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Catastrophe, Memory & Critique - Jens Hanssen (DFG funded conference; current book project)
Decolonization, Cold War and the Rise of Authoritarianism in the Middle East – Carol Hakim
A Literary History of Arab Futures: Enlightenment, Ruins, and Dystopia – Zeina Halabi
From Copying to Burning the Qur’an: Creating Models & Transposing Sacrality – Alya Karame
Critical Theory from the Global South: New Perspectives from Beirut – Sami Khatib
Abrahamic Interdependence - Relationship of the Islamic to the Jewish in Marital Law – Ahmed M. F. Abd-Elsalam
Lebanon’s Art World at Home and Abroad: Trajectories of artists and artworks in/from Lebanon since 1943 (LAWHA) – Nadia von Maltzahn (PI, ERC funded project)
The ABC of Abū Bakr al-Shanawānī (d. 1610). Arabic letter semiotics on the threshold of modern times – Berenike Metzler (DFG funded project)
Kant and the Non-European: Critique, Justice and Freedom (Lecture series and panel discussions, in collaboration with AUB)
Global Weimar – Global Nahda (In collaboration with Princeton University)
The Japanese Red Army in Lebanon: Solidarity, Militancy, and Transregional Connectivity – Claudia Derichs
Previous projects
Escape to Europe: Comparative Refugee Imaginaries - Markus Schmitz
Living in Limbo - Sarah El Bulbeisi
BALANCE AS JUSTICE: DECONSTRUCTION OF PREMODERN ETHICS ON THE BASIS OF ḲINĀLĪZĀDE ꜤALĪ ÇELEBĪ’S AKHLĀḲ-I ꜤALĀ’Ī - FATIH ERMIŞ
The New Testament quotations in Ibrahim al-Biqāʿīs (st. 1480) commentary on the Koran - Thomas Würtz
From Arabic to Latin: Moving sciences of music around the Mediterranean - Rosy Azar Beyhom
Women and religion in post-conflict societies - Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink
Discourses on Statehood in Iraq - Christian Thuselt
Cultural Policies in Lebanon: Cultural Institutions between State and Society (Nadia von Maltzahn)
Fictio Statis (Pierre France)
The Lebanese Intifada of October 17: Perspectives from Within (Birgit Schäbler)
Relations in the Ideoscape: Middle Eastern Students in the Eastern Bloc (1950's to 1991) (Birgit Schäbler)
Europe and the Middle East (Birgit Schäbler)
Picturing the (Un)Dead: Reflections and Deconstructions of Lebanese and Iranian "Martyrs" in Contemporary Photo-Related Art-Practices (Agnes Remeder)
Hierarchical Rationality of Religious Beliefs System in Islamic and Christian Theology (Qodratullah Qorbani)
The inimitability of the Qur’ān (i‘jāz al-qur’ān) in transconfessional contexts of the early ῾Abbāsid period (Hans-Peter Pökel)
Cultural Mobilities and Political Spaces (Christopher Bahl)
Al-Qadi al-Fadil (Stefan Leder)
Bedouin Syria (Johann Büssow)
Borrowing and lending (Jonathan Kriener, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Clergy and conflict management (Thomas Scheffler)
Higher Education and Citizenship in Egypt (Daniele Cantini)
History Writing at Lebanese Universities (Jonathan Kriener)
Knowledge in postgraduate studies (Daniele Cantini)
Mamâlik – Spatial Dynamics of Islamic Polities (Kurt Franz)
Media culture transformation (Hanan Badr)
Museums in Dialogue with the Future (Felicia Meynersen)
Political slogans (Nader Srage)
Political thought (Stefan Leder)
Rural societies in an age of urbanisation (Astrid Meier)
S.C.R.I.P.T. - Source Companion for the Research on Islamic Political Thought (Stefan Leder)
Talking about art – aesthetic reflection in Egypt and Lebanon (Monique Bellan)
Tracing an author’s library (Torsten Wollina)
A Literal World: Perceiving the World as a Linguistic Construction before the Emergence of the Metaphor in Arabo-Islamic Thought (Abdallah Soufan)
Open Arabic Periodical Editions (OpenArabicPE) (Till Grallert)
“Women on the streets!: a genealogy of food riots in the Middle East between the 18th and 20th centuries“ (Till Grallert)
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CfA: Aesthetic Pleasure and Eclectic Delight: Arabic Literature and Arts Beyond Canonical Duty, AGYA International Bilingual Summer School | University of Malta, 29-31 October 2026 | Deadline: 10 July 2026
CfP: Studying the Provenance of Written Artefacts: Methods, Ethics, and Law | Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), University of Hamburg | Deadline: 31st of July 2026. Conference dates: 14-16 April 2027
Workshop Series – Open Call for Participants: Mapping “Mental Health” and Care Practices in Lebanon, Palestine and Syria. IFPO | Deadline: 05.07.2026
Research Fellow | The Centre Marc Bloch | Application deadline: 31 May 2026
Two Fully Funded PhD Positions (3 Years) | Université de Lille; REPOLIJIS – Rethinking Modern Politics through Jewish and Islamic Sources | Deadline: May 15, 2026
CfA: The Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies (CEDEJ) in Cairo is pleased to announce its fellowship program for the academic year 2026-2027
CfA - Deadline: 15 May 2026: Confronting Musical Diversity in Western and Central Eurasian Empires during the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Max Weber Stiftung – Georgia Branch Office | Tbilisi, 24–25 September 2026
DAAD Ausschreibungen: Projekte zur Anbahnung von Hochschulkooperationen mit Syrien
Call for Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Palestine Studies
Call for Applications: The new Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Rohstoffwelten – Kulturen im Umbruch" now accepts applications for fellowships!
Call for Papers | DAVO: The OIB is encouraging present and past fellows and all alumni to consider submitting paper- and panel-proposals for the next Annual DAVO Congress in Munich, September 10.-12.2026
Call for Applications: Summer School on reading and analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources, 13-17 September 2026, Amman. Deadline: March 15, 2026
The DFG would like to draw attention to the current call for applications from The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and the DFG
Call for Papers for a Workshop: “Demarcating Literary Genres in Premodern Arabic Literature. Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Question of Fictionality” June 3–5, 2026
Die Botschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Damaskus sucht zu Anfang Mai 2026 eine/n Übersetzer/in und Dolmetscher/in im Sprachendienst (m/w/d)
Summer School: Critique and Emancipation
Call for applications by The Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) – Deadline: February 12, 2026 – Small Grants Program on the theme of “Constantine Zurayk: Nation, Identity, and History: Towards New Agendas.”
Call for applications: The Cochrane Research Fellowship at the Chester Beatty Library. Deadline: 13 February 2026
Call for papers for an upcoming Sourcebook titled “The Global Archives of Mobility and Identity in the Ottoman Twilight”
Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026-27
Call for Applications: Doctoral Fellowships 2026-27
Das OIB sucht zum 1. September 2026 einen wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter (w/m/d) in der Islamwissenschaft
MECAM Call for Application – Individual Fellowships (2026-2027) for Postdoctoral and Advanced Scholars - “Imagining Futures: Dealing with Disparity”. Deadline: 02.03.2026
Riwaq Prize for Research and Culture
Call for papers for a conference “Arts and Crafts in the Late Ottoman Empire: Rethinking Practices and Concepts of Material Culture in Syria and Beyond (18th - early 20th c.)”
Call for applications: Up to five Postdoc Positions in Cluster of Excellence “Transforming Human Rights”, based at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Call for applications for a postdoctoral position – Sorbonne Université – to conduct research on the tangible heritage of a region in the Middle East, Deadline 14 November 2025
Call for Contributions: The Review of Middle East Studies (RoMES) invites contributions to an upcoming special issue on Digital Humanities in Middle East Studies
Call for Papers: Constitutionalism and Religious Identity in the Middle East: Historical and Transnational Perspectives
Call for applications, ACSS Fellowship | SCG Cycle 2
Call for Two Post-Doctoral Fellowship Applications: "Islamic Studies after Gaza" and "Interdisciplinarity and Experimental Methods in Islamic Studies"
Call For Papers – The Middle East and the Making of Global Anti-imperialism: Histories of the Twentieth Century
Call for Applications – Associate Professor or Professor – Palestinian Literature and Culture
Call for applications – Fellowship in the History of Visual Culture in the Ottoman Empire: The Celsing Collection
Call for papers: The Arab Graduate Students Conference (AGSC), organized by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS), has been extended to 30 October 2025
Call for Papers – The Many Worlds of Ahmad Shawqi: Poetry, Drama, and Cultural Legacy. American University of Beirut – May 2026 (Dates TBA)
The graduate programme "Post-Eurocentric Europe. Narratives of a World Province in Transformation" at the University of Konstanz calls for applications for a doctoral position. Deadline: 20.09.2025
Call for Early-Career Fellows of the Vienna Center for Advanced Studies (ViCAS)
The ERC project KNOW: Polymathy and Interdisciplinarity in Premodern Islamic Epistemic Cultures (1200–1800) invites proposals for its first international workshop
Call for papers – Aid Networks and Mechanisms in a Migratory Context: Europe and the Middle East (1945-1970) – Deadline: 30 June 2025
Call for applications for a fully funded PhD fellowship at Ghent University
الذكرى المئوية للثورة السورية الكبرى (١٩٢٥-٢٠٢٥) في Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme (MMSH), Aix-en-Provence
Call for Papers: The Making of the Lebanese Working Class, Historical Materialism, London Conference, November 2025
A workshop on editing Arabic texts in manuscripts organised by Farouk Jabre Center for Arabic & Islamic Science & Philosophy
Call for applications for the international Senior Fellowship Programme of the College for Social Sciences and Humanities, an Institute for Advanced Study based in Essen (Germany) that is part of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)
Junior social scientists working on MENA region – deadline: 4 May 2025
Associate Senior Lecturer in History (Middle Eastern) – Lund University
CALL FOR PAPERS for the Symposium ARAB-GERMAN RELATIONS IN THE MIRROR OF HISTORY
استكتاب للمشاركة في ندوة العلاقات العربية-الألمانية في مرآة التاريخ
Call for papers: Diasporas, Exiles, Migrants, and Refugees from Europe in the Middle East and North Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries. A workshop held on July 8-10, 2025, at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany
IEG Fellowship - The Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz call for applications for one fellowship starting in September 2025. Application Deadline: April 14, 2025
Faculty vacancy announcement – The City University of New York Faculty Open Rank - Open Rank, Palestinian Studies Cluster Hire/ Art & Humanities
Call for Proposals for a conference on the Lebanese Civil War on the 50th anniversary of its outbreak
B2B - Call for Papers - Orient-Institut Istanbul
Call for submissions: Palestine Studies, German Studies: Special issue of The German Quarterly
Call for Applications: Why Location Matters: Research in the Arab World | دعوة إلى تقديم الطلبات: أهمّية مواقع الأبحاث في العالم العربي
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Call for applications: MECAM Fellowship Programme 2025-2026
Call for applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity for Researchers (f/m/d) From Palestine and Lebanon
Call for applications: Khaled al-Asaad Solidarity Funds for researchers in danger
Call for Papers International and Interdisciplinary Conference: "Philosophy and Poetry in Islamic Contexts"
Call for applications: PhD position at the ERC-KNOW
Call for applications: Postdoc position at the ERC-KNOW
Call for the Winter School "Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources,” March 17-21, 2025, Rethymno, Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH, deadline December 15, 2024
MECAM Traveling Academy for 2024-2025
Link zum Call for Sessions (in englischer und deutscher Sprache)
ACSS-FMSH Short-Term Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship Program in the Social Sciences and Humanities, deadline: Dec 09, 2024
Call for applications: Scholarship for Lebanon and Turkey-based researchers for the project "Removal Infrastructures for Syrians in Lebanon and Turkey," deadline: 19/06/2024
Call for applications: 12 Doctoral Positions at the graduate program "Post-Eurocentric Europe: Narratives of a World Province in Transformation” at the Department of Literature, Art and Media studies of the University of Konstanz, deadline: 30/06/2024
Resident scholar program for Lebanon-based and Lebanese scholars at the Finnish Institute in the Middle East
Marie Curie Fellowships
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Workshop Series – Open Call for Participants: Mapping “Mental Health” and Care Practices in Lebanon, Palestine and Syria. IFPO | Deadline: 05.07.2026
Workshop Series – Open Call for Participants: Mapping “Mental Health” and Care Practices in Lebanon, Palestine and Syria. IFPO | Deadline: 05.07.2026
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Calls & Grants
CfA: Aesthetic Pleasure and Eclectic Delight: Arabic Literature and Arts Beyond Canonical Duty, AGYA International Bilingual Summer School | University of Malta, 29-31 October 2026 | Deadline: 10 July 2026
CfP: Studying the Provenance of Written Artefacts: Methods, Ethics, and Law | Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), University of Hamburg | Deadline: 31st of July 2026. Conference dates: 14-16 April 2027
Workshop Series – Open Call for Participants: Mapping “Mental Health” and Care Practices in Lebanon, Palestine and Syria. IFPO | Deadline: 05.07.2026
Research Fellow | The Centre Marc Bloch | Application deadline: 31 May 2026
Two Fully Funded PhD Positions (3 Years) | Université de Lille; REPOLIJIS – Rethinking Modern Politics through Jewish and Islamic Sources | Deadline: May 15, 2026
CfA: The Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies (CEDEJ) in Cairo is pleased to announce its fellowship program for the academic year 2026-2027
CfA - Deadline: 15 May 2026: Confronting Musical Diversity in Western and Central Eurasian Empires during the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Max Weber Stiftung – Georgia Branch Office | Tbilisi, 24–25 September 2026
DAAD Ausschreibungen: Projekte zur Anbahnung von Hochschulkooperationen mit Syrien
Call for Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Palestine Studies
Call for Applications: The new Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Rohstoffwelten – Kulturen im Umbruch" now accepts applications for fellowships!
Call for Papers | DAVO: The OIB is encouraging present and past fellows and all alumni to consider submitting paper- and panel-proposals for the next Annual DAVO Congress in Munich, September 10.-12.2026
Call for Applications: Summer School on reading and analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources, 13-17 September 2026, Amman. Deadline: March 15, 2026
The DFG would like to draw attention to the current call for applications from The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and the DFG
Call for Papers for a Workshop: “Demarcating Literary Genres in Premodern Arabic Literature. Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Question of Fictionality” June 3–5, 2026
Die Botschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Damaskus sucht zu Anfang Mai 2026 eine/n Übersetzer/in und Dolmetscher/in im Sprachendienst (m/w/d)
Summer School: Critique and Emancipation
Call for applications by The Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) – Deadline: February 12, 2026 – Small Grants Program on the theme of “Constantine Zurayk: Nation, Identity, and History: Towards New Agendas.”
Call for applications: The Cochrane Research Fellowship at the Chester Beatty Library. Deadline: 13 February 2026
Call for papers for an upcoming Sourcebook titled “The Global Archives of Mobility and Identity in the Ottoman Twilight”
Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026-27
Call for Applications: Doctoral Fellowships 2026-27
Das OIB sucht zum 1. September 2026 einen wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter (w/m/d) in der Islamwissenschaft
MECAM Call for Application – Individual Fellowships (2026-2027) for Postdoctoral and Advanced Scholars - “Imagining Futures: Dealing with Disparity”. Deadline: 02.03.2026
Riwaq Prize for Research and Culture
Call for papers for a conference “Arts and Crafts in the Late Ottoman Empire: Rethinking Practices and Concepts of Material Culture in Syria and Beyond (18th - early 20th c.)”
Call for applications: Up to five Postdoc Positions in Cluster of Excellence “Transforming Human Rights”, based at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Call for applications for a postdoctoral position – Sorbonne Université – to conduct research on the tangible heritage of a region in the Middle East, Deadline 14 November 2025
Call for Contributions: The Review of Middle East Studies (RoMES) invites contributions to an upcoming special issue on Digital Humanities in Middle East Studies
Call for Papers: Constitutionalism and Religious Identity in the Middle East: Historical and Transnational Perspectives
Call for applications, ACSS Fellowship | SCG Cycle 2
Call for Two Post-Doctoral Fellowship Applications: "Islamic Studies after Gaza" and "Interdisciplinarity and Experimental Methods in Islamic Studies"
Call For Papers – The Middle East and the Making of Global Anti-imperialism: Histories of the Twentieth Century
Call for Applications – Associate Professor or Professor – Palestinian Literature and Culture
Call for applications – Fellowship in the History of Visual Culture in the Ottoman Empire: The Celsing Collection
Call for papers: The Arab Graduate Students Conference (AGSC), organized by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS), has been extended to 30 October 2025
Call for Papers – The Many Worlds of Ahmad Shawqi: Poetry, Drama, and Cultural Legacy. American University of Beirut – May 2026 (Dates TBA)
The graduate programme "Post-Eurocentric Europe. Narratives of a World Province in Transformation" at the University of Konstanz calls for applications for a doctoral position. Deadline: 20.09.2025
Call for Early-Career Fellows of the Vienna Center for Advanced Studies (ViCAS)
The ERC project KNOW: Polymathy and Interdisciplinarity in Premodern Islamic Epistemic Cultures (1200–1800) invites proposals for its first international workshop
Call for papers – Aid Networks and Mechanisms in a Migratory Context: Europe and the Middle East (1945-1970) – Deadline: 30 June 2025
Call for applications for a fully funded PhD fellowship at Ghent University
الذكرى المئوية للثورة السورية الكبرى (١٩٢٥-٢٠٢٥) في Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme (MMSH), Aix-en-Provence
Call for Papers: The Making of the Lebanese Working Class, Historical Materialism, London Conference, November 2025
A workshop on editing Arabic texts in manuscripts organised by Farouk Jabre Center for Arabic & Islamic Science & Philosophy
Call for applications for the international Senior Fellowship Programme of the College for Social Sciences and Humanities, an Institute for Advanced Study based in Essen (Germany) that is part of the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr)
Junior social scientists working on MENA region – deadline: 4 May 2025
Associate Senior Lecturer in History (Middle Eastern) – Lund University
CALL FOR PAPERS for the Symposium ARAB-GERMAN RELATIONS IN THE MIRROR OF HISTORY
استكتاب للمشاركة في ندوة العلاقات العربية-الألمانية في مرآة التاريخ
Call for papers: Diasporas, Exiles, Migrants, and Refugees from Europe in the Middle East and North Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries. A workshop held on July 8-10, 2025, at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany
IEG Fellowship - The Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz call for applications for one fellowship starting in September 2025. Application Deadline: April 14, 2025
Faculty vacancy announcement – The City University of New York Faculty Open Rank - Open Rank, Palestinian Studies Cluster Hire/ Art & Humanities
Call for Proposals for a conference on the Lebanese Civil War on the 50th anniversary of its outbreak
B2B - Call for Papers - Orient-Institut Istanbul
Call for submissions: Palestine Studies, German Studies: Special issue of The German Quarterly
Call for Applications: Why Location Matters: Research in the Arab World | دعوة إلى تقديم الطلبات: أهمّية مواقع الأبحاث في العالم العربي
Stellvertretender Direktor(in)
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter(in) (German version)
Research Associate positions
Bibliotheksleiter(in)
MESA/ACSS/OIB Call for applications
Call for applications: MECAM Fellowship Programme 2025-2026
Call for applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity for Researchers (f/m/d) From Palestine and Lebanon
Call for applications: Khaled al-Asaad Solidarity Funds for researchers in danger
Call for Papers International and Interdisciplinary Conference: "Philosophy and Poetry in Islamic Contexts"
Call for applications: PhD position at the ERC-KNOW
Call for applications: Postdoc position at the ERC-KNOW
Call for the Winter School "Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources,” March 17-21, 2025, Rethymno, Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH, deadline December 15, 2024
MECAM Traveling Academy for 2024-2025
Link zum Call for Sessions (in englischer und deutscher Sprache)
ACSS-FMSH Short-Term Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship Program in the Social Sciences and Humanities, deadline: Dec 09, 2024
Call for applications: Scholarship for Lebanon and Turkey-based researchers for the project "Removal Infrastructures for Syrians in Lebanon and Turkey," deadline: 19/06/2024
Call for applications: 12 Doctoral Positions at the graduate program "Post-Eurocentric Europe: Narratives of a World Province in Transformation” at the Department of Literature, Art and Media studies of the University of Konstanz, deadline: 30/06/2024
Resident scholar program for Lebanon-based and Lebanese scholars at the Finnish Institute in the Middle East
Marie Curie Fellowships
ACSS Early Career Fellowships
Gerald D. Feldman travel grants
Vacancies
Praktika/Internships
Academic Visitors
Affiliated Researchers
Fellows-at-large
Journalists-in-Residence
Hans Robert Roemer Fellow
Guest Rooms
