Hello everyone,

The deadline for submissions to the Amerasia Special Issue: Arab/Americas has been extended until September 30th. Please consider submitting your work and spread the word. Below is the text of the CFP:

Call for Papers for a special issue of Amerasia – Deadline Extended till September 30, 2017

Guest Editors: Dr. Sarah Gua…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

The deadline for submissions to the Amerasia Special Issue: Arab/Americas has been extended until September 30th. Please consider submitting your work and spread the word. Below is the text of the CFP:

Call for Papers for a special issue of Amerasia – Deadline Extended till September 30, 2017

Guest Editors: Dr. Sarah Gualtieri (…[Read more]

In her introduction to her path-breaking book, Bint Arab, Evelyn Shakir notes that most of the Arab immigrants and children of immigrants of her generation from the 1910s and 1920s called themselves “Syrian,” then repackaged themselves as “Lebanese” in the 1940s, only to recast themselves in the 1960s as “Arabs.” This special issue of Amerasia ai…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

We hope you will join us for the following panels organized for the 2017 MLA by the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum. They are as follows:

Session 200: States of In/Security: Global Palestine in Literature, Culture, Art, and Activism
Friday, 6 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 104B, Pennsylvania Convention Ce…[Read more]

Dear members,

It is time to suggest nominations for a new committee member to the MLA Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum’s current Executive Committee.

The procedure for nominations is outlined by Anna Chang and posted on 10 August 2016 on the MLA Commons’ “News from the MLA”: https://news.mla.hcommons-staging.org/2016/08/10/nominatio…[Read more]

Waypoints and Watersheds: Arab American Activism and Memories
A Conference Marking the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 War
Arab American Studies Association 2017 Conference
March 24-26, 2017
Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
Several important Arab and Arab American institutions and associations were established in the immediate aftermath…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

As per, MLA member communications by Carol Zuses, the MLA “at its meeting during the 2016 convention in Austin, the Delegate Assembly approved six constitutional amendments and one resolution.” One of those has to do with speaking out against Islamophobia. As Carol Zuses’s email points out, “the assembly’s actions are not fi…[Read more]

Call for Papers 1:

AMERICAN REPRESENTATIONS OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

2016 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference/Midwest American Culture Association

Thursday-Sunday, October 6-9, 2016

Chicago, IL

Hilton Rosemont Chicago

Deadline: April 30, 2016

Submissions.mpcaaca.org

Topics can include–but are certainly not limited…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

Please spread the word and consider submitting an abstract to the following panel idea for MLA 2017:

Beyond Bounds: The Refugee in Global Arab/Arab American Studies

Interrogating concepts of cosmopolitanism, exile, globally through the figure of the Arab refugee across historical/epistemic/disciplinary/geographical boundaries.…[Read more]

Call for Papers: The Gender and Sexuality of Borders and Margins

JMEWS invites feminist scholars working in any discipline or interdisciplinary area in the interpretive social sciences and humanities to submit area-specific manuscripts on any topic related to the theme of The Gender and Sexuality of Borders and Margins. Manuscripts may address…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

Below is a CFP for a collaborative session organized by the Global Arab and Arab American Literature forum and the Life Writing forum at the MLA.

Writing Migrant Selves in Transnational Arab Contexts. Regional, transnational, cross-border, multilingual Arab constructions of selfhood. Please submit 250 word abstracts and bios by…[Read more]

Hello Everyone,

We thought you’d be interested in attending one or all of the sessions that we have organized for the Global Arab and Arab American Literature forum. This is our first official presence at the MLA, so we would welcome your support! Below are the panels we have organized. Hope to see you there!

Politics of Solidarities and…[Read more]