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Mailing Address:
ASMEA
P.O. Box 33699
Washington, DC 20033 USA
Phone:
(202) 429-8860
Email:
info@asmeascholars.org
Welcome to ASMEA
ASMEA is a new academic society dedicated to promoting the highest standards of research and teaching in Middle Eastern and African studies, and related fields. It is a response to the mounting interest in these increasingly inter-related fields, and the absence of any single group addressing them in a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary fashion.
ASMEA is, first and foremost, a community of scholars concerned to protect academic freedom and promote the search for truth to reach new heights in inquiry. The Association will advance the discourse in these fields by offering its members new opportunities to publish and present ideas to the academic community and beyond.
ASMEA will offer its assistance to established and new scholars, including un-tenured faculty, graduate students, and those in related fields to expand the body of scholars and knowledge.
Professor Bernard Lewis ▪ Professor Fouad Ajami
ASMEA Publications
Forthcoming Issue: Journal of the Middle East and Africa
The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, the flagship publication of ASMEA, is the first peer-reviewed academic journal to include both the entire continent of Africa and the Middle East within its purview — exploring the historic social, economic, and political links between these two regions, as well as the modern challenges they face.
Interdisciplinary in its nature, it approaches the regions from the perspectives of Middle Eastern and African studies as well as anthropology, economics, history, international law, political science, religion, security studies, women's studies, and other disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. It seeks to promote new research to better understand the past and chart more clearly the future of scholarship on the regions. The Journal of the Middle East and Africa is published in cooperation with Taylor & Francis.
To order a copy of the Journal, click here.
Scholarly papers, on current research only, are now being accepted for upcoming issues. For consideration, please submit papers to journal@asmeascholars.org.
ASMEA Annual Conference
6th Annual ASMEA Conference:
"Tides of Change: Looking Back and Forging Ahead in the Middle East & Africa"
November 21 - 23, 2013 * Key Bridge Marriott Hotel * Washington, D.C.
The 2013 Conference will feature:
- Keynote address by Michael Young, opinion editor, Daily Star newspaper, Beirut, Lebanon
- Roundtable discussions on: "Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Region, and Beyond," "The Retreat of the Great Powers in the Middle East," and "Revolution, Revolt, and Reform in North Africa."
- Banquet luncheon and professional networking reception.
- Film Screenings.
- Displays by publishers of the latest academic titles.
- More still to come! Visit our website regularly to get the most up-to-date information on our Sixth Annual Conference.
ASMEA Membership
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Become A Member
Who Should Join:
ASMEA membership is open to teaching professionals, students, government employees, interested members of the public, and academic institutions, engaged in Middle Eastern and African studies, and related fields.
Costs:
Membership is available in the following categories: Individual Members, $65; Student Members, $35; Life Members, $1,000; Institutional Membership, $400.
Benefits Of Membership:
Subscription to the Journal of the Middle East and Africa; Discounted Conference Registration Fees; Unlimited Job Bank Access; Write for Book Notes service; Eligible for Awards, Research, and Travel Grants; Receive Quarterly ASMEA e-Newsletter.
For more information and to become a member, click here. ASMEA Publications
Selected Papers from ASMEA's 2008 Conference Available as a Collected Volume
Political Islam from Muhammed to Ahmadinejad, Joseph M. Skelly, ed. (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Security International, 2009), 276p.
Selections from the ASMEA inaugural conference are available in a release from Praeger Security International (an imprint of ABC-CLIO) entitled Political Islam from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad: Defenders, Detractors, and Definitions. Edited by ASMEA’s Treasurer, Joseph Morrison Skelly, this collected volume features a Foreword by ASMEA’s Chairman, Bernard Lewis, and brings together a team of experts to create a compelling, scholarly investigation of the interrelationship of Islam and politics. Learn More
ASMEA Annual Conference
6th Annual ASMEA Conference:
"Tides of Change: Looking Back and Forging Ahead in the Middle East & Africa"
November 21 - 23, 2013 * Key Bridge Marriott Hotel * Washington, D.C.
The 2013 Conference will feature:
- Keynote address by Michael Young, opinion editor, Daily Star newspaper, Beirut, Lebanon
- Roundtable discussions on: "Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Region, and Beyond," "The Retreat of the Great Powers in the Middle East," and "Revolution, Revolt, and Reform in North Africa."
- Banquet luncheon and professional networking reception.
- Film Screenings.
- Displays by publishers of the latest academic titles.
- More still to come! Visit our website regularly to get the most up-to-date information on our Sixth Annual Conference.
Welcome to ASMEA
ASMEA is an academic society dedicated to promoting the highest standards of research and teaching in Middle Eastern and African studies, and related fields. It is a response to the mounting interest in these increasingly inter-related fields, and the absence of any single group addressing them in a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary fashion.
ASMEA is, first and foremost, a community of scholars concerned to protect academic freedom and promote the search for truth to reach new heights in inquiry. The Association will advance the discourse in these fields by offering its members new opportunities to publish and present ideas to the academic community and beyond.
ASMEA will offer its assistance to established and new scholars, including un-tenured faculty, graduate students, and those in related fields to expand the body of scholars and knowledge.
Professor Bernard Lewis ▪ Professor Fouad Ajami
ASMEA Publications
Forthcoming Issue: Journal of the Middle East and Africa
The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, the flagship publication of ASMEA, is the first peer-reviewed academic journal to include both the entire continent of Africa and the Middle East within its purview — exploring the historic social, economic, and political links between these two regions, as well as the modern challenges they face.
Interdisciplinary in its nature, it approaches the regions from the perspectives of Middle Eastern and African studies as well as anthropology, economics, history, international law, political science, religion, security studies, women's studies, and other disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. It seeks to promote new research to better understand the past and chart more clearly the future of scholarship on the regions. The Journal of the Middle East and Africa is published in cooperation with Taylor & Francis.
To order a copy of the Journal, click here.
Scholarly papers, on current research only, are now being accepted for upcoming issues. For consideration, please submit papers to journal@asmeascholars.org.
ASMEA Annual Conference
6th Annual ASMEA Conference:
"Tides of Change: Looking Back and Forging Ahead in the Middle East & Africa"
November 21 - 23, 2013 * Key Bridge Marriott Hotel * Washington, D.C.
The 2013 Conference will feature:
- Keynote address by Michael Young, opinion editor, Daily Star newspaper, Beirut, Lebanon
- Roundtable discussions on: "Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Region, and Beyond," "The Retreat of the Great Powers in the Middle East," and "Revolution, Revolt, and Reform in North Africa."
- Banquet luncheon and professional networking reception.
- Film Screenings.
- Displays by publishers of the latest academic titles.
- More still to come! Visit our website regularly to get the most up-to-date information on our Sixth Annual Conference.
Sixth Annual Conference
Tides of Change: Looking Back and Forging Ahead in the Middle East & Africa
November 21-23, 2013
Key Bridge Marriott*Washington, D.C.
Keynote address by Michael Young, opinion editor, Daily Star newspaper, Beirut, Lebanon.
*CALL FOR PAPERS*
ASMEA is now accepting paper proposals for the Sixth Annual ASMEA Conference. Find out more about our Call for Papers here. To submit an abstract, click here.
Register for Early Bird Rates
ASMEA members that register in advance receive a discount to attend the Annual Conference. To register now, click here.
In the News
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The Enigma of the Syrian Nation(03/11/2013) Franck Salameh, The National Interest Much is often said about the artificiality of the modern Middle Eastern state-system, particularly Syria. Often highlighted are the region’s current “republics” as the outcome of Anglo-French colonial fancy: “contrived points on a map” in Fouad Ajami’s telling, joining together disparate peoples, fractious ethnic groups, apprehensive confessional communities and distinct autonomous provinces—into uneasy, compulsory and ultimately unhappy matrimony. This picture of Western intrusions and failed cartography is not entirely off-kilter. Yet this restive Syria protruding out of the sad canvas of the modern Middle East remains an entity that influential pundits insist on defending and preserving in its current form.
Doubting the Two-State “Solution”(02/01/2013) Joseph Spoerl, New English Review Ever since Israel's victory in the Six-Day War of June 1967, the official policy of the U.S. government has been to support the so-called "two-state solution" to the Arab-Israeli conflict, by which Israel would vacate the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip so that Palestinian Arabs could establish their own state there, co-existing peacefully beside the Jewish state. Support for this solution has become conventional wisdom in the American and European foreign policy establishments and at the U.N.
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