#OnlineEvent | 'Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize Showcase & Careers Conversation' 🗓️8 Dec, 15:00-16.30 (GMT) Join BRISMES in celebrating this year’s Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize winners for the best PhDs on the Middle East. More info and registration: bit.ly/LDMP_Event

#Employment The NYU Abu Dhabi Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World (HRF) invites applications for a residential postdoctoral fellowship with a research specialization in the Arab World. mesana.org/resources-an...

#Employment The History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for a nine-month tenure-system appointment, at the rank of Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East. mesana.org/resources-an...

OUR November bit.ly/PJ_Nov25 is on the latest Arab Studies Quarterly (Vol 47, Iss 4) with articles on Arabic history & society, West Bank resistance to Israeli occupation, national emotions & songs before Egypt’s 2011 revolution & the early life of a Palestinian refugee. Read all diamond #OpenAccess

OUR November bit.ly/PJ_Nov2025 news serves up plenty of food for thought, with new articles from World Review of Political Economy & Arab Studies Quarterly, as well as the latest news from our African Journals Initiative Read Diamond Open Access on @scienceopen.bsky.social & @jstor.bsky.social

Within the latest from Arab Studies Quarterly 47.3 read “American Aid to Israel: Nature and Impact 1949–2024”scienceopen.com/hosted-documen… by Dr Abed-Rabbo. It is diamond #OpenAccess and free to read on @scienceopen.bsky.social and @jstor.bsky.social

Within the latest from Arab Studies Quarterly 47.3 read “American Aid to Israel: Nature and Impact 1949–2024”scienceopen.com/hosted-documen… by Dr Abed-Rabbo. It is diamond #OpenAccess and free to read on @scienceopen.bsky.social and @jstor.bsky.social

Within the latest ASQ 47.3 read Necropolitics and Neo-Orientalism: Theory and Practice www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... on how a nation, or a group of people, uses power, both military or political, to dictate how certain people in a region can live and how some must die. @scienceopen.bsky.social

Read the latest from Arab Studies Quarterly 47.3 scienceopen.com/journal-issue?… three articles: Autobiography: Affect, Critique, and Modernity, Necropolitics and Neo-Orientalism & American Aid to Israel on @scienceopen.bsky.social @ @jstor.bsky.social

Within the latest #diamondOpenAccess Arab Studies Quarterly 47.2 read “The Legal Effects of the Maritime Border Demarcation Agreement on the Lebanese State” by authors Mohamad Mokdad & Omar Abou Taha www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... @scienceopen.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social

This #prize was established in memory of Dr Leigh Douglas who was killed in Beirut in 1986 and is awarded to the best #PhD dissertation on a #MiddleEastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British University in the previous year. (2/3)

🎉A huge congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize: - Joint Winners: Asma Abdi and Sara Abdel Ghany - Joint Runners Up: Eirik Kvindesland and Kristine Sheets Read more: brismes.ac.uk/awards/ldmp (1/3)

Within the latest #diamondOpenAccess Arab Studies Quarterly 47.2 read “Refaat Alareer’s “If I Must Die”: The Death of the Author, the Afterlife of the Tale” by authors Asma Hussein here on @scienceopen.bsky.social & @jstor.bsky.social www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... @brismes.bsky.social

@brismes.bsky.social has published a statement on escalating regional violence in the #MiddleEast. BRISMES expresses its deep alarm at Israel’s recent military aggression against Iran. Read the statement in full: bit.ly/4l0pQB6

In Arab Studies Quarterly 47.2 read ““ Usṭūrat Al-Jabal”: The Politics of Space in Hussein Barghouti’s Among the Almond Trees” by Abd El Latif et al. It’s Diamond #OpenAccess on @jstor.bsky.social & @scienceopen.bsky.social here www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum....

Within the latest Arab Studies Quarterly 47.2 read the poem “Even” by author Sher Chandley here scienceopen.com/hosted-documen… diamon#OpenAccessss on @scienceopen.bsky.social and @jstor.bsky.social. ASQ was established in 1979 by the late Professors Edward Said and Ibrahim Abu-Lughod.

We’re excited to read Arab Studies Quarterly 47.2 here bit.ly/ASQ47_2 with a range of articles and book reviews on Arabic culture, history and institutions. This issue spans art, society and #HumanRights. Subscribe for ASQ news bit.ly/ASQJournalNews @jstor.bsky.social @scienceopen.bsky.social

OUR JUNE NEWS IS HERE bit.ly/PJ_June25. Explore latest issue articles on ethical consumerism and degrowth, resilience in Zambia & Indonesia, Arab Studies, Palestine justice, Lebanon borders & our first African Journals Initiative issue! @journalfairtrade.bsky.social @arabstudiesqtly.bsky.social

Within the latest ASQ 47.4 read “No More Separation between Zion and Her Children”: Palestine as a Sacred Geography & the Roots of the Gaza Genocide by Adam A.H Yaghi diamond # OpenAccess www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... on @scienceopen.bsky.social & @jstor.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social

Within the latest ASQ 47.4 read “No More Separation between Zion and Her Children”: Palestine as a Sacred Geography and the Roots of the Gaza Genocide by Adam A.H Yaghi here diamond # OpenAccess here www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... on @scienceopen.bsky.social and @jstor.bsky.social

Signup to Pluto Journals news bit.ly/PJNews_subscribe to explore the latest diamond #OpenAccess social science issues & articles from our 20 radical publications on @scienceopen.bsky.social and @jstor.bsky.social @jisc.bsky.social

Read the latest Arab Studies Quarterly Winter Vol 47, Iss 1 including an opening piece In Memoriam: Tareq Y. Ismael, two articles, an essay by the Editor and two poems about Gaza. It also includes book reviews, and the Books in Brief section. www.scienceopen.com/collection/5...

Read author Joni Aasi’s article on the natural and built environment being the “silent victim” of Israel’s unprecedented bombardment of the Gaza Strip which caused more than 100,000 casualties and the forced displacement of most of Gaza’s 2.3 million inhabitants. www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

The latest Arab Studies Quarterly Vol 47, Iss 1 includes an opening piece In Memoriam: Tareq Y. Ismael, two articles, an essay by the Editor & two poems about Gaza. It also includes book reviews, and a Books in Brief section. mailchi.mp/aafaf6daca7b... @scienceopen.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social

OUR DECEMBER NEWS bit.ly/PJDec24 brings an eclectic range of articles from whistle blowing in medicine, humour in economics to politicisation of football in Darjeeling! Our entire Pluto Journals Collection, and archive, is #DiamondOA and free to read on @scienceopen.bsky.social & @jstor.bsky.social

Read “Ghassan Kanafani and the Urgent Questions of our Day” where Khaled Barakat discusses how Kanafani’s work and revolutionary political thoughts were relevant 50 years ago and are, perhaps, more relevant than ever. www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... #OpenAccess

Our news bit.ly/PJNov24 brings the latest @reorient.bsky.social ReOrient Volume 9, Issue 1 special issue on The Qur’an and the Humanities & the significance of a purposefully multidisciplinary examination of the Qur’an & its myriad dimensions. #openaccess @scienceopen.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social

Within our Special Double edition latest Volume 46 Issue 3-4, #Kanafani read “Conversation between the Sword and the Neck” by Nathan Mcilroy, musician, poet and lyricist based in Manchester, #OpenAccess www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... @scienceopen.bsky.social & @jstor.bsky.social

Within our latest Special double issue Arab Studies Quarterly Vol 46, Iss 3-4 read “Reflections on the Early Works of Ghassan Kanafani” by Author Louis Brehony, Amira Silmi, Ramzy Baroud, Romana Rubeo & Malek Abisaab scienceopen.com/hosted-docum.... All articles are #diamondOA

Our collection of journals contains titles focused on Islamophobia & its multiple manifestations in our contemporary moment. www.islamophobia-awareness.org. Islamophobia Awareness Month #IAM is a month-long campaign founded by a group of Muslim organisations and is held every November

We’re excited to share our Special Double edition latest issue scienceopen.com/journal-issu... on the role #Kanafani and his political texts. This crucial theme is addressed within this recently published book by @plutopress.bsky.social

Ghassan Kanafani and the Leninist Warriors of Palestine, by Brehony, charts the influence of Leninism among a key group of Palestinian revolutionaries while exploring publications where Kanafani played a leading editorial role, including al-Hadaf newspaper scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

Amongst articles within the latest Arab Studies Quarterly is the Ghassan Kanafani’s Funeral Photo by Robert Azzi. Read all #diamondOA on @scienceopen.bsky.social and @jstor.bsky.social

Read The Arms of Shadow, by Sher Chandley, dedicated to Ghassan Kanafani, Palestinian revolutionary, intellectual, artist and literary figure assassinated by the Israeli Mossad in a car bomb in 1972. #DiamondOA @scienceopen.bsky.social and @jstor.bsky.social scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

@arabstudiesqtly.bsky.social Editor Ibrahim Aoudé’s opening essay is on martyr Ghassan Kanafani, novelist, short story writer, artist, poet, essayist, PFLP editor & revolutionary, as a lead figure in depicting Palestinian lives in the diaspora. Read scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...

We are excited to announce the publication of the Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) Volume 46 Issue 3 & 4 for Summer & Fall 2024 Special Double Issue on Martyr Ghassan Kanafani's contribution to the Palestinian struggle for national liberation. www.scienceopen.com/journal-issu... Read free #DiamondOA

Pluto Journals reported the Top 2023 articles across its 20 radical, social science titles. At No.4 is Louis Brehony’s Arab Studies Quarterly article Exile Songwriters of the Palestinian Revolution (and the problem with Sugar Man) www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum....

Since June 2022 Abed-Rabbo’s, ASQ Vol 46 Iss 1, article “Herzl’s Zionism and Settler Colonialism in Palestine” has had the 2nd highest ASQ reader statistics with 4100 views. Read on @scienceopen.bsky.social & @jstor.bsky.social for free, diamond #OpenAccess, bit.ly/ASQ46_1AbedR... #islamicstudies