Come to the film screening of the 2011 movie A Separation—about marriage, divorce, crime, and regret—directed by Oscar Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi (for The Salesman, 2017). A Separation won the … Continue reading SHARIAsource Film Screening – Study Break :: A Separation
The American University in Cairo invites applications and nominations for the position of Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.  The School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HUSS) is … Continue reading Call for Applications: American University in Cairo: Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences
What is the Fellowship? The Salzburg Global Seminar is an independent non-profit designed to create future leaders. It runs the Lloyd Cutler Fellows Program, which brings together 55 of the … Continue reading Call for Applications: Salzburg Cutler Fellows in International Law
The Institute of lslamic-Theological studies is searching for a University assistant ("post doc"). We are a young team and are offering an excellent working environment, flexible working hours and good … Continue reading Call for Applications: University of Vienna: Postdoc, Islamic Theology
The Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to invite applications for one PhD scholarship in any area within its expertise. The scholarship will be … Continue reading PhD Scholarship in Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh
Event Summary: This symposium focuses on relationship breakdown where there is no state recognised marriage. This may include couples in a religious-only marriage, those whose ceremony was conducted by a non-religious belief organisation, those who are cohabiting, or a range of other relationship types which fall outside of the ambit of a state recognised marriage. … Continue reading UK Family Law Conference: “Relationship Breakdown: Informal and Legal Solutions”
Princeton University seeks a collaborative, service-oriented subject specialist to shape & enrich its top-rated library collections and provide outstanding library services in the interdisciplinary field of Near Eastern Studies. This librarian is a key member of the area studies & humanities team in the Collection Development Department. Responsible for identifying & acquiring materials from & … Continue reading Call for Applications: Princeton University: Near Eastern Studies Librarian
The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (WIGH) at Harvard University identifies and supports outstanding scholars whose work responds to the growing interest in the encompassing study of global history. We seek to organize a community of scholars interested in the systematic scrutiny of developments that have unfolded across national, regional, and continental boundaries and who … Continue reading Harvard Global History Postdoctoral Fellowship
Conference: 11-12 April 2019, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands In Muslim minority contexts, particularly in the UK and Europe, some of the prevalent discourses on religious-only Muslim marriages share an underlying assumption of a homogenous, legally recognised and culturally streamlined form of Muslim marriages found in Muslim majority contexts. However, this depiction does not represent … Continue reading Call for Papers: Muslim Marriages: Plurality of Norms and Practices
We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for our Fourth Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies, hosted by the University of Cambridge at St John's College on 9-10 April 2019. Deadline: 30 December 2018. We welcome proposals that engage with any aspect of Iranian studies within the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Subjects include … Continue reading Call for Papers: Symposia Iranica
