Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA)

2024 ANNUAL CONFERENCE KEYNOTE ANNOUNCED:
Prof. Gilles Kepel, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
"Holocausts: Israel, Gaza and the War Against the West"
November 2-4, Washington, D.C.

MORE HERE--> https://mailchi.mp/asmeascholars/keynotekepel?e=7c84de0b40

DEADLINE, 7/1: Bernard Lewis Prize 2024 Submissions! - https://mailchi.mp/asmeascholars/2024_bernard_lewis_prize-1387508

ASMEA Executive Director Dr. Asaf Romirowsky shared his take on the multiple war fronts in Israel, US elections, potential Israeli elections and more with Hadas Kuznits of "Hadas on Air." WATCH HERE: 👇

An heroic mission -- Welcome Home Noa, Shlomi, Almog and Andry. A conversation with of Scholars For Peace in the Middle East and The Association for the Study of the Middle East in Africa.We talk about th...

Published in 2014, ‘The Jews of Iran: The History, Religion and Culture of a Community in the Islamic World,’ edited by Houman M. Sarshar, explores the active role of Jews in Iranian history over 2,700 years, analyzing their contributions to Iranian society, culture, and identity through ancient texts, art, medieval trade routes, and modern literature, highlighting their integration into Iranian culture and challenging their portrayal as a passive minority.

Book Summary:

“Living continuously in Iran for over 2700 years, Jews have played an integral role in the history of the country. Frequently understood as a passive minority group, and often marginalized by the Zoroastrian and succeeding Muslim hegemony,, the Jews of Iran are instead portrayed in this book as having had an active role in the development of Iranian history, society, and culture. Examining ancient texts, objects, and art from a wide range of times and places throughout Iranian history, as well as the medieval trade routes along which these would have travelled,

The Jews of Iran offers in-depth analysis of the material and visual culture of this community. Additionally, an exploration of modern novels and accounts of Jewish-Iranian women's experiences sheds light on the social history and transformations of the Jews of Iran from the rule of Cyrus the Great (c. 600-530 BCE) to the Iranian Revolution of 1978/9 and onto the present day.

By using the examples of women writers such as Gina Barkhordar Nahai and Dalia Sofer, the implications of fictional representation of the history of the Jews of Iran and the vital importance of communal memory and tradition to this community are drawn out. By examining the representation of identity construction through lenses of religion, gender, and ethnicity, the analysis of these writers' work highlights how the writers undermine the popular imagining and imaging of the Jewish 'other' in an attempt to create a new narrative integrating the Jews of Iran into the idea of what it means to be Iranian.

This long view of the Jewish cultural influence on Iran's social, economic, political, and cultural development makes this book a unique contribution to the field of Judeo-Iranian studies and to the study of Iranian history more broadly.”

Available:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/jews-of-iran-9781780768885/

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APPLY NOW: Bernard Lewis Prize 2024 Submissions! - https://mailchi.mp/asmeascholars/2024_bernard_lewis_prize-1387504

DUE TODAY, 5/15: Panel & Paper Proposals! -

2022 Annual Conference Call for Papers & Panels and Grants Info APPLY NOW!

TOMORROW, 5/7: "Israel/Palestine in World Religions: Whose Promised Land?" - https://mailchi.mp/asmeascholars/troen_israelpalestine-1387496

REMINDER: Join us TOMORROW, 5/3 at 12pm EST for a webinar discussion on "Just Another Coup? What’s at Stake in Niger" with Prof. William F.S. Miles, Northeastern University. 🇳🇪
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We are pleased to announce the publication of Prof. U*i Rabi’s and Dr. Mira Tzoreff’s new book -
“From the 1919 Revolution to the 2011 Arab Spring - A History of Three Egyptian Thawras Reconsidered” by Routledge.

This book focuses on three Egyptian revolutions - in 1919, 1952, and 2011 - and argues that each of these revolutions is a milestone which represents a meaningful turning point in modern Egyptian history.
The book is an edited collection of articles written by scholars who participated in the January 2018 international workshop, “From Thawrat 1919 to the Arab Spring: A Century of Egyptian History Reconsidered”, held at the MDC.

Please see this link for further information - https://www.routledge.com/From-the-1919-Revolution-to-the-2011-Arab-Spring-A-History-of-Three-Egyptian-Thawras-Reconsidered/Rabi-Tzoreff/p/book/9781032398273

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(Pictured below: The 2023-24 fellows.)

The deadline is TODAY to apply for 2024 Annual ASMEA Conference Research and Travel Grants! - https://mailchi.mp/asmeascholars/2024annual-conference-1387476

Due 4/30: Research and Travel Grant 2024 Applications! - https://mailchi.mp/asmeascholars/2024annual-conference-1387472

Please join us on Friday, May 3 at 12:00pm EST for our next webinar discussion with Prof. Willam Miles, Northeastern University, on "Just Another Coup? What’s at Stake in Niger." 🇳🇪
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APPLY NOW: Bernard Lewis Prize 2024 Submissions! - https://mailchi.mp/asmeascholars/2024_bernard_lewis_prize-1387464

Due 4/30: Research and Travel Grant 2024 Applications! - https://mailchi.mp/asmeascholars/2024annual-conference-1387460

TODAY, 12pm EST: Please join us for our next webinar discussion on "The Origins of Modern Islamist Antisemitism" with Prof. Meir Litvak, Tel Aviv University. Register here --> asmeascholars.org/webinar

TODAY, 12pmEST: "The Origins of Modern Islamist Antisemitism" -

Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa Elliott Abrams to Keynote Tenth Annual ASMEA Conference

Due 4/30: Research and Travel Grant 2024 Applications! - https://mailchi.mp/asmeascholars/2024annual-conference-1387455

Kurdish Studies Conference Kurdish Studies Conference, 21–22 May 2024

The End of Everything A New York Times–bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns th...

Please join us for our next ASMEA webinar discussion on "The Origins of Modern Islamist Antisemitism" with Prof. Meir Litvak, Tel Aviv University.
Thursday, April 4, 12pm EST.
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ספרים חדשים בספריית מרכז משה דיין:
Higher Education Exchange between America and the Middle East through the Twentieth Century, by Teresa Brawner Bevis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
On Islam: Muslims and the Media, by Rosemary Pennington and Hilary E. Kahn (Indiana University Press, 2018)
The Middle East in Transition: The Centrality of Citizenship, by Nils A. Butenschøn and Roel Meijer (Edward Elgar, 2018)
לפרטים נוספים אודות הספריה של מרכז משה דיין והאוספים שנמצאים בה:
https://dayan.org/he/content/3787
מוזמנים לבקר בספריה!

Due 4/15: Research and Travel Grant 2024 Applications! - https://mailchi.mp/asmeascholars/2024annual-conference-1387447

APPLY NOW: Bernard Lewis Prize 2024 Submissions! Deadline: July 1. - https://mailchi.mp/asmeascholars/2024_bernard_lewis_prize

Prof. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman latest article in the Journal of the Middle East and Africa analyzes the changing contours of Morocco’s involvement in the inter-Arab system.
Read the full article here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/.../10.../21520844.2024.2304784

Prof. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman has published an article in "The Journal of the Middle East and Africa" which analyzes the changing contours of Morocco’s involvement in the inter-Arab system.
Read the full article here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21520844.2024.2304784

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