Application and additional information: https://waheedsamyaward.org/guidelines/ Submission deadline is June 15, 2021. You will need to submit two writing samples, a letter of endorsement from an Arabic teacher familiar with your writing, and a completed application. …
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Elia Suleiman Retrospective
This month, ArteEast is pleased to celebrate and showcase the work of famed Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman as part of the Arab Film Series online, in partnership with the Arab American National Museum, Arab Film and …
Call for Nominations for the 2021 MES Student Paper Award, deadline 8/15/2021
The Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association requests submissions for our Student Paper Award. Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible. The winner will receive a prize of $500, plus a chance to summarize the award winning paper in AN (Anthropology News, a …
Paid Research Position with UW-Madison Professor
Seeking research assistants for a new project digitizing historic maps of interwar Egypt. Selected RAs will be responsible for using open-source spatial analysis software (QGIS) to catalogue features such as roads, houses of worship, and …
Free Screening of Arab-American High School Football Team Documentary
The Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival is showing Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football, an award winning documentary from 2011. The film follows a predominately Arab-American high school football team from a working-class Detroit suburb as they practice …
The Return of the Gaze: On Modern Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Melancholies of a Blessed View, with Prof. Avinoam Shalem, April 15, 2021
Please join the Medieval Studies Program on Thursday, April 15, 3pm, for their guest lecture with Professor Avinoam Shalem (colombia University). Click here to join on zoom. The lecture is part of the Borghesi-Mellon Interdisciplinary …
Watch two Iranian films at the Wisconsin Film Festival, May 13-20, 2021
The 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival, presented by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Communication Arts, will take place virtually from May 13, 2021 – May 20, 2021. The festival will present eight solid days of refreshing, …
Apply for the 2021 Jack Shaheen Scholarship! Due April 12, 2021
Apply for the Dr. Jack Shaheen Mass Communications Scholarship! The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is offering scholarships of $2,500 in honor of Dr. Jack G. Shaheen for Arab American students who excel in Media Studies. …
Saladin’s Jerusalem, with Professor Paul Cobb, April 8, 2021
The Medieval Studies Program at UW–Madison and the Borghesi-Mellon Workshop on Jerusalem invites you to attend the lecture, “Saladin’s Jerusalem,” by Professor Paul Cobb, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Near Eastern …
2021 Keyman Conference: Queer Conditions/Kuir Haller: Social and Political Change in an Age of Authoritarianism, June 2021
Friday June 4th, 9:30am-1:30pm Friday June 11th Friday June 18th Click here to register. This year’s annual Keyman Conference, Queer Conditions/Kuir Haller: Social and Political Change in an Age of Authoritarianism, will focus on Queer …