Call for Submissions: Fusayfsa’, the Smith College student-led Middle East Studies Journal, January 30th, 2026
January 30, 2026
Fusayfsa`, Smith College’s student-led Middle East Studies Journal, is currently accepting submissions from undergraduate students to contribute to our fifth edition! We are looking for research papers, opinion pieces, book/movie reviews, poetry, visual artwork, or any other forms of media produced by students related to the MENA region!
Submit your work via this google form.
Submitting to Fusayfsa` is open to any undergraduate level student interested in the MENA region. The deadline for submissions is January 30th. Fusayfsa` is divided into two sections: journal and magazine. There are separate guidelines for each section.
Journal Submission
The journal section will be accepting research papers on any topic related to the MENA region. Papers can be varied in length (maximum 3000), following Chicago style for citation, font 12, Times New Roman and double spaced.
Magazine Submission
The magazine section will be accepting anything ranging from art (with the permission of the artist, we may use the art piece as the cover of our journal and/or integrate it into our website), op-eds (similar guidelines as for the research papers, but with a maximum word limit of 1500 words), book reviews, poetry, multimedia etc. (any sort of creative work related to the MENA region is acceptable!)
Please email [email protected] with questions!
