Questioning Social Inequality and Difference in the Arab Region The Arab Council for the Social Sciences, meeting to be held in Beirut, Lebanon March 13-15, 2015. Online application and registration forms will be available on the ACSS website.  Due August …

Questioning Social Inequality and Difference in the Arab Region: The Arab Council for the Social Sciences, meeting to be held in Beirut, Lebanon, 13-15 March 2015. Read more »

Architectures of Oil: Global Perspectives Reem Alissa (University of British Columbia) and Mona Damluji (Wheaton College) are organizing one or more sessions for the upcoming AAG conference in Chicago (April 2015). They welcome you to submit an abstract. Since its …

Architectures of Oil: Global Perspectives – call for abstracts for panel at AAG conference in Chicago, April 2015 Read more »

The Liberal Arts Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for its Third Annual Liberal Arts International Conference. This third annual conference will explore the impacts of globalization from a variety of …

Call for Proposals: Looking Forward, Looking Back: Transnational Perspectives on Globalization, 1-3 February 2015 at Texas A&M University at Qatar Read more »

The Center for Gulf Studies at the American University of Kuwait will hold its second Gulf Studies Symposium (GSS) on 13-15 March 2015. Arab Gulf states increasingly utilize the phrase “knowledge economy” in their development strategies. Policy reports and national …

Gulf Studies Symposium (GSS): Knowledge-Based Development in the Gulf, March 13-15, 2015 at the American University of Kuwait Read more »

Do  not miss the most important global event in Middle Eastern and North African Studies in 2014! Due to the requests of many colleagues who were late in the organization of their panels and other activities during  WOCMES-4 in Ankara, …

WOCMES: Extended Deadline for Call for Proposals until 15 February 2014 Read more »

Pascal Menoret NYU Abu Dhabi & Harvard Academy – Panel proposal for WOCMES 2014 Ankara, August 18-22 Generally described as urbanization, city growth in the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East looks often more like a process of suburbanization. Long …

CfP for WOCMES – Suburban Mobility in the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East Read more »