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sculpture, drawing, photography and other artistic ephemera - Critical, feminist and post-colonial approaches to Egyptology and Near/Middle Eastern travel studies - Histories of mobility, migration and diasporas of religious communities and other groups - Digital and other new media projects for understanding the history of travel Proposals may be submitted either for individual presentations of 20 minutes or for panels of 3-4 speakers of 20 minutes each. Please include a biography of no more than 200 words, presentation title and a 300-word abstract. Proposals should be submitted to conference.astene@gmail.com by 30 April 2021. This event will be free, but contributors will be expected to join ASTENE if not already members and prior registration will be required; further details will be available in due course.
JOURNALS & MAGAZINES
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Adumatu
http://www.alsudairy.org.sa/en/publishing-programme/ journals/adumatu/ Adumatu is a aemi-annual archaeological journal that sheds the light on the archaeological studies of the Arab World. This magazine relies on an academic body of professors in the field of archaeology working in the universities of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who oversee the publication of the magazine.
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000471/2020/31/2 This journal serves as a forum for study in archaeology, epigraphy, numismatics, and the early history of countries in the Arabian Peninsula. Editors: Bruno Overlaet and Peter Stein
Aram
https://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content. php?url=journal&journal_code=ARAM ARAM Periodical is a refereed journal, published by the ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies. The journal publishes the contributions to the International Conferences which take place yearly together with the ARAM Newsletter.
AramcoWorld
https://www.aramcoworld.com/Home A bi-monthly magazine published by Aramco Services Company, which distributes its magazine, Saudi Aramco World, to increase cross-cultural understanding and to broaden knowledge of the cultures, history and geography of the Arab and Muslim worlds and their connections with the West. Two-year (12-issue) renewable subscriptions to the print edition of AramcoWorld are available without charge to a limited number of readers worldwide.
Atlal: Journal of Saudi Arabian Archaeology
ISSN 1319-8351. Ministry of Education for Antiquities and Museums, PO Box 3734, Riyadh 11481.
Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arabic Literature
https://www.banipal.co.uk/current_issue/ A magazine of modern Arabic Literature.
Bulletin of the International Association for the Study of Arabia
https://www.theiasa.com/publications/bulletin/ Past issues of our Bulletin can be found online.
Fauna of Arabia
www.libri.ch/App_Web/EN/services/faunaofarabia.aspx A continuous series on the terrestrial, limnetic and marine zoology of the Arabian Peninsula. It began as Fauna of Saudi Arabia but changed its name and remit in 1998
HAWWA Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World
https://brill.com/view/journals/haww/haww-overview.xml Hawwa publishes articles from all disciplinary and comparative perspectives that concern women and gender issues in the Middle East and the Islamic world. These include Muslim and non-Muslim communities within the greater Middle East, and Muslim and Middle Eastern communities elsewhere in the world.
Index Islamicus
https://bibliographies.brillonline.com/browse/indexislamicus An international classified bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world. The Index Islamicus Online provides the reader with an effective overview of what has been published on a given subject in the field of Islamic Studies in its broadest sense.
International Journal of Middle East Studies
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/internationaljournal-of-middle-east-studies# IJMES focuses on the area encompassing the Middle East and adjacent geo-cultural regions from the seventh century to the present.
Journal of Arabian Studies; Arabia, the Gulf and the Red Sea
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjab20/current Journal of Arabian Studies is the only journal focusing on the Arabian Peninsula, its surrounding waters, and their connections with the Western Indian Ocean (from West India
to East Africa), from Antiquity to the present day. It covers a wide range of topics, in all disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities.
Journal of the British-Yemeni Society
http://b-ys.org.uk/journal/about-journal The Journal of the British–Yemeni Society is published annually and distributed to the members of the B-YS. It contains articles by academics, researchers, and experts on a wide range of Yemeni topics including history, politics, ethnography, culture, and ecology.
Journal of Near Eastern Studies
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jnes/current Published by the University of Chicago Press, covering research on the ancient and medieval civilisations of the Near East, including their archaeology, art, history, literature, linguistics, religion, law, and science.
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
https://brill.com/view/journals/jesh/jesh-overview.xml The Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (JESHO) publishes original research articles in Asian, Near, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Studies across history. The journal promotes world history from Asian and Middle Eastern perspectives and it challenges scholars to integrate cultural and intellectual history with economic, social and political analysis.
Journal of Oman Studies
A scholarly journal that publishes original and refereed research in both Arabic and English in areas relating to natural and cultural heritage relevant to the Sultanate of Oman. Published by the Ministry of National Heritage and Culture, Sultanate of Oman. Email: jos@mhc.gov.om or editor_chief@mhc.gov.om
Journal of Persianate Studies
https://brill.com/view/journals/jps/jps-overview.xml The Journal of Persianate Studies is a peer-reviewed publication of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies. The journal publishes articles on the culture and civilization of the geographical area where Persian has historically been the dominant language or a major cultural force.
Levant https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ylev20 Levant is an international peer-reviewed journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL), a British Academy-sponsored institute with research centres in Amman and Jerusalem, and which also supports research in Syria, Lebanon and Cyprus. Levant welcomes papers dealing with the past of the Middle East (Palaeolithic–Ottoman) from a range of disciplinary perspectives including anthropology, archaeology, history and heritage studies.
Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication.
https://brill.com/view/journals/mjcc/mjcc-overview.xml The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication(MEJCC) provides a critical academic sphere that engages scholars of the Middle East and North Africa in a dialogue about culture, communication and politics.
Paléorient
https://www.mshmondes.cnrs.fr/paleorient An international multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the prehistory and protohistory of southwestern and central Asia. Its aim is to promote discussions between prehistorians, archaeologists and anthropologists whose field of research goes from the eastern Mediterranean to the Indus, from central Asia to the Persian Gulf, as well as specialists of various disciplines related to the evolution of Man in his natural environment from the Palaeolithic period to the Early Bronze Age.
Sandgrouse
https://osme.org/sandgrouse/ Sandgrouse is published by the Ornithological Society of the Middle East the Caucuses and Central Asia and contains papers and short notes on the ornithology of the region, provides bird and conservation news from the region and a comprehensive round up of bird sightings in the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Sekka Magazine
https://sekkamag.com/ Sekka is the first online magazine and publication to be managed by Khaleejis and narrated primarily by the people of the Arabian Gulf Region. Established in 2017, and headquartered in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, Sekka is an online magazine that is dedicated to documenting the stories of the Arabian Gulf Region and the experiences of its people, and sharing them with the world.
Syria
https://www.ifporient.org/publications/syria/ Syria, subtitled Archéologie, art et histoire (until 2005 Revue d’art oriental et d’archéologie), is a multidisciplinary and multilingual academic journal covering the Semitic Middle East from prehistory to the Islamic conquest.
Tribulus, Journal of the Emirates Natural History Group
http://enhg.org/Home/Publications/Tribulus.aspx Volumes 1 through 15 are now scanned in to PDF format and available on the ENHG website.