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News and
Announcements:
Tenure Track Assistant Professorship in Arabic
Syracuse University announces a tenure-track
assistant professorship position in Arabic in its Department of
Languages, Literatures & Linguistics. The position will begin in
fall 2008.
The successful candidate will teach advanced Arabic language
courses, as well as courses in Arabic Linguistics, Literature &
Culture. The candidate's research specialty may be in one or more of
these areas. We seek candidates with native or near native fluency
in Arabic and a demonstrated record of excellence in research and
teaching. The candidate hired must have Ph.D. in hand by August
2008. Salary is competitive.
Send cover letter, dossier (CV, 3 letters of recommendation,
evidence of teaching excellence and research interests, with at
least one writing sample) to
Gerlinde Ulm Sanford,
Chair / Languages, Literatures & Linguistics,
340 D HBC Hall,
Syracuse, NY 13244-1160.
Submission deadline is December 1, 2007 (postmark). Women,
minorities urged to apply: AA/EOE employer.
Call for Talented Graduate Students,
Univ. of Texas at Austin
The Department of Middle Eastern
Studies (DMES) at the University of Texas at Austin is proactively
recruiting talented graduate students this year for our programs in
Arabic, Hebrew and Persian Studies. We would like to call on your
goodwill to help spread the word to qualified applicants you might
know. Click Here for more
information.
Upcoming Events and Announcements:
Past Events:
Global Fury/Global Fear: Engaging Muslims, a
speaker series.
Click Here for poster.
October 18:
Rami Khouri: After the Storm: Lebanon, Israel and the Challenges of
Middle East Stability
10:00-11:00 am.
341 Eggers Hall
Syracuse University
Rami George Khouri, a Palestinian-Jordanian and US citizen, is
director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and
International Affairs at the American University of Beirut. His
journalistic work includes writing books and an internationally
syndicated column, and he also serves as editor at large of the
Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, published throughout the Middle
East with the International Herald Tribune. His affiliations include
being a member of the Brookings Institution Task Force on US
Relations with the Islamic World, a Fellow of the Palestinian
Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (Jerusalem),
member of the Leadership Council of the Harvard University Divinity
School, and board member of the East-West Institute, the Center for
Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, and the Jordan
National Museum. Click Here to see poster.
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Ithaca College Discussion/Film Series
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of
Culture, Race, and Ethnicity
September 19,
2006
Peter Mandaville: "Critical Islam and Muslim Experience
in the West: Comparative Reflections on the UK and USA."
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Emerson Suites
October 2, 2006
Beyond CNN: Indy Media Interventions, New Visual
Imaginaries and the Iraq War
(A Series of Films)
Times and Location: TBA
October 23, 2006
Margot Badran: "Feminism Beyond East and West:
New Gender Talk and Practice in Global Islam"
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Klingenstein Lounge
November 8, 2006
Sulayman Nyang: "Post 9/11: Muslim-Christian
Relations at a Crossroads"
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Klingenstein Lounge
December 6, 2006
Deepa Kumar: "Ports, Cartoons, and Nukes:
Islamophobia and US Imperialism in the New Millennium"
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Klingenstein Lounge
Contact Person:
Asma Barlas
Professor of Politics &
Director, Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and
Ethnicity
CHS 101
Ithaca College
Ithaca, NY 14850
(607) 274-3557
www.asmabarlas.com/
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April 1, 2006
Brainstorming Session
Upstate New York Consortium for Middle Eastern Studies
The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Syracuse University
9:00-12:00
Minutes (Microsoft Word format)
For more information, contact Mehrzad
Boroujerdi
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