademicSky #MiddleEastStudies #MenaSky #skystorians

"Embodying the Revolution: The Hebrew Experience and the Globalization of Modern Sports in Interwar Palestine" by Ofer Idels

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#JewishStudies #MiddleEastStudies #GenderStudies #Religion #MilitaryHistory #GenderStudies #Palestine

Join IHS this Monday for Benjamin Claude Brower’s “The Colonization of Names,” exploring symbolic violence and France’s occupation of Algeria.

Mon. Oct. 13 | Noon–1:30pm | GAR 4.100
Info/RSVP: bit.ly/BrowerIHS

#UTexas #IHS #ColonialHistory #MiddleEastStudies #BookTalk #Algeria #ReadUP

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In this off the page episode, Columbia History PHD student Nancy Ko and author M’hamed Oualdi talk about A SLAVE BETWEEN EMPIRES. buff.ly/K40lFWO #MiddleEastStudies #History @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

Five forthcoming books to start your week with @stanfordpress.bsky.social A thousand congratulations to Hannah Scott Deuchar, Randa Tawil, Alex Boodrookas, Orçun Can Okan, and Ziad Abu-Rish! #MiddleEastStudies

Exiles or Intermediaries? East Turkistani Muslims in the Interwar Middle East <p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d3588293e98">Recent political repression in Xinjiang (commonly referred to in sources cited here as Ea...

🆕📑 'Exiles or Intermediaries? East Turkistani Muslims in the Interwar Middle East' - an article in @reorient.bsky.social on #ScienceOpen:

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Educated at St Antony's College, Khalidi's insights into the Middle East are informed by a rich academic background. #MiddleEastStudies #Education

#ChrisHedges #slander #AcademicFreedom #MauraFinkelstein #FreePalestine #Genocide #FirstAmendement #MiddleEastStudies
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Now Available: CONTEMPORARY ARAB THOUGHT: CULTURAL CRITIQUE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, by ELIZABETH SUZANNE KASSAB. Includes the book's cover and a blurb by ZEINA G. HALABI. Save 20% with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.

Now available! This landmark work continues to offer indispensable insight into the richness of contemporary Arab thought. buff.ly/ITgRUlB #ArabThought #MiddleEastStudies #WorldLiterature #ReadUP

An Intellectual Sufi between Empires: Muhammad Tawfīq al-Bakrī (1870–1932) Public performance of the dawsa, a traditional Sufi ritual, was an inseparable part of the traditional mawlid festival1 held every year in Cairo. Mainly affiliated with and performed by the Saʿdiyya Sufi order, the ritual had several phases. The most striking part of the ritual was when the Shaykh of the Saʿdiyya Sufi order rode … Continue reading An Intellectual Sufi between Empires: Muhammad Tawfīq al-Bakrī (1870–1932)

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#IslamicHistory #Sufi #sufism #OttomanHistory #ColonialHistory #IntellectualHistory #middleeaststudies

📷 Ottoman Egyptian author and poet Muhammad Tawfiq al-Bakri. Public Domain.
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Cover of On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo by Julia Elyachar. The cover features a dark, geometric background pattern from a brass decoration on an ancient door in Cairo. The title is displayed in elegant serif fonts, with "On the Semicivilized" in gold and the subtitle in white and italicized text. The author's name appears in pink in the bottom right corner.

Save 30% on #NewBook "On the Semicivilized" by @jeelyachar.bsky.social, a sweeping analysis of the coloniality that shaped—and blocked—sovereign futures for those dubbed barbarian and semicivilized in the former Ottoman Empire. #Anthropology #MiddleEastStudies
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#BookSky #MiddleEastStudies #menasky #HistoriansofIslam

Cover of On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo by Julia Elyachar. The cover features a dark, geometric background pattern from a brass decoration on an ancient door in Cairo. The title is displayed in elegant serif fonts, with "On the Semicivilized" in gold and the subtitle in white and italicized text. The author's name appears in pink in the bottom right corner.

Among our exciting new titles out this May is "On the Semicivilized" by Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social . #MiddleEastStudies #Anthropology
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Yesterday, Professor Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi (University of Oslo) visited CMES for a research seminar on "Iran's Mothers of "Martyrs": Public Dissent in Times of Sorrow": www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes...
#cmes #lund #lunduniversity #lundsuniversitet #middleeast #middleeaststudies #iran

White House may seek legally binding control over Columbia through consent decree – report Possible escalation comes after university already accepted changes as pre-condition for restoring $400m in grants

First the #trumpregime took over #middleeaststudies and #africanstudies at #columbiauniversity, now they're coming for the whole university (and the endowment funds?)

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Editors Katelyn Chin and Torsten Wollina are at the AOS conference in Boston. Come by to say hi!
#ANE #MiddleEastStudies