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Call for Submissions | Middle East Critique Special Issue: Rethinking STATE and REGIME in the Middle East and North Africa
This special issue addresses the persistent conceptual confusion around ‘state’ and ‘regime’ in academic literature on the modern Middle East and North Africa (MENA). We invite scholars from the humanities and social sciences to grapple with the distinction, or lack thereof, between state and regime in the MENA, exploring its origins and impacts in academia and beyond. The call is open to scholars in and across the fields of History, Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, International Relations, and Cultural Studies.
Call for Book Proposals | The IHF Modern Iran Series
The IHF Modern Iran Series publishes innovative Open Access books with a broad thematic focus on modern and contemporary Iran. The chronological scope of the series covers the late nineteenth century to the present day with thematic areas ranging from cultural and social to political and economic issues. Single and co-authored volumes as well as edited volumes will be eligible for consideration.
Call for Applications | Department Of Turkish Language and Culture
The Department of Turkish Language and Culture at National Chengchi University in Taiwan invites applications for a full-time, open-rank faculty member. The start date of the position is August 1st, 2025.
Required Qualifications
Native or near-native proficiency in English and Turkish. Earned PhD degree in Turkish, Turkology teaching, or related fields. Applicants should be able to offer Turkish, English, and Chinese taught courses.
Call for Submissions | Special Issue of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication
Scandals, Scandalization and Society in the Arab Region.
Guest editors: Abderrahim Chalfaouat and Hendrik Michael
Focusing on the Arab region, this special issue aims to look at a) the discursive qualities of scandal; b) the assemblages of scandalisation, i.e. the institutions, figurations, practices, and technologies that make scandals; and c) a diverse array of scandals and scandalization experiences.
Send your abstracts (or questions) to the guest editors at a.chalfaouat@univh2c.ma and hendrik.michael@uni-bamberg.de.
Call for Proposals | Youssef Chahine
Proposals for chapters are invited for a new volume on the films of Youssef Chahine, ideally for EUP’s Refocus series.
We welcome proposals for chapters offering fresh perspectives on all aspects of Chahine’s work and its legacy. These could include analyses of specific films, thematic explorations across his oeuvre, or examinations of his influence on other filmmakers and cultural movements.
We particularly welcome authors from the MENA region. Contributors need not be Arab-language film specialists.
Please send chapter proposals of 250-400 words and a 100-word biography to the editors of the volume:
Dr. Gillian McIver (gmciver@workmail.com) and Dr. Samar Abdel-Rahman (samar.abdelrahman@liverpool.ac.uk) by 1st March 2025.
The final chapters should be 5,000- 6,000 written in English.
Book Proposals | Disruptions
The Middle East is experiencing major political transformations, some of which continue from the Arab uprisings of 2011, which invite historical and comparative examinations. The first of its kind, Disruptions publishes studies on the origins, nature, and impact of the ideas, events (uprisings, revolutions, protests), and actors (ordinary people, activists, intellectuals, or leaders) that are now disrupting the social orders in the region.
We welcome monographs and, in exceptional cases, edited volumes that offer novel theoretical and conceptual frameworks and/or empirical material generated from the region. Disruptions fosters the principle of pluralism in knowledge generation in the Social Sciences, and will be open to various theoretical and methodological approaches in Political Science, History, Sociology, Social Psychology and Middle Eastern Studies.
Book Proposals | New Book Series: Peace Politics in the Middle East
Peace Politics in the Middle East aims to present reflective and cutting edge research that provide a forum for critical debate between scholars and politicians from across the Middle East and beyond. The focus is on presenting solutions to seemingly intractable problems and situations, and to explain the ramifications of their potential implementation.
Peace Politics in the Middle East delivers texts which predominantly deal with the prevention, causes and resolution of wars, terrorism, genocide, and gross violations of human rights. The series will aim to provide in-depth understanding that can assist academics and practitioners to work towards building a just and peaceful system. It delves into substantial analyses of constructive relationships across ethnic, religious, class and gender that can contribute to peacebuilding and mutual coexistence.
Book Proposals | Global Ethics
Under the direction of the new series editors, the Global Ethics book series seeks to advance research and conversation around a broad array of ethical issues in international and global matters. The editors are interested in publishing both monographs and edited collections from scholars, practitioners, and those engaged in civil society. These may include topics such as global governance, global health disparities, international intellectual property, climate change, economic sanctions, food security, civil and transnational conflict, and migration. Our particular interest is to provide a platform for scholars and practitioners from the Global South, and to host a dialogue involving diverse perspectives on issues of concern to the Global South.
The editors would welcome submissions of books, book proposals and inquiries about possible projects.
Book Proposals | Critiquing Gender & Islam: Transnational, Intersectional and Queer Perspectives
This series approaches gender as a category of analysis, a platform of mobilisation and activism, an essential aspect of governance and a signifier of power relations that intersect with other inequalities. Encouraging interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies, Critiquing Gender & Islam mainly features empirically grounded work, including ethnographic, visual and discursive material. Sexuality and queer politics are important aspects of the series’ understanding of the politics of gender.
Book Proposals | Contemporary Turkey Book Series
I.B.Tauris and the British Institute at Ankara are seeking book proposals for the Contemporary Turkey academic book series. The Contemporary Turkey monograph series is a joint initiative by the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA), internationally renowned for its support of independent academic research, and leading publisher of Middle East and Turkish Studies I.B. Tauris, an imprint of Bloomsbury Academic.
The series publishes cutting-edge research monographs and edited collections from a new generation of scholars working on modern Turkey across the social sciences and humanities. In bringing to light new data and insights directly from the field, this series is distinguished by its emphasis on innovative approaches that challenge established ways of examining Turkey.
New MA Islamic Humanities (SOAS)
This new programme covers the social, cultural and intellectual history, religion, philosophy, literature and arts of the Islamic world, past and present. Students deploy inter-disciplinary humanities approaches to the study of Islam and the Islamic world and engage seriously with its production in the humanities not as an afterthought to the traditional humanities but as a source of critical insights for a global humanities. Challenging essentialist narratives, the programme fosters an appreciation of diversity – regional, cultural and religio-intellectual – within the Islamic world.
The programme is suitable for students of a diverse range of academic backgrounds and does not require prior knowledge of Islam or the Islamic world, nor proficiency in a language other than English.
The programme is also available with a language pathway. The MA Islamic Humanities and Intensive Language enables students to study one of a number of languages, including Arabic (beginners, intermediate or advanced), Persian, Turkish, Chinese, Indonesian and Swahili.
Call for Applications | The RSAA Travel Award
The Royal Society for Asian Affairs Travel Awards support practical projects and research that have the potential to contribute to advances in scholarly or other public knowledge including, but not limited to, post-graduate degrees, journalism and travel writing.
The awards are open to applications from students, young researchers and early career academics and are aimed at funding the travel element of practical projects and research which have the potential to contribute to advances in scholarly or other public knowledge.
Individual’s have the opportunity to receive a grant of up to £2,000 and applications can be related to any aspect of the study of Asia (including the Middle East and Turkiye).
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