MidEastAnthro

A section of the American Anthropological Association. Account managed by a team of volunteers. Links, Likes, & RTs ≠ endorsements

[MidEastAnthro @mes_aaa]

we are hoping to tweet a bit more about new and exciting publications in the anthro of the ME, so if you have published an article, a book, or other creative ME anthro project, DM us or tag us and we can help spread the word!

[MidEastAnthro @mes_aaa]

📢📢 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 2026 MES Book Award

The Middle East Section invites nominations for its annual book award, which recognizes outstanding anthropological scholarship of significance to the field of Middle Eastern Studies. Deadline: May 15.

https://t.co/rEkpOmzVeF

[Chandni Desai @4cdesai]

Postdoctoral fellowship opportunity in Palestine Studies at the University of Toronto for the 2026-2027 academic year. Applications are due April 6. The link for the application instructions are coming soon! Please share and apply.

[MidEastAnthro @mes_aaa]

📢📢 Call for Nominations: 2025 MES Book Award for outstanding anthropological scholarship—single-or co-authored (but not edited volumes)—of significance to the field of Middle Eastern Studies (published in 2023 or 2024) Deadline: May 15. https://t.co/WuES4dzyuj

[Amahl Bishara @AmahlBishara]

Check out @sopgood Sophia Goodfriend's article about how people in Jerusalem navigate digital and state surveillance. An ominous article from which we can learn so much...
https://t.co/4WRn6kBRIt

[MidEastAnthro @mes_aaa]

While we did not intend to spotlight Palestine, it was perhaps no coincidence that Palestine was so present among the winners (#FreePalestine) 👏👏Congratulations to all! And thank you to all who submitted! Read in more detail here: https://t.co/eNxyrcz2pG

[MidEastAnthro @mes_aaa]

🏆Our 2024 MES Photography Prize went to to Shonara Awad @okstate +Hanan Awad, whose series captures the militarization of everyday life in the Israeli-occupied al-Khalil/Hebron for Palestinians, especially poignantly in the case of children trying to get to school #FreePalestine

[MidEastAnthro @mes_aaa]

🏆 We also awarded an honorable mention for the 2024 MES Student Paper prize to Leen Alfatafta @GWtweets for "Motherly Affects," which examines how mothering/hood emerges as a 'relationally dispossessive' in @Imanmersal's *How to Mend: Motherhood and Its Ghosts* 🎉🎊

[MidEastAnthro @mes_aaa]

🏆 The 2024 MES Student Paper Award goes to @ThayerHastings, from @GCcunyAnthro (#FreeCUNY!) for “The Inheritances of Non-Citizenship: Immobility and the Family in the Bir Ona Borderland," about the problem of statelessness & non-citizenship among 🇵🇸residents of Jerusalem. 🎉🎊

[MidEastAnthro @mes_aaa]

we honor Dr. Zaatari for for her generous and visionary service to ME anthro: her institution-building at a time of emergency, her teaching and training of scholars through workshops and public events, and her pathbreaking scholarship on women’s activism in South Lebanon.

[MidEastAnthro @mes_aaa]

🏆 we revamped our distinguished scholar award to a Distinguished Service Prize, to acknowledge the invisible labor that goes into creating community and institutions

and our winner is Zeina Zaatari, Director of the Arab American Cultural Center (@ArabAmCC) @thisisUIC

[MidEastAnthro @mes_aaa]

📢🏆If we didn't post on it here, did it happen? Before 2024 ends in the US, and in the midst of the horrors continuing to unfold in our part our of the world, we want to take a moment to celebrate the Middle East Section's prize winners this year...

[MidEastAnthro @mes_aaa]

@tim_loh

[MidEastAnthro @mes_aaa]

📢⚠️📢 CFP *Instruments of Obligation* @PrincetonAnthro 4-5 April. Deadline 12 Jan

How does an obligation’s meaning shift when it is unmoored from its original context? Ex; Israel’s claim for a “right to defend itself, subcontracted debt, duty of care...
https://t.co/gF6eGU870h

[MidEastAnthro @mes_aaa]

Today 12pm! On zoom

[MidEastAnthro @mes_aaa]

📢🛑 📢please join us!

Fri 13 Dec, 12PM EST/7PM 🇵🇸/🇱🇧 time

** On Rendering Uninhabitable: The War on Palestine and Lebanon and its Environmental Effects**

w/ Ahmed Abu Shaban, Hadeel Assali, Muna Dajani, Omar @jabarysalamanca, Munira Khayyat @mu_kha2

Register: 👇

[SocietyMedAnthro @SocMedAnthro]

tomorrow!

[Amahl Bishara @AmahlBishara]

Please join us on Friday for an urgent seminar on Lebanon, Palestine, and environments of war.

[MidEastAnthro @mes_aaa]

📢 MES president @AmahlBishara and anthropologist Diana Allen of Palestine Oral History Archive coedited a special issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies: **Mediating Palestine: Representation, Mobilization, and Experimentation**

[Institute for Palestine Studies @PalStudies]

📣We have published a special issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies co-edited by @AmahlBishara and Diana Keown Allan. Contributions to this volume address how diverse media forms shape and express Palestinian lifeworlds and politics. 📚🧵https://t.co/IgxqnfFvAv

[Deniz Yonucu @denizyonucu]

Very much looking forward to my next book talk at @Stanford University!

[MidEastAnthro @mes_aaa]

https://t.co/5WvgWWvHhL

[MidEastAnthro @mes_aaa]

📢🛑 📢please join us!

Fri 13 Dec, 12PM EST/7PM 🇵🇸/🇱🇧 time

** On Rendering Uninhabitable: The War on Palestine and Lebanon and its Environmental Effects**

w/ Ahmed Abu Shaban, Hadeel Assali, Muna Dajani, Omar @jabarysalamanca, Munira Khayyat @mu_kha2

Register: 👇