Opportunities

University College London

In this role, the appointee will be responsible for producing high-impact research that contributes to the broader historiographical and theoretical debates in Middle Eastern history. Teaching responsibilities will include designing and delivering undergraduate and postgraduate modules in Middle Eastern history, as well as contributing to broader survey courses in world history, historiography, and historical methodologies.

Amnesty International UK

Amnesty International UK is seeking to recruit a freelance consultant researcher to conduct at least 30 interviews with individuals and groups identified by Amnesty International, to document their cases, and compile these into a clear and accessible report with findings.

Conference | Cairo | 26-28 October 2025 

Bringing together practitioners and scholars working on entertainment, arts, literature and language from a range of disciplinary perspectives, this conference is devoted to the complex dialectical relationship between mainstream and margin in contemporary Egyptian culture. The languages of the conference are English and Arabic. The conference will take place at IFAO (Munira) and AUC (Tahrir).

Conference | IASH, University of Edinburgh (hybrid) | 19-20 June 2025 

As we move more definitively into what could be considered a post-postcolonial era, how are Maghrebi identities and futures being (re)conceptualised? The conference is open to studies of literature (Francophone or Arabophone), film, art, politics, history, and social movements. We welcome contributions for 20-minute papers – in French or English – on a range of topics.

University of Amsterdam

The Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a PhD position as part of the FGw Starting grant “Intercultural Contact and Identity Formation in Premodern Frontier Zones”, led by principal investigators Dr. J.M.C. van den Bent and Dr. L.F. Kattenberg.

The Nayef Al-Rodhan book prize is awarded to an author working in the arena of transdisciplinary philosophy. This £20,000 Prize annually rewards the most original philosophical research that transcends academic disciplines. For this year’s edition of the Prize, submissions are welcome from publishers anywhere in the world. The books must be available in English, and need to have been published no earlier than January 1st 2022.

APSA invites applications for the 2025 MENA Research Development Group (RDG), a full-day seminar held during the 121st APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, in Vancouver, BC, Canada, September 10–14, 2025.

The workshop brings together research exploring how states, states, private investors, and international institutions have transformed the MENA region into an archipelago of different zones; and how future visions of growth and development remain tied to the creation of new SEZs.

The CMA CGM Excellence fund is open to students from Lebanon. The fund covers a full tuition fee waiver and stipend of £20,000 for masters students in the 2025/26 academic year. Priority is given to students applying to the Faculty of Social Sciences & Public Policy, King's Business School, and Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences at King’s College London. 

The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies is looking for an Assistant Librarian with Arabic and a Special Collections Curator with Persian.

The American Political Science Association (APSA) is pleased to announce a Call for Applications from earlycareer scholars who would like to participate in a 4-day workshop addressing the issues of decolonization and extractivism in academic research on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The in-person workshop will be held August 16-20 in Amman, Jordan. Organizers will cover participation costs, including travel, lodging, and materials, for up to 20 qualified applicants.

Conference | University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki | 3-6 October 2025 

Scholars from all scientific fields are invited to assess the current continuities and discontinuities in the ideological, political, social, institutional, educational, cultural, epistemological and historiographical attitudes towards Israel and the Palestinians. Special interest is placed on works that will consider the effects of the deadly Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023 in Israel, and the subsequent disproportionate response with Israel’s devastating war on Gaza's population and infrastructures.

Workshop | SOAS, University of London |15-16 September 2025

This workshop aims to think through how we might maintain our commitment to impossible futures as we watch the world burn, and witness its most vulnerable communities killed in real time, their deaths live-streamed on social media, and their murder justified by an imperial world desperate to maintain its grip on what, it is often forgotten, is a global majority. What is the use of research, study, and knowledge production more generally in a conjuncture marked not only by death and destruction, but also by the intransigence of the powerful in the face of such monumental injustice?

Forum | Qatar | January 2026

The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Institute for Palestine Studies invite research proposals for the fourth Annual Palestine Forum. The Forum will be held in late January 2026 in Qatar (Exact dates to be confirmed). The fourth round seeks to create an interactive academic space for presenting new and innovative approaches and exchanging views and ideas related to the study of Palestine.

Ca' Foscari University of Venice

This PhD research will explore the development of classical Arabic linguistic and grammatical studies within the broader framework of Islamic disciplines. The successful candidate will contribute to the work package on external influences on the Arabic linguistic thinking, specifically exploring the interplay between Islamic scholarly traditions and classical Arabic language studies.

The Confluence Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, an international, peer-reviewed academic journal published by Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Morocco, is pleased to invite scholars, researchers, and academics to contribute research articles and book reviews for its inaugural issue, to be published in June 2025.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Symposium | Lancaster University (hybrid) | 12 June 2025

This symposium brings together researchers and relevant agencies engaged in work relating to care, trauma and emotions within teaching and support structures at universities in the context of the Israeli response to the Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023. The symposium develops out of initial findings from a pilot project, 'Speaking on Palestine,’ exploring Palestinian, Arab and/or Muslim students’ experiences of talking about Palestine in UK universities using narrative interviews. For more information, please contact: m.abbas7@lancaster.ac.uk or a.sirriyeh@lancaster.ac.uk

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.