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Ifpo Amman, Columbia Global Centers | Amman, and Studio-X Amman invite paper submissions to the international conference titled "Contemporary Amman and the Right to the City," which will be held on November 3-4, 2018 in Amman.

For every issue of the bimonthly ACSS Newsletter, we compile a list of the latest publications by our grantees and members, including commentaries, journal and newspaper articles, and books. Below are the publications they shared with us for the May 2018 issue. Publications are listed in the language in which they were sent to us.

Roundup of open calls focused on the social sciences in the Arab region - May 17, 2018

The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) are pleased to announce the launch of a new joint grants program entitled Research on the Arts Program (RAP) starting in spring 2018.

The ACSS organized on October 24-25, 2018 in London a closed consultation meeting that gathered leading researchers on Arab countries, Turkey and Iran.

The Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) is pleased to announce a five-day intensive workshop on “Studying the Urban in the Arab Region: Concepts and Methods,” co-organized with the Odum Institute, a research institute housed at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill (USA).

Roundup of open calls focused on the social sciences in the Arab region - May 3, 2018

L'Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) offre cette année quatre aides à la mobilité internationale (AMI) à des étudiants inscrits en doctorat en France.

The Department of Social Sciences at Zayed University invites applications for full-time faculty positions in Sociology.

Roundup of open calls focused on the social sciences in the Arab region - April 19, 2018

HUSSLab at the American University in Cairo invites applications for one Senior Research Fellowship in any branch of the Humanities to spend one full Semester in Cairo, and to engage in HUSSLab’s program of research, teaching, and public outreach.

The Energy Policy and Security in the Middle East Program at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) is seeking a dynamic and highly motivated Research Assistant with strong quantitative and analytical skills to work on investigating the role and challenges of nuclear power in the Middle East.

The ACSS held its Third Research Forum on April 4-7, 2018 in Amman, Jordan. Here we look back on some of the major moments of the 4-day event, which brings together ACSS grantees, fellows and trustees and selection committee members.

The Faculty of Health Sciences at the American University of Beirut is seeking a full-time postdoctoral fellow with a background in behavioral or social sciences to manage the implementation of all aspects of the AMENAH study including design, community engagement and implementation, and evaluation.

The publication Progressive Librarian: A Journal for Critical Studies and Progressive Politics in Librarianship invites Palestinian information providers to submit papers for a special issue, “Palestinian Libraries and Archives Under Israeli Rule.”

Roundup of open calls focused on the social sciences in the Arab region - March 29, 2018

The Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo seeks to hire a Research Officer for a project on refugee entitlements in Egypt.

Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) seeks to recruit a research scholar to join its project exploring the impact of modern genetic and reproductive technologies on the Islamic structure of the nuclear family.

The Issam Fares Institute is seeking proposals for the project, "Informal adaptive mechanisms: Understanding adaptation, resilience, and agency in securing livelihoods in the informal economy among refugees from Syria in Lebanon and Jordan".

Roundup of open calls focused on the social sciences in the Arab region - March 15, 2018

For every issue of the bimonthly ACSS Newsletter, we compile a list of the latest publications by our grantees and members, including commentaries, journal and newspaper articles, and books. Below are the publications they shared with us for the March 2018 issue. Publications are listed in the language in which they were sent to us.

The American University in Cairo invites applications to the position of Specialist in Islamic Studies.

Roundup of open calls focused on the social sciences in the Arab region - March 1, 2018

The Training to Engaged Research Group (TERG) and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) held the first seminar in the two-year training in engaged transformative gender research on February 23-25, 2018 in Amman, Jordan.

The Centre d’Études Maghrébines en Algérie (CEMA) invites submissions to its conference titled "Students, Universities and Knowledge Production in the Maghrib", which will be held on June 30, 2018-July 1, 2018 in Oran.

The Institute for Religion, Culture & Public Life is organizing a conference entitled "Pluralism(s) in Emergencies: Movement, Space, and Religious Difference" in Tunis, Tunisia on July 11-12, 2018.