The Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS) has announced its 2015 Graduate Paper Prize & PhD Dissertation Award winners. The PhD Dissertation Award went to ANDREA WRIGHT for her exceptional historical ethnography in Migratory Pipelines: Labor and Oil in …

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The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute of Qatar University is presently seeking to fill multiple Senior Policy Analyst and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow positions located in Doha, Qatar. Senior Policy Analysts will join a newly-formed Policy Unit, established to utilize new and existing …

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The University of Massachusetts Amherst has a new position in Middle Eastern Studies.  The academic discipline and field of expertise are open for this search.  Applicants should apply by the priority deadline of November 12, 2014, in order to ensure consideration. The Department …

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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 …

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The Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar announces a major research initiative on the topic of The Gulf Family. In the Gulf region (the GCC states, Yemen, Iraq, and …

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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 …

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