📢 The registration process to attend the Annual
#Palestine_Forum
, organized by the
#ACRPS
and the Institute for Palestine Studies
@PalStudies
, is now open. The
#forum
will take place on 25 - 27 January 2025 in Doha.
🔗 Online Application for Attendees:
Rajae Ankoud suggests that prosopography can set off new lines of research in biographical histories of individuals and groups, to derive new and possibly different conclusions from those we have grown accustomed to.
Read the study here👇
#AlMuntaqa
At the
#ACRPS
seminar, Mustafa Khushaim analyzes the tumultuous Libyan crisis in the context of the Arab Spring and discusses the impact of foreign interference on the democratic transition in Libya.
Read more about the seminar 👇
The
#ACRPS
has published Ghassan Al-Kahlout’s foundational book, Humanitarian Work: Reality and Challenges, as an effort to position this new academic domain in the Arab world and assist in the formation of Arab researchers.
Read more about the book here👇
#IranianStudiesUnit
invites you to join a lecture by Nasser Hadian of
#Tehran
University titled “Iranian Foreign and Security Policies in the Post-Trump Era”
⏱3PM Doha, 12PM GMT
For attending:
🗓️ 21-12-2020
📍Zoom, FB, Twitter & Youtube
#Iran
#ACRPS
Public lecture by Bryan Turner titled “Sociology of Crisis and Catastrophe”
⏱09:00 Doha time, 06:00 GMT
📋Wed 06-01-2021
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube
#ACRPSWinterSchool
#Arab_Center
The ACRPS has published one of the first political diaries written about the Emirate of Transjordan by Aref al-Aref, the Secretary General of the Transjordan government (1926-1929).
Read more about the book👇
📢The
#ACRPSWinterSchool
addresses “The State in Flux” and will be held during the period 3-11 January 2021. The program builds on the success of the previous round which established a new academic tradition in the Arab world.
For more information👇
The
#ACRPS
hosted Amal Ghazal
@amalghazal
to lecture on “Liberal Thought in the Age of the Nahda” discussing a current of Arab thought running counter to the liberal ideas that emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
More details here👇
Public lecture by David Lake titled “Indirect Rule: The Making of U.S. International Hierarchy”
⏱️19:30 Doha time, 16:30 GMT
🗓️04-01-2021
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube
#ACRPSWinterSchool
#Arab_Center
Public lecture by Daniel Nexon and Alexander Cooley on "Exiting from Hegemony"
⏱16:00 Doha time, 13:00 GMT
📋 Fri 08-01-2021
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube
#ACRPSWinterSchool
#Arab_Center
Watch Rola El-Husseini's lecture on "Theorizing Gender and the Sectarian State: Evidence from
#Iraq
and
#Lebanon
"
Chair: Abdelkarim Amengay
Watch here:
#ACRPSWinterSchool
Javier Guirado on his
#ACRPSWinterSchool
experience:
I presented a paper about the city of Rawabi in the West Bank and am grateful to have participated in the Winter School and being able to receive very insightful feedback from the Arab Center staff and from the participants.
📣 Call for Applications:
The
#Winter_School
is now open to advanced graduate
#students
and early career
#researchers
in the social sciences and humanities.
🗓 Online
#Application
Deadline: 15 October 2021.
For More details about the requirements 👇
Public lecture by Wajih Kawtharani titled “When sectarian leadership turns into a mediator between the citizen and the state: The Lebanese experience”
⏱16:15 Doha time, 13:15 GMT
⏱03-01-2021
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube
#ACRPSWinterSchool
#Arab_Center
Join us for a lecture by Lisa Anderson titled “The rise and retreat of the state in the Middle East and North Africa” as part of the
#ACRPSWinterSchool
.
⏱️16:00 Doha time, 13:00 GMT
🗓️Tuesday, 05-01-2021
📍Facebook, Twitter, YouTube of the
#ACRPS
María González-Úbeda Alférez
@gonzalez_ubeda
, PhD candidate in Arab and Islamic Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, shares her experience with the second round of the
#ACRPSWinterSchool
held on January 2021.
📣The
#ACRPS
announces a call for papers for the third Conference for Arab Graduate Students in Western Universities, to be held from 26-28 March 2022.
🗓️Deadline to submit proposals: 15 November 2021
More details about the requirements here:
Join the
#ACRPS
and the
@PalStudies
to a lecture by Nazmi Al-Jubeh on “
#Jerusalem
and the Battle for Survival.” The
#ACRPS
is also pleased to invite you to the launch of the “Jerusalem Story” website following the event.
🗓️18 June 2022
⏲️18:00 Doha and Jerusalem time, 15:00 GMT
🔴Live now
Public lecture by Nazmi Al-Jubeh, Professor of History at Birzeit University, titled “
#Jerusalem
and the Battle for Survival,” moderated by Ayat Hamdan.
@PalStudies
YouTube link:
The
#ACRPS
#Gulf
and Arabian Peninsula Studies Unit public lecture by
#Faisal_Abu_Sulaib
titled “Political Tribalism in Kuwait,” moderated by Abd-Elrahman Al-Bakir.
The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the
@dohainstitute
have published the 4th
#issue
(Spring 2022) of Hikama, the biannual peer-reviewed Public Administration and Public Policy
#journal
.
Check out the new issue⤵️
📣 Announcement
The online application for the fifth round of the
#ACRPS
#Winter_School
, which will be held in January 2024, is now open.
For submission and more details:
The
@dohainstitute
successfully received international institutional accreditation by the Quality Assurance Agency in the UK, becoming the first academic institution in Qatar to have a successful accreditation review by the QAA.
More details⤵️
The
#ACRPS
invites you to a symposium titled “
#Sports
,
#Politics
,
#Society
”.
🗓️1-2 October, 2022
⏲️9:30 Doha time, 6:30 GMT
📍Held in-person at
#ACRPS
Auditorium 2
🔴Livestreamed on
#ACRPS
Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.
📣 Announcement
The online application for the fifth round of the
#ACRPS
#Winter_School
on "Social Media, Surveillance and Societies of Control," which will be held in January 2024, is still open.
For submission and more details:
📢Call for Papers
The
#ACRPS
#IranianStudiesUnit
is welcoming abstracts for its fourth annual conference, titled “The
#Social_Sciences
and
#Humanities
in
#Iran
: Possibilities and Constraints,” to be held from 9-10 October 2024.
Abstract submission deadline: 17 April 2024
For
📝Azmi Bishara
@AzmiBishara
addresses the moral questions raised by the Israeli war on
#Gaza
, noting that
#morality
—not trust—is the first casualty of
#war
, since morals are already thrust once the campaigns of
#propaganda
and lies commence.
Read here⤵️
📣 Announcement
The online application for the sixth round of the
#ACRPS
#Winter_School
on "
#Media_in_Wartime
," which will be held in January 2025, is still open.
🔴 Note: submission deadline extended until 20 August 2024.
For submission and more details:
📈Follow the livestreaming of the
#ACRPS
press conference to announce the results of the Eighth
#Arab_Opinion_Index
2022 through our social media platforms.
🗓Tuesday, 3 January 2023
⏲️11:00 Doha time, 8:00 GMT
🔗Read more:
📘The
#ACRPS
and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published their seventh yearbook,
#Istishraf
, on the future of work in
#Arab
countries.
More details about the new issue⤵️
📊
#ACRPS
#Arab_Opinion_Index
2022 in numbers
📢 Follow the press conference to announce the results of the
#Arab_Opinion_Index
2022 live on
#ACRPS
social media platforms
🗓Tuesday, 3 January 2023
⏲️11:00 Doha time, 8:00 GMT
🔗Read more:
📊
#Arab_Opinion_Index
2022: 44% of Arab public opinion agreed that
#Russia
's declaration of
#war
on
#Ukraine
was unjustified, compared to 19% who said it was justified, while 37% said they do not know or declined to answer.
🔗Read more:
📚The
#ACRPS
has published Contemporary Intellectual Currents in the Context of
#Arab
Development by Albert Dagher. The book sheds light on the
#intellectual
trends that offer more logical solutions to the problem of Arab
#development
.
More details⤵️
📣The
#ACRPS
and the Institute for Palestine Studies
@PalStudies
have opened the registration portal for those interested in attending the
#Annual_Palestine_Forum
, which will be held in Doha on January 28-30, 2023.
For details and registration⤵️
📣The Call for Papers for the “Annual
#Palestine
Forum 2023,” organized by the
#ACRPS
and the Institute for Palestine Studies
@PalStudies
, is still open.
🔴Proposal submission deadline: 31 May, 2022
More details here⤵️
🔴The
#ACRPS
has extended the deadline to submit applications for the fifth International
#WinterSchool
Program on the topic of “Social
#Media
,
#Surveillance
and Societies of
#Control
” until 8 July 2023.
For submissions and more details⤵️
📢Call for Applications
The
#ACRPS
is welcoming applications for its fifth International Winter School titled “Media in Wartime”.
🗓Application deadline: 30 June 2024
More details⤵️
The book is the first of a trilogy, the Understanding Revolutions series by
@AzmiBishara
, seeking to provide a rich, comprehensive and lucid assessment of the revolutions in three states:
#Tunisia
,
#Syria
, and
#Egypt
.
💼Available Vacancy
The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies is looking for programmers specialized in machine learning or data sciences to join an applied research and development unit.
More information⤵️
📙
#AlMuntaqa
, published by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the
#social_sciences
and
#humanities
.
🔗All issues of
#AlMuntaqa
are now available on its official website (open access)⤵️
📗The Arab Center and the Doha Institute have published the eighteenth issue of their biannual peer-reviewed journal
#Ostour
, dedicated to
#historical
studies.
More details about the new issue⤵️
📓 The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate
#Studies
have published the 5th issue of
#Hikama
, the biannual peer-reviewed public
#administration
and public policy
#journal
.
🔗 Learn more about the issue:
Join the
#ACRPS
and the Institute for Palestine Studies today for a public lecture by Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Palestinian Physician and Surgeon, titled “The Destruction of
#Gaza
’s
#Health
Sector: Confronting Devastation and Forced
#Displacement
.”
⏰17:30 Doha time, 14:30 GMT
In a public lecture, organized by the Arab Center and the Institute for Palestine Studies
@PalStudies
, Rashid Khalidi, Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, examines settler
#colonialism
in
#Ireland
and
#Palestine
.
🔴YouTube link:
@Danaelkurd
examines three main approaches implemented by the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies to indigenise and decolonise International Relations as a discipline in the Arab world.
Full paper here⤵️
The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies invites you to attend a press conference announcing the results of its recent poll assessing
#Arab_Public_Opinion
about the current
#Israeli
war on
#Gaza
.
🗓 Wednesday, 10 January 2024
🕕 12:00 Doha time, 09:00 GMT
📍 Livestream
📚The
#ACRPS
has published
#Aesthetic
and Image Consciousness in Husserl’s Phenomenology by Wissal Elech. The book aims to explore the place of aesthetics in the thought of Edmund Husserl, the philosopher known as the founder of
#phenomenology
.
More here⤵️
📝The
#ACRPS
#Istishraf
Journal for
#Future
Studies invites interested researchers to submit academic research for a special issue titled “The Future of
#Work
in the
#Arab
Countries.”
🔴Deadline: June 30, 2022
More information⤵️
The
#ACRPS
is delighted to invite you to attend the launch of the
#Syrian_Memory
.
#Syrian
Memory is a platform generated by a research project conducted by the
#Arab_Center
since 2019, which hosts the largest reliable and verified archive about the events in
#Syria
since the
📣The
#ACRPS
extends the deadline to submit applications for its fourth
#Winter_School
Program, to be held in January 2023.
🗓New deadline for submission of proposals: 20 August 2022
More details here⤵️
The
#ACRPS
and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies invite you to the launch of “The
#Political_Science
of the Middle East:
#Theory
and
#Research
Since the
#ArabUprisings
” with Marc Lynch, Jillian Schwedler, and Sean Yom.
🗓️Sunday, 16 October 2022
⏲️10:00 Doha time, 7:00 GMT
The Center for Strategic Studies of the
#Qatari
Ministry of Defense and the
#Arab
Center for Research and Policy Studies sign a
#memorandum
of understanding to instigate cooperation, coordination and participation between the two parties.
More details⤵️
#IranianStudiesUnit
is hosting a lecture by Seyed Hossein Mousavian
@hmousavian
, Middle East Security and Nuclear Policy Specialist
@PrincetonSPIA
: "
#Iran
and the
#Gulf
Cooperation Council
#GCC
: A Possible Partnership"
⏲️5 PM Doha time, 2 PM GMT
🗓️22-10
📌FB, Twitter & YouTube
The
#ACRPS
and
@PalStudies
are delighted to announce that registration is open for the Annual
#Palestine
Studies
#Forum
. The conference will be held from 28-30 January 2023. Those interested in the
#Palestinian
question who would like to attend can now apply to do so.
📣 Announcement
The online application for the fifth round of the
#ACRPS
#Winter_School
on "Social Media, Surveillance and Societies of Control," which will be held in January 2024, is still open.
🔴 Note: submission deadline extended until 8 July 2023.
Public lecture by Cristóbal Kaltwasser on “Riding the
#Populist
Wave: The Mainstream Right in Crisis,” moderated by Abdelkarim Amengay.
#ACRPSWinterSchool
📣 Announcement
The online application for the sixth round of the
#ACRPS
#Winter_School
on "
#Media_in_Wartime
," which will be held in January 2025, is still open.
🔴 Note: submission deadline extended until 20 August 2024.
For submission and more details:
Mehari Taddele Maru presents "Transition in
#Ethiopia
: from armed struggle to coalition Politics Forward-looking, New Thinking and Strategic Foresight" at
#BulletsToBallots
"
📙The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published the 19th issue of the biannual peer-reviewed journal
#Ostour
, dedicated to
#historical
studies.
More details about the new issue⤵️
📢The
#ACRPS
extends the deadline to submit applications to participate in the fourth Conference for Arab Graduate Students in Western Universities
#AGSC2024
until 30 September 2023.
More details about the conference and how to apply⤵️
📘The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published the 45th issue (Summer 2023) of the quarterly peer-reviewed journal
#Omran
, dedicated to the
#social_sciences
.
More details about the new issue⤵️
📙The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published the 59th issue of their bimonthly peer-reviewed
#political_science
and
#international_relations
journal, Siyasat Arabiya.
More details⤵️
📙The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published Issue 13 (May/June 2023) of
#Almuntaqa
, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to humanities and social sciences and published in English.
Access here⤵️
“The gap between the Iranian state and Iranian society is now wider than ever, with
#women
leading the charge to separate a society yearning for freedom from a state that demands compliance and conformity,”
@MehranKamrava
on the recent
#protests
in
#Iran
.
📣 The
#Arab_Center
for Research and Policy Studies announces the availability of a limited number of seats at the fifth International
#Winter_School
2024 (IWS) which will be held in January 2024.
🔴 Submission deadline: 15 September 2023
More details ⤵️
Azmi Bishara
@AzmiBishara
explores the
#strategic
priorities and
#geostrategic
dimensions of Russia, the United States, the European Union, and NATO in the Russia-Ukraine
#war
.
To access the full study 👇
The
#ACRPS
State and Political Systems Studies Unit and the Politics and International Relations Program, Doha Institute, invite you to a lecture by Steven Heydemann titled “The
#Poverty
Puzzle in the Middle East: The
#Politics
and
#Economics
of Solidarity.”
🗓15 October 2022