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For the third consecutive year, the ACSS Working Group, the Beirut Critical Security Studies Collective (BCSSC), organized a Summer Institute on Critical Security Studies in the Arab region for junior researchers working on issues of (in)security in the Arab region.

We talk to Tarik Sabry and Joe Khalil, editors of the new collection "Culture, Time and Publics in the Arab World: Media, Public Space and Temporality."

The workshop invites scholars to reflect, on the basis of ethnographic fieldwork, on how critique travels across religious and geographic difference.

The ACSS Working Group, Critiques of Power, organized on December 14-15, 2018 the Forum on Alternative Archival Practices at Antwork, Beirut. Here are some highlights from Day 2 of the event.

The ACSS Working Group, Critiques of Power, organized on December 14-15, 2018 the Forum on Alternative Archival Practices at Antwork, Beirut. Here are some highlights from Day 2 of the event.

The ACSS Working Group, the Beirut Security Studies Collective, organized the 2nd Summer Institute on Critical Security Studies in the Arab Region on June 21-26, 2018 in Broummana, Lebanon. Here are some highlights from event.

The ACSS held its Third Research Forum on April 4-7, 2018 in Amman, Jordan. Here we look back on some of the major moments of the 4-day event, which brings together ACSS grantees, fellows and trustees and selection committee members.

Roundup of open calls focused on the social sciences in the Arab region - January 11, 2018

ننشر في ما يلي مداخلة الدكتورة هدى الصدة حول العنف ضد النساء في العالم العربي والسردية النسوية المناهضة للاستعمار التي قدمتها خلال طاولة مستديرة بعنوان "السرديات النسوية في الواقع العربي بين الاستشراق الحديث والاستغراب المستحدث".

The American Political Science Association (APSA) is pleased to announce a call for proposals from political scientists interested in serving as co-leaders for the 5th annual MENA Workshop program.

In June 2017, the Director-General of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS), Seteney Shami, gave a talk titled "The Social Sciences in the Arab Region: Gaps, Elisions and Glosses" at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest.

Hosted in Durban, South Africa, the World Social Science Forum 2015 took place against the backdrop of multiple transitions that affect global governance, resource utilization, social relations and quality of life leading to increased global inequalities.

The monthly audio journal, Status, featured the keynote plenary from our Second Conference on Questioning Social Inequality and Difference in the Arab Region in its panel section.

Who Are the People? A Conversation on the Assemblages and the Archives of the People

كلمة للدكتور حسن رشيق بعنوان : أدلجة الهويات الإجتماعية

Throughout 2013 António Guterres, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, seemed to be running out of ways to sound the alarm and describe the magnitude of the Syrian refugee crisis. “Syria as a civilization is unraveling,” he declared in early June. Later that month he stated that it was the worst catastrophe since the end of the Cold War. The numbers bear out his claims. By the end of 2013 there were over 2 million registered refugees, several million others internally displaced, and estimates of 10 million in desperate need of food and shelter, out of a total population of around 23 million. An estimated 100,000 have been killed by the fighting and many more wounded and disappeared.

In any American university, what the six researchers in this room are doing would be totally unremarkable: launching a new project to use the tools of social science to solve urgent problems in their home countries. But for the young Arab Council for the Social Sciences, this work is anything but routine. The group’s fall meeting, initially planned for Cairo, was canceled at the last minute when Egyptian state security agents demanded a list of participants and research questions. The group relocated its meeting to Beirut, meaning some researchers couldn’t come because of visa problems. Still others feared traveling to Lebanon during a week when the United States was considering air strikes against neighboring Syria. Ultimately, the team met in an out-of-the-way hotel, with one participant joining via Skype.