Middle East Section of the AAA

This Friday, December 6, we invite graduate students especially to our workshop on publishing that is sponsored by MES and the Association for Q***r Anthropology (AQA):

AQA-MES Graduate Student Mentoring Workshop (on Publishing)
Friday, December 6, 1:30pm to 3:30pm Eastern Standard Time
Virtual (Zoom): https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/85209921614

Please note that the time has changed from earlier advertisements!

We will be discussing publishing with close attention to how to take that paper or dissertation chapter you have written and transform it into a journal manuscript.

ALL ARE WELCOME!

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A reminder about this important event tomorrow that can help guide your teaching across the anthropology curriculum! Please share with colleagues.

Anthropologists, please join us for an important workshop on teaching the US Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, 21 years on! Featuring (and with thanks to) Wazhmah Osman, Zainab Saleh, Sonia Ahsan Tirmizi, Kerem Ussakli, and Helena Zeweri.

We hope many of you can join tomorrow to share in community and reflect on the start of this academic year.

Anthropologists, please join us for an important workshop on teaching the US Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, 21 years on! Featuring (and with thanks to) Wazhmah Osman, Zainab Saleh, Sonia Ahsan Tirmizi, Kerem Ussakli, and Helena Zeweri.

Anthropologists, please join us for an important workshop on teaching the US Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, 21 years on! Featuring (and with thanks to) Wazhmah Osman, Zainab Saleh, Sonia Ahsan Tirmizi, Kerem Ussakli, and Helena Zeweri.

Middle East Section Members, join us this Friday 25 Oct, 12PM for another in our informal MES series of check-ins on teaching and research with intensifying and expanding wars and repression of academic freedom. Zoom: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/770288330

Reminder about our teach in tomorrow! Please join us & bring friends from beyond the MES section.

We have our MES business meeting today at 8:00 pm in MTCC 712 (please note location correction). We will dedicate time to share how events of and since Oct. 7 have shaped our campuses and for brainstorming ideas to respond to this new chapter in Palestinian Nakba. We will also have some light food in case you will not have had time to eat.

If you are at the AAAs, today, at 12pm, meet us one level down from the conference registration area to participate in a collective die-in to mourn the victims in Gaza. Please dress in black or black/white if possible.

Please join us for an important workshop on teaching the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, two decades after the start of these wars. We can think across our curricula about the ways these US wars shape the SWANA region and our world today.

Middle East Anthro community, please join us Friday evening to reflect and plan.

Work, Borders, and Beyond: A Conversation with Harsha Walia

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Please join us for a wide-ranging discussion on the contemporary politics of work, migration, capital, and nationalism across North American and beyond with Harsha Walia, author of Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism and the Rise of Racist Nationalism and Undoing Border Imperialism.

Walia will be joined in conversation by Syed Hussan (Executive Director of Migrant Workers Alliance for Change) and Gilberto Rosas (Anthropologist at University of Illinois and author of the books Barrio Libre: Criminalizing States and Delinquent Refusals of the New Frontier and Unsettling: The El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the US-Mexico Border).
Organized by members of the Society for the Anthropology of Work (a section of the American Anthropological Association), and sponsored by Another Story Bookshop, this discussion is also a fundraiser for Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC) in their campaign to support migrant self-organizing and win permanent resident status for undocumented people, migrant students and workers. Admission is free, and all are welcome to attend even if they are unable to monetarily support MWAC.

Please email [email protected] for any inquiries or further information.

Space is limited, please register. We ask that you kindly cancel your ticket if you are not able to attend.

Congratulations to Rita Reis for receiving an honorable mention in the Middle East Section photography prize! Rita Reis's work shows how Sahrawi youth gather in struggle in moments of assertion, vitality, and quiet. We look forward to celebrating this work on Friday, November 17, from 8:15-9:45 pm in Toronto.

2023 Prize winners! - Middle East Section (MES) The Middle East Section (MES) is pleased to announce this year's winners for our Book Award, Student Paper Prize, and Photography Prize! MES Book AwardWinner: Nomi Stone, Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire (University of California Press, 2022) MES Student Paper PrizeWin...

Congratulations to Peter Habib for receiving an honorable mention in the Middle East Section photography prize! Peter Habib's work illuminates the labor of securing water in Lebanon. We look forward to celebrating this work on Friday, November 17, from 8:15-9:45 pm in Toronto.

2023 Prize winners! - Middle East Section (MES) The Middle East Section (MES) is pleased to announce this year's winners for our Book Award, Student Paper Prize, and Photography Prize! MES Book AwardWinner: Nomi Stone, Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire (University of California Press, 2022) MES Student Paper PrizeWin...

Congratulations to Çağla Ay for winning the Middle East Section Photography Prize for her penetrating photography of the human and more-than-human labor of the orange harvest in Turkey. Join us to celebrate this work on Friday, November 17, from 8:15-9:45 in Toronto!

2023 Prize winners! - Middle East Section (MES) The Middle East Section (MES) is pleased to announce this year's winners for our Book Award, Student Paper Prize, and Photography Prize! MES Book AwardWinner: Nomi Stone, Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire (University of California Press, 2022) MES Student Paper PrizeWin...

Congratulations to the Tony J. Chamoun for receiving an honorable mention his paper, “Violent Histories in a Diasporic Register: Between Bodily Durabilities, Sacrificial Others, and Racialized Strangers.” Join us to celebrate this vital work on Friday, November 17, from 8:15-9:45 in Toronto!

2023 Prize winners! - Middle East Section (MES) The Middle East Section (MES) is pleased to announce this year's winners for our Book Award, Student Paper Prize, and Photography Prize! MES Book AwardWinner: Nomi Stone, Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire (University of California Press, 2022) MES Student Paper PrizeWin...

Congratulations to the Middle East Section Student Paper Prize winner! Join us to learn more about the work of Hazal Aydın on “Open Body, Theatrical Intimacy and Sexual Harassment: Understanding Gendered Embodiments Through Turkey’s Theatre Industry” at the Friday, November 17, Business Meeting from 8:15-9:45 in Toronto!

2023 Prize winners! - Middle East Section (MES) The Middle East Section (MES) is pleased to announce this year's winners for our Book Award, Student Paper Prize, and Photography Prize! MES Book AwardWinner: Nomi Stone, Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire (University of California Press, 2022) MES Student Paper PrizeWin...

Congratulations to Nomi Stone for receiving the MES Book Award 2023 for her book Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire (University of California Press, 2022), a gripping political phenomenology of American empire and Iraq. It presents an ethnography of redeployment training exercises in the US and Jordan that illuminates the lifeworlds of Iraqi role-players who act out to mourn, bargain, and die like adversaries or allies to US soldiers. Join us to recognize her work at the Friday, November 17 Business Meeting from 8:15-9:45.

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520344372/pinelandia

https://mes.americananthro.org/2023/11/02/2023-prize-winners/

Pinelandia Across the pine forests and deserts of America, there are mock Middle Eastern villages, mostly hidden from public view. Containing mosques, restaurants, street signs, graffiti in Arabic, and Iraqi role-players, these villages serve as military training sites for cultural literacy and special operati...