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

REMINDER: Submissions for the 2025 Bernard Lewis Prize are due by Tuesday, July 1.
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Today we are announcing a new Master’s program in Middle East Policy Studies! This is the product of a unique partnership between Pepperdine School of Public Policy and The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The program will be based at Pepperdine University’s Washington D.C. campus and will extend full-tuition scholarships to all students in its initial cohort. Visit the website to learn more: https://publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu/master-middle-east-policy-studies/

The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and The Alliance Center for Iranian Studies cordially invite you to attend our webinar:
"THE IRAN-ISRAEL WAR AND ITS IMPLICATIONS".
Tuesday, June 17, 2025, at 18:00 (Israel Time).

Join webinar: https://tau-ac-il.zoom.us/j/85172213735

Tel Aviv University | אוניברסיטת תל-אביב The Alliance Center for Iranian Studies - מרכז אליאנס ללימודים איראניים בית הספר להיסטוריה ע״ש צבי יעבץ-אוניברסיטת תל אביב החוג להיסטוריה של המזרח התיכון ואפריקה באוניברסיטת תל אביב

The Future of Egypt and North Africa | Crown at 20: The Future of the Middle East See full event information on the Crown Center website: https://www.brandeis.edu/crown/events/2025/20th-anniversary.htmlJoin our mailing list: https://www.br...

You've experienced the strawberry moon in Montreal, but did you take the time to talk to it? Layli tells the moon the secret of her love for Majnun. From an 18th-century manuscript of Laylī o Majnūn (Persian) in McGill Rare Books/Islamic Studies. MS RBD Persian 15.

You whose face is like my sweetheart's face,
You who are a reminder of my lover's face,
I wish you would speak to my kind moon-faced one,
in this way, as if from my own tongue…

ای رویِ تو همچو روی یارم
وی از رخِ یار یادگارم
خواهم که بماهِ مهربانم
ز اینگونه بگوئی از زبانم

📣 LAST CALL: Annual Conference Paper & Panel Proposals due TODAY, 5/15!

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By popular request, the deadline has been EXTENDED to May 8 for 2025 ASMEA Research and Travel Grant Applications. APPLY NOW --> https://www.asmeascholars.org/upcoming-conference

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MELC R1A Summer Sessions A (May 27- Jul 3)
Registration: https://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2025-summer-melc-r1a-001-lec-001

Join us for a webinar discussion on THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 12pm EST with Prof. Avi Shilon on: Teaching Israel in a Year of War: Reflections and Thoughts.

"Then masked men walked into my class at Columbia University," writes Prof. Shilon about his experience as a visiting professor from Israel earlier this semester.

Avi Shilon has taught with the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University and the Taub Center for Israel Studies at New York University. He also has been a postdoctoral fellow at The Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel and at Tsinghua University, China. Shilon's most recent books are: The Decline of the Left-Wing in Israel: Yossi Beilin and the Politics of the Peace Process (2020), Ben-Gurion: His Later Years in the Political Wilderness (2016), and Menachem Begin: A Life (2012).

Prof. Shilon is a long-time member of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA).

REGISTER HERE —> https://www.asmeascholars.org/webinar

Please join us on MONDAY, March 17, 12pm EST for a webinar discussion on “Daniel in Babylon: How He Navigated Politics in Exile and What It Means for Us Today,” the latest book by ASMEA President Prof. Mark Clark. REGISTER —> https://www.asmeascholars.org/webinar