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📢 Calls for the 2026 AGAPS awards are now open! Apply for the Gwenn Okruhlik Dissertation Award, Graduate Paper Prize, or Student Travel Award. Deadlines: July 15 (Dissertation & Paper) and Sept 1 (Travel). Details & applications: agaps.org/calls-for-2026-aga…
📢 CFP: "A Century of Pioneers: Re-Imagining Saudi Histories of Technology and Innovation." The conference is in October 2027 and is hosted by @kfcris and the Prince Mohammed Al Faisal Chair. Proposals are due November 1.
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CFP: NYU Abu Dhabi Graduate Student Research Workshop, "New Directions in the Study of the Arab World," April 5–7, 2027. For advanced PhD students in the writing stage. Travel, lodging & meals covered. Deadline Oct 15. Details: agaps.org/call-for-applicati…
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📢 Calls for the 2026 AGAPS awards are now open! Apply for the Gwenn Okruhlik Dissertation Award, Graduate Paper Prize, or Student Travel Award. Deadlines: July 15 (Dissertation & Paper) and Sept 1 (Travel). Details & applications: agaps.org/calls-for-2026-aga…
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Do you work on the Gulf & Arabian Peninsula, or know a graduate student who does? The @AgapsOrg 2026 awards calls are open!
Deadline for the Gwenn Okruhlik Dissertation Award & AGAPS Graduate Paper Prize is 15 July. agaps.org/calls-for-2026-aga…
📢 The @MESA_1966 Global Academy Fellowship is open for 2026–27! Displaced & career-disrupted MENA scholars are invited to apply for professional development, mentoring, speaking engagements and more. Deadline: April 16, 2026. Apply → mesaglobalacademy.org/grant-…
Empowering Muslim Women in Scientific Research Webinar Series: "Gender Attitudes and Trends over the Last Decade" with @AmaneyJamal. Wednesday, January 28, 2026 | 5:00 – 6:30 PM (UAE) | 1:00 – 2:30 PM (UK)
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The latest webinar from the series: "Empowering Muslim Women in Scientific Research." Organized by the Universities of Sharjah & Manchester.
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We're excited to announce that @Ahmed_Yaqoub is the winner of the 2025 AGAPS Gwenn Okruhlik Dissertation Award for "An Enchanted Sea." Honorable mention goes to Gabriel Young for "State, Land, and Labor in the Making of an Iraqi Periphery." Congratulations!
We're excited to announce that @Crystal_Ennis is the winner of the 2025 AGAPS Biennial Book Award for "Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies." Honorable mention goes to Arang Keshavarzian for "Making Space for the Gulf." Congratulations!
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I’m honored to be the first Emirati to win the Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies @AgapsOrg 2025 Gwenn Okruhlik Dissertation Award! Huge thanks to the committee, to friends and colleagues, and to everyone who powered “Enchanted Sea” into being!
ALT The Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS) 2025 Gwenn Okruhlik Dissertation Award
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Another issue of the Journal of Arabian Studies is out, another round of thanks is in order. I thank everyone who contributed book reviews to vol. 15, no. 1. They are @DrAishaAlSarihi, @brianjulrich, @CjvHenderson, Luc Chantre, @Blanc_Theo and others tandfonline.com/toc/rjab20/1…
Call for applications: NYU Abu Dhabi Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World apply.interfolio.com/160447
The University of Manchester and the University of Sharjah are hosting "Islamic Feminism: Hermeneutics and Activism" on Wednesday, November 26 with Dr. Mulki Al-Sharmani. Register to attend below!
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Transregional Middle Easts - a new book series from the U of Utah Press and the U of Utah’s Middle East Center - is accepting proposals for monographs and edited volumes, as well as annotated translations, anthologies, and other creative projects. More: uofupress.com/series/transre….