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The Center for Religious Studies at Central European University invites applications for two post-doctoral fellow positions for its new research project Striking from the Margins.

The Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota seeks to hire a tenure-eligible Associate Professor whose research, scholarship, academic leadership and service focus broadly on global policy.

The ACSS is looking to fill the following positions in its headquarters in Lebanon: Program Coordinator, Program Assistant and Administrative Assistant/Junior Accountant.

The Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) grantees, Mohamed Amara and Hatem Jemmali, have published a working paper, titled "Deciphering the Relationship between Internal Migration and Regional Disparities in Tunisia," as part of the Working Paper Series of Egypt's Economic Research Forum (ERF).

The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it will grant five (5) scholarships of nine months each (starting November 2016) in order to attend the courses of the Diploma in Advanced European Studies (MDAES) at the European College of Parma for the academic year 2016-2017.

The Department of General Studies at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia invites applications for full-time faculty positions with the rank of Assistant and Associate Professor in the following field: International Relations

The APSA MENA Newsletter, a newsletter emerging from the MENA Workshops of the American Political Science Association (APSA), is calling for submissions to its inaugural issue on the following theme: “Frontiers of Contemporary Research on the Middle East and North Africa.”

New York University Abu Dhabi is inviting applications from sociologists and related disciplines for faculty positions at any level (assistant, associate or full professor, tenure/tenure track) to strengthen its program in Social Research and Public Policy.

The Journal of Palestine Studies seeks editorial interns each trimester to assist in the production of the journal and building the journal’s database.

Working papers are preliminary scientific texts or pre-publication versions of academic articles, book chapters, or reviews. In addition to generating knowledge and sparking debates, the ACSS Working Paper Series can help advance your research and career. Here’s how.

Mideastwire.com and its partners are inviting applications to the next Exchanges in Tunis, January 3-10, and in Beirut, January 11-18, 2017.

The Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) launched its first Summer Institute with the first subject-focused summer session in Beirut between July 14-26, 2016.

The Polonsky Foundation is funding three scholarships for Syrian students to take an undergraduate (BA) degree in Cambridge, starting in October 2017.

The Data Science Journal is inviting paper submissions for a special issue on "Open Data and African Research."

L’Université d’Oran 2 Mohamed Ben Ahmed, la Faculté des Sciences de la Terre et de l’Univers, le Département de Géographie et d’Aménagement du Territoire et le Laboratoire EGEAT organisent LES SIXIÈMES JOURNÉES GÉOGRAPHIQUES ALGÉRIENNES le 13-14 décembre 2016.

The Media Studies Program at AUB and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences are organizing a one-day workshop on media studies research design. This workshop will give MA students at the thesis proposal stage and beyond, and early PhD students, the opportunity to work with senior scholars to develop their research design and methodology.

As part of a joint collaboration with the Arab Council for the Social Sciences, the Arab Studies Journal (ASJ) published, in its Spring 2016 issue, two articles by our New Paradigms Factory fellows in a special section under the same name of the fellowships program.

The Arab Reform Initiative (ARI) is recruiting a Senior Policy Research Fellow to second the Director by providing strategic direction for the Initiative’s programmes, producing in-depth policy relevant analysis on key political, social and security issues related to Arab countries, engaging with the Initiative’s partners and external stakeholders.

The ICI Berlin is inviting applications to participate in a Symposium titled “Middle of Where, East of What? New Geographies of Conflict” to take place on July 14, 2016.

The Institute of Palestine Studies is pleased to announce the convening of a workshop: “Towards Engaged and Responsible Research: The Case of the Palestinian Refugee Camps of Lebanon” on May 5-6, 2016, at The Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut.

This colloquium, organized in Beirut as part of the WAFAW (ERC) program, aims to critically take part in a debate over the socio-economic undergrounds of the “political crises” in the region, a scarcely explored angle when dealing with this issue.

The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and The Centre for African Studies Basel (CASB) call for applications for the 2nd CODESRIA/CASB Summer School in African Studies and Area Studies in Africa.

Dans le cadre des activités de l’Autorité Bahreïnienne pour la Culture et les Antiquités, le « Projet de transfert des savoirs » organise, en collaboration avec l’Association Internationale de Sociologie, l’Association Européenne de Sociologie et l’Association Arabe de Sociologie, la deuxième « Rencontre euro-arabe des jeunes chercheurs en sciences sociales », à Manama (Bahreïn), du 26 septembre au 2 Octobre 2016.

Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) has undertaken a three-year research/advocacy project leading to a global campaign on reform of discriminatory laws against women in the family. The project will focus on the relationship between articles of the law and perpetration of violence against women and girls.

The Tunisian Association for English Language Studies (TALES) organizes an international conference on “Discourses on Migration & Mobility” on November 25-26, 2016 in Tunisia.