Established in 2022, the purpose of the working group is to investigate the relationship between arts and the social sciences and identify gaps and research agenda/s on writing on the arts in the Arab region. The activities of the working group are informed by the four-cycle collaboration between the ACSS and the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) on the Research on the Arts (RAP) research grants program.
Members of the Working Group are:
– Driss Ksikes, fiction and nonfiction writer, playwright and scholar
– Ismail Nashef, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies in Qatar
– Kirsten Scheid, associate professor of Anthropology at the American University of Beirut
– Tarek El Ariss, professor and chair of Middle Eastern Studies at Dartmouth College
