From the Organizers: Middle East Beyond Borders (MEBB) Fall 2025: Call for Papers Please complete this survey to record your interest in presenting a polished work-in-progress (polished dissertation chapter or an undefended prospectus) at MEBB during the Fall 2025 semester. The MEBB workshop aims to foster an interdisciplinary community of scholars working on the past …
Omar Abdel Ghaffar (PhD candidate, HMES/JD’25) will join us to share a chapter titled “Canonizing Assent: Legal Canons in Action in late Medieval Jerusalem” on September 22nd. Saaleh Baseer (PhD candidate, HMES) will respond. We will be meeting from 6:15-7:30pm in the Finnegan Room (Barker 403) and dinner will be provided. See event flyer for more …
From the organizers: “Dismantling the Family Unit”: Clerics and Cohabitation in Contemporary Iran 202 Jones Hall, Princeton University Sep 29, 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm Intimate partner relationships are an affective site of neoliberalism, constantly transforming to fit the exigencies of the moment. Individuals uniquely adapt marriage expectations and practices within and beyond normative …
The Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School is currently accepting applications for a not-for-credit lecture series offered by two of our Senior Fellows this semester: Dr. Youssef Chahed, former PM of Tunisia, and Hisham Kassem, former Egyptian publisher. The Struggle for Democracy in the Arab World Dr. Youssef Chahed, former Prime Minister of …
From the institution: Faculty of Humanities, Asia-Africa-Studies, Islamic Studies Salary level: EGR. 13 TV-L Start date: as soon as possible, fixed until 31.12.2027 (This is a fixed-term contract in accordance with Section 2 of the academic fixed-term labor contract act ). Application deadline: 03.10.2025 Scope of work: part-time Weekly hours: 50 % of standard work …
Date and Time: Thursday, October 9 at 4:30pm Location: The Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), The Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) Knafel Building Speaker: Adam Baczko (Research Associate Professor, CNRS, SciencesPo) Talk Title: “The Taliban Courts in Afghanistan, Waging War by Law” Discussant: Thomas Barfield, Ph.D. (Professor of Anthropology, Boston University)
TUE 14 OCT 2025 | 12.30-1.30p US EST | Zoom Islamic Law Speaker Series: Rami Koujah (Harvard Law School) The Invention of Islamic Legal Personhood: Artifact to Ontology (Harvard University Press) Dr. Rami Koujah (Harvard Law School) will present “The Invention of Islamic Legal Personhood: From Artifact to Ontology,” a chapter from his forthcoming book, Islamic Legal …
The Journal of Islamic Law welcomes scholarship in Islamic law for its main publication as well as its dynamic forum, which features scholarly responses, debates, and new developments in Islamic law scholarship or at the intersection of Islamic law and data science. We seek articles of up to 15,000 words for the Journal of Islamic …
From the organizers: The American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) is pleased to invite submissions for papers to be presented at the 2025 ASCL Annual Meeting, to be held at the McGill Faculty of Law, Montreal, Canada, from Thursday, October 16 to Saturday, October 18, 2025. The meeting is hosted by the Wainwright Chair in …
Prof. Houssem Chachia (Visiting Professor, NELC) will join us to share a paper titled “The Conquest of Tunis (1535): Memory, Defeat, and Celebration Across Cultures” on October 20th. Professor Jessica Marglin (Visiting Professor, NELC) will respond. We will be meeting from 6:15-7:30pm in the Finnegan Room (Barker 403) and dinner will be provided. See event flyer …
