News and Updates
Registration Open Soon – Decades of the Republic in Afghanistan – Free Online Seminar Spring 2022
Hosted on Zoom – Register for link March 15 – May 17, 2022 9:00am-10:30am Eastern Time Afghanistan has been at the epicenter of regional and global politics for nearly half a century. After decades of peace and stability, it experienced…Continue reading→
“FROM KABUL TO CAMPUS: AFGHAN STUDENTS RETRACE THEIR HARROWING JOURNEY TO AMERICA”
Published by News@Northeastern on February 4, 2022 By Peter Jamrug Northeastern is currently hosting Afghan refugees Lala Osmani, Mashal Aziz, Khadija Arian and Sara Sherindil, all of whom first met as finance and accounting majors at the American University in…Continue reading→
New Article: “Manufacturing the AKP in Turkey”
January 31, 2022 Published by the Middle East Research and Information Project on January 25, 2022. By: Utku Balaban, associate professor of anthropology and sociology at Amherst College. He is a MESA Global Academy Fellow for the academic years 2020–2021 and…Continue reading→
“Forced to flee Kabul last August, 15 young Afghan women find an academic home at Brown”
Published by News from Brown on January 27, 2022 By Jill Kimball Brown is hosting a cohort of students from the Asian University for Women and Ghalib University, all of whom left Afghanistan abruptly in the wake of the Taliban’s…Continue reading→
Apply for the Academy in Exile’s Artist in Residence Program: Fixing What’s Broken
Application deadline December 12, 2021 The Academy in Exile invites applications for its 2021-2022 artist in residence program. The 3-month fellowship will award three fellows the opportunity to be part of the Academy in Exile’s Critical Thinking Program at Freie Universität…Continue reading→
International Studies Association (ISA) Academic Freedom Committee Panel Discussion, Dec 2, 2021
Register Here Join the ISA Academic Freedom Committee Discussion: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Academic Freedom: Challenges and Prospects on Thursday, December 2nd at 11:00 am ET for a presentation by University in Exile Scholar, Nazan Bedirhanoglu, a Freedom Project Post-Doctoral fellow in Political…Continue reading→
Register Today! Middle East Studies Association 55th Annual Meeting, Nov. 29 – Dec. 3, 2021
Register for MESA 2021 The 55th MESA Annual Meeting will be held virtually from November 29 – December 3, 2021 The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) promotes academic scholarships, cultural understanding, and teachings in the field of Middle Eastern studies….Continue reading→
Register today – Osman Kavala to receive the 2021 Courage in Public Scholarship Award, Dec. 10
Virtual Award Ceremony will be held on Friday, December 10, 2021, 12:00PM to 1:30PM (EST) Osman Kavala, a Turkish publisher, and philanthropist, has been awarded the Courage in Public Scholarship Award by the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies’ (TCDS), The New School for Social Research. For four…Continue reading→
Hosting Afghan Students and Scholars: A Resource Kit by ACE, IIE & APLU
The American Council on Education (ACE), the Institute of International Education (IIE), the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), and the Association of American Universities (AAU) designed a resource kit that provides critical information needed by U.S. colleges and…Continue reading→