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Our 2024 round of awards is now open! All are for graduate students. More information on the Gwenn Okruhlik Dissertation Award, the Graduate Paper Prize, and the Student Travel Award can be found in the thread below and at agaps.org/agaps-awards/a…

AGAPS is proud to announce a call for applications to its 2026 graduate student workshop, to take place on the weekend of July 25-26 via Zoom. Applications for the workshop are due on 27 March 2026. Details below!

Empowering Muslim Women in Scientific Research Webinar Series: "Gender Attitudes and Trends over the Last Decade" with @AmaneyJamal. Wednesday, January 28, 2026 | 5:00 – 6:30 PM (UAE) | 1:00 – 2:30 PM (UK) agaps.org/gender-attitud…

The latest webinar from the series: "Empowering Muslim Women in Scientific Research." Organized by the Universities of Sharjah & Manchester. For more information, please visit: eventbrite.com/e/saudi-women-…

We're excited to announce that @Ahmed_Yaqoub is the winner of the 2025 AGAPS Gwenn Okruhlik Dissertation Award for "An Enchanted Sea." Honorable mention goes to Gabriel Young for "State, Land, and Labor in the Making of an Iraqi Periphery." Congratulations!

We're excited to announce that @Crystal_Ennis is the winner of the 2025 AGAPS Biennial Book Award for "Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies." Honorable mention goes to Arang Keshavarzian for "Making Space for the Gulf." Congratulations!

I’m honored to be the first Emirati to win the Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies @AgapsOrg 2025 Gwenn Okruhlik Dissertation Award! Huge thanks to the committee, to friends and colleagues, and to everyone who powered “Enchanted Sea” into being!

Another issue of the Journal of Arabian Studies is out, another round of thanks is in order. I thank everyone who contributed book reviews to vol. 15, no. 1. They are @DrAishaAlSarihi, @brianjulrich, @CjvHenderson, Luc Chantre, @Blanc_Theo and others tandfonline.com/toc/rjab20/15/1

AGAPS is proud to present three films at the MESA Filmfest - details below!

AGAPS has sponsored three panels at this year's annual MESA meeting. Check them out if you are in DC!

If you are attending MESA this weekend, please attend the AGAPS business meeting on Saturday (tomorrow) at 1pm ET in Meeting Room 3!

Call for applications: NYU Abu Dhabi Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World apply.interfolio.com/160447

The University of Manchester and the University of Sharjah are hosting "Islamic Feminism: Hermeneutics and Activism" on Wednesday, November 26 with Dr. Mulki Al-Sharmani. Register to attend below! eventbrite.com/e/islamic-femi…

Transregional Middle Easts - a new book series from the U of Utah Press and the U of Utah’s Middle East Center - is accepting proposals for monographs and edited volumes, as well as annotated translations, anthologies, and other creative projects. More: uofupress.com/series/transre….

Call for papers: The Gulf Studies Center's 10th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference -- “Bridging Tradition and Progress:  Social Transformation Trends in the GCC States.” Apply by 20 June! qu.edu.qa/en-us/research…

@QUGulfStudies also offers a range of scholarships for both local and international studies. For more information, visit qu.edu.qa/en-us/students….

@QUGulfStudies is hiring! information about openings can be found here: careers.qu.edu.qa. - Associate Professor of Gulf Studies - Associate Professor of Economics in the Gulf - Full/Associate Research Professor in Gulf Politics - Associate Professor of Modern Gulf History

Last, we are sponsoring 14 films from the region at this year's MESA Film Fest. Registered conference attendees will be able to stream these films and others through the MESA website. 4/

We are proud to sponsor three panels this year: 3/

If you are attending @MESA_1966 next week, please check out several exciting AGAPS events that we have planned for you at this year's conference! 1/