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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.

The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) at Qatar University is pleased to announce the opening of a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow position located in Doha, Qatar.

Carnegie Corporation of New York, one of the funders of the Arab Social Science Monitor (ASSM), will be hosting a panel discussion for the launch of the first Arab Social Science report, “Social Sciences in the Arab World: Forms of Presence” on Monday, March 28, 2016 at 5:00 PM (New York time) at the organization's headquarters in New York.

Following the publication of their articles in the Fall 2015 issue of the Arab Studies Journal, Jadaliyya interviewed our New Paradigms Factory (NPF) fellows Abir Saksouk-Sasso and Nadine Bekdache about their ACSS-funded research.

During the 2nd Annual Conference of the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship and the Arab Studies Institue, the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) will be organizing a panel titled "The University and Beyond: Power, Ethics and Academic Freedom" on Saturday March 12, 2016 at 4:15 PM.

Abstract applications are open to the Development Research Conference on Development Research in a Post-2015 World. Abstracts are welcome from all disciplinary backgrounds. Application deadline is March 21, 2016.

The Mohammed Arkoun Foundation for Peace Between Cultures announces the international competition for the Mohammed Arkoun’s Prize, 2016 edition.

The Arab Council for the Social Sciences seeks a full-time Data Entry Analyst to contribute to the data management for the Arab Social Science Monitor (ASSM) project. The position is full-time and based at the ACSS offices in Beirut, Lebanon.

The Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies at the American University of Beirut (AUB) invites applications for a full-time, open rank position in Sociology.

Ayca Alemdaroglu (Northwestern) and Daniele Cantini (MLU Halle, Orient-Institut Beirut) are inviting scholars to submit proposals to a MESA 2016 Panel exploring the formation of youth subjectivities in a number of institutional contexts at the intersection of the market and the state in the Middle East.

The Department of Education at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the American University of Beirut is organizing an education forum titled "Why the Civic Role of Arab Universities Should be Re-considered" on Friday, February 5, 2016 at AUB West Hall at 6:00 PM.

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (SEN) would like to invite contributions to a panel on nationalism at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) conference taking place on November 17-20, 2016, in Boston.

The Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) - Beirut is holding a reading seminar on the intersection between psychiatry and anthropology on January 28, 2016 at the institute at 6:00 PM.

ACSS member Karim Makdisi (American University of Beirut, Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy and International Affairs) and historian and journalist Vijay Prashad (Trinity College) have authored a new book titled "The Land of Blue Helmets: The United Nations and the Arab World."

The Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University of Beirut announces the availability of fellowships in civil society and citizenship research in and on the Arab region.

The Century Foundation, a progressive, non-partisan New York-based think tank, is seeking a full-time researcher in Beirut. The researcher’s primary duties will involve managing a new TCF research project into regional security architecture and prospects for political reform (the Arab regional security and politics project, funded by the Carnegie Corporation).