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Easy access to archives and their contents represents a major challenge for researchers in the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula studies. Generally speaking, the history of this region is not largely a written one; it mainly depends on oral history, particularly in relation to the sheikhdoms ..

In 2022/23 the seminar series, Researching Palestine ran for eight weeks at Dar Jacir (Bethlehem) with talks from early career researchers covering topics such as mental health in the West Bank and the Bethlehem psychiatric hospital, alternative histories of the Palestinian photographer..

[This article is part of a special dossier on fandom and politics in the Southwest Asian/ North African (S.W.A.N.A.) region. Read all of the pieces, as well as the introduction, here.]

I encountered the field ..

The Post-Conflict Cities Lab at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation is hosting a two-day graduate student conference titled “Middle East Urbanism Beyond Conflict: Current Research, Ongoing Debates, and Next Directions,” to be held on February 16-17, ..

Every city comes with spaces that we tend to describe with the same series of adjectives—“criminal,” “dangerous,” or “disorder.” To seem neutral, we might call these spaces and its people “informal” (for example, the informal economy or informal housing), but it does not take the negative associ..

Middle East Urbanism Beyond Conflict: Current Research, Ongoing Debates, and Next Directions

Graduate Student Conference, Columbia University

The Post-Conflic..

The Middle East is characterized in media and, to a lesser extent, academia as almost unknowably complex, as though the particularities of the region lend to it an air of tangled mystery. This is not innate but is produced and reproduced by simplifying narratives put forth by media agencies and ..

We write to you on behalf of the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) to express, in the strongest terms possible, our outrage regarding the death of Ayman Hadhoud, an economic researcher, who died in the custody of Egyptian authorities after his forced dis..

MAS is seeking to employ a Senior Economist to supervise, as well as to undertake, policy-oriented research on the Palestinian economy, as Director of Research.

The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) announces its annual fellowship and competitions for research in the humanities or research that embraces a humanistic approach and methods. Applicants must be scholars who have earned their PhD or completed their professional training. Applicants ..

We had a conversation with Khalid Suleiman—a journalist and researcher of environmental affairs—who recently published Guardians of the Water: Drought and Climate Change in Iraq with Al-Mada Press in Baghdad. This book is partic..

The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) announces its eigth National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions (FPIRI) competition for research in Palestine for scholars who have earned their PhD or completed their professional training.<..

The politics of knowledge production pervades research on Palestine and Palestinians. Over-research, under-research<..

My primary motivations for editing this book arose from the needs and struggles of students in my qualitative research methods graduate course. First of all, I wanted a way to address students’ questions and anxieties about conducting field research for the first tim..

We write on behalf of the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) to express our serious concerns regarding the 10 September 2018 announcement of a "research partnership" between the New York Times and George Washington University's Program on Extremi..

Muhammad Isa Waley discusses his experience working for over four decades with manuscripts from the Islamic world and provides a broad, rich overview of the study of Islamic manuscripts.

An interview moderated by Bassam Haddad for issue 4.1 of Status Audio Magazine with Rabie Nasr, co-founder of Syrian Center for Policy Research.

The Palestine Academy for Science and Technology (PALAST) and the Fonds de Recherche Du Quebec – Nature Et Technologies (FRQNT), Santé (FRQS), Société Et Culture (FRQSC) are pleased to announce the first call for the short-term research grant proposals in Quebec.

The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) announces its sixth National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions (FPIRI) competition for research in Palestine for scholars who have earned their PhD or completed their professional training.<..

Going to archives in Iran—the capital specifically—remains obscure to a great number of PhD students and researchers based outside of the country. Often, senior academics from whom students seek advice have not been to Iran’s archives for ..