Calls for Submissions

African Journal of History and Culture (AJHC)
Open call for submissions for new journal
The African Journal of History and Culture (AJHC) publishes high-quality solicited and unsolicited articles, in all areas of the subject. All articles published in (AJHC) will be peer-reviewed. The following types of papers are considered for publication: original articles in basic and applied research; and critical reviews, surveys, opinions, commentaries and essays. Our objective is to inform authors of the decision on their manuscript(s) within four weeks of submission. Following acceptance, a paper will normally be published in the next issue.
 
Instruction for authors and other details are available on our website www.academicjournals.org/AJHC. Prospective authors should send their manuscript(s) to  African Journal of History and Culture (AJHC).
 
Open Access
One key request of researchers across the world is unrestricted access to research publications. AJHC is fully committed Open Access Initiative by providing free access to all articles (both abstract and full PDF text) as soon as they are published. We ask you to support this initiative by publishing your papers in this journal.

Invitation to Review
AJHC is seeking for qualified reviewers as members of the review board team. AJHC serves as a great resource for researchers and students across the globe. We ask you to support this initiative by joining our reviewer’s team. If you are interested in serving as a reviewer, kindly send us your resume to AJHC@acadjourn.org.


Arab Studies Journal
Open call for submissions
The Arab Studies Journal is a peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary research publication in the field of Arab and Middle East Studies. The Journal is accepting manuscripts and reviews on a rolling basis. Original work in any social science discipline or literature will be considered for publication. The Journal encourages the submission of papers and review representing fresh and alternative approaches no sufficiently represented in mainstream scholarship. Research articles submitted to the Journal should be twenty-five to forty double-spaced typewritten pages, including endnotes. All submissions must include the author’s name, institutional affiliation, address, telephone and fax numbers, and email address, and can be submitted by email or online (info@arabstudiesjournal.org; www.arabstudiesjournal.org). ASJ conforms to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition. Transliteration follows a modified IJMES system. Please see our website for submission instructions, transliteration notes, and complete submission style requirements. For information, contact: Arab Studies Journal, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, ICC 241, Washington DC 20057 (202 687-0904).

Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS)
CIRS Occasional Paper Series
Call for Papers
The Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar is pleased to announce an open call for contributions to the CIRS Occasional Paper series. CIRS publishes original research in a broad range of issues related to the Gulf region in the areas of international relations, political science, economics, and Islamic studies. Other topics of current significance also will be considered.

Papers should be a maximum of 10,000 words and cannot have been previously published or under consideration for publication elsewhere. Citations must appear at the end of the paper using the format of the International Journal of Middle East Studies. All submissions are subject to a double-blind review process. Any copyright concerns are the full responsibility of the author.

Please send electronic submissions only to cirsresearch@georgetown.edu. Inquiries about the CIRS Occasional Paper Series or other related questions may be directed to Suzi Mirgani, CIRS Publications Coordinator, at sm623@georgetown.edu.

Encounters: An International Journal for the Study of Culture and Society
Special issue call for papers: “The Middle East and Globalization in the 21st Century”
Encounters: An International Journal for the Study of Culture and Society will promote and publish scholarship from the humanities and the social sciences, and their intersections on topics related to the encounters of cultures, intellectual traditions, and social and political systems across space and time. The journal seeks a critical understanding of the transcultural and transnational factors that shape such encounters --and by extension, the world as we know it. The editors encourage contributions that explicitly link the humanities and the social sciences and engage its different methodologies. Regular special volumes will offer stimulating, focused engagement with specific historical, political, cultural, social or theoretical questions. Encounters will be peer-reviewed and published biannually.

Call for Papers. The Middle East and Globalization in the 21st Century Guest Editors, Jan Nederveen Pieterse of University of California at Santa Barbara and Habibul Haque Khondker of Zayed University, invite papers on the Middle East and 21st century globalization, dealing with the major social, economic, cultural and political issues confronting the world today. Papers on the relationship between the Middle East and the growth regions in Asia, especially, China and India in the context of global economic downturn, will receive particular attention. Papers dealing with migrations and changing identity in the Gulf will be of special interest to the editors. Please submit your paper (5,000 to 10,000 words) electronically in MS Word format, font size 12 to encounters@zu.ac.ae (http://encounters.zu.ac.ae/). Call for papers deadline: December 15, 2009.

Israel Affairs
Call for papers-special issue topic: Arab Minority in Israel
Israel Affairs is pleased to announce a special issue dedicated to the Arab minority in Israel. The editor of Israel Affairs is Efraim Karsh of the Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King’s College, London, and the guest editor of this special issue is Alexander Bligh of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and the Ariel University Center.
We invite papers, including reviews, which focus on any aspect of the Arabs in Israel: economic, demographic, political, international activity etc. Articles should not exceed 8000 words and should be edited in line with the journal editing policy. All articles in this journal will undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by two referees. Intended date of publication: mid-2011. Papers should be presented to the guest editor at: ab1061@columbia.edu or: abligh@nd.edu. Deadline for papers: April 1, 2010.

Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research
Special issue call for submissions: “Arab Women & the Media”
The sudden increase in the number of Arab satellite channels targeting Arabs inside and outside the region has been paralleled by an explosion in the number of women working as TV presenters, producers, and news reporters in these various channels. Their appearance has not been confined to women’s and children’s programs, but has been markedly noticeable in the serious genres of news and current affairs too. Furthermore, women from the most conservative societies in the Arabian Gulf have also gained access to these channels, and their presence has
indeed been enforced by the establishment of dedicated Gulf channels such as Al-Jazeera, MBC, Rotana Gulf, IQRA, Dubai, Sharjah and Saudi Channel 2 to name a few.

The aim of this special issue of Arab and Muslim Media Research is to develop and publish a timely collection of papers representing current research in gender and Arab media. Of particular interest are papers that present empirical findings of fieldworks among Arab women media
professionals and which offer conceptual, methodological and analytical rigor. Suggested topic areas: 1. factors that enabled, or conversely restrained, women’s access to and success in media industries; 2. how women negotiate their success in a male-dominated field; 3. how Arab women media professionals identify themselves and are identified by others; 4. women’s representation in the media and the impact of this on their interest in joining the media industries; 5. the success criteria as defined by men and women in the media industries; and 6. Arab women’s consumption/interaction of a media congested world.

This special issue will be dedicated to articles dealing with this rather under-represented issue and it aims to gather scholarly views on gender and identity in Arab media industry. Contributions based on empirical studies are particularly welcome.  To ensure the quality of the
contributions a variety of papers will be considered including for example theory-informed case studies and critical review of current literature (particularly in Arabic).

Special Issue Editors: Dr. Noha Mellor (n.mellor@kingston.ac.uk), Kingston University and Dr. Noureddine Miladi (noureddine.miladi@northampton.ac.uk), University of Northampton, UK.

Submissions: Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be submitted via email. Each manuscript should be no more than 8500 words in main text and 150 words in abstract. All submissions will be blind-refereed. Please refer to the Submission Guidelines for the Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research before you formally submit your paper. . http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=1700/. Deadline for submission of full papers: January 15, 2010.

Journal of Global Analysis
Open Call for Submissions
Journal of Global Analysis endeavors to become the foremost international forum for academics, researchers and policy makers to share their knowledge and experience in the disciplines of political science, international relations, economics, sociology, international law and human geography. 

Journal of Global Analysis is an interdisciplinary refereed e-journal, edited by a group of international scholars indicated in the Editorial Board and International Advisory Board. The journal is published at its own web site http://www.cesran.org//globalanalysis. Journal of Global Analysis welcomes submissions of articles from related persons involved in the scope of the journal as well as summary reports of conferences and lecture series held in social sciences.

Prospective authors should submit 4,000 – 15,000-word articles for consideration in Microsoft Word-compatible format. For more complete descriptions and submission instructions, please access the Editorial Guidelines and Style Guidelines pages at the CESRAN website: http://www.cesran.org/globalanalysis. Contributors are urged to read CESRAN's author guidelines and style guidelines carefully before submitting articles. Articles submissions should be sent in electronic format to Ozgur TUFEKCI, Chairman of CESRAN and Editor-in-Chief,oztufekci@cesran.org or Husrev TABAK, Managing Editor, husrevtabak@cesran.org.

Literati
Literati is a weekly literary magazine, published every Sunday with The News International, the second largest English newspaper in Pakistan. Literati invites submissions of short stories, book reviews, essays on writers, poetic prose, intense rants, interviews of fiction writers, and surveys of literary movements. Preference will be given to themes which concern Pakistanis and South Asians worldwide.

Please send your submissions, as attached MS Word documents of 1000 to 1200 words, to new.literati@gmail.com and you will get a response within a week. We pay 1500 to 2500 Pakistani rupees per published piece. Your published writings will be available in print and online form. Postal Address: Saeed Ur Rehman, Editor, Literati, The News International, Davis Road, Lahore, Pakistan. Open deadline.

Mawlana Rumi Review
Open Call for submissions
The Mawlana Rumi Review is an academic review devoted to the life, thought, poetry and legacy of Rumi, Islam’s greatest Sufi poet and author of some 60,000 verses composed in the widest variety of metrical patterns ever used by any Persian poet. Mawlana (‘Our master’) Jalal al-Din Rumi (d. 1273) has also been the best-selling poet in English in the United States for the last two decades. A publication of the Rumi Institute (Gokalp Kamil, Founder), Near East University, Cyprus and the Rumi Studies Group at the Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies, Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, produced and distributed in the UK, the Review publishes articles, reports and book reviews in English and French. The editor welcomes articles on Rumi’s art of story-telling, poetic imagery, theology, spiritual psychology, ecumenism, erotic spirituality, pedagogy, hermeneutics, ethics, epistemology, prophetology, metaphysics and cosmology, as well as on the heritage of Rumi’s thought in modern and medieval literary history and interpretation and commentary on his works such as the Mathnawi and Divan-I Shams-I Tabriz. For more information, visit: http://huss.exeter.ac.uk/iais/centres/cpis/index.php under the Rumi Studies Group at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. All correspondence should be addressed to the editor: Dr. Leonard Lewisohn Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter EX4 4ND UK (l.lewisohn@exeter.ac.uk). For general inquiries, contact: Annouchka Bayley, Managing Editor; Ground floor, 5 Vartry Rd., London N156PR (annouchka_b@hotmail.com).

Making Connections:  Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural Diversity
Open call for submissions
Making Connections: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural Diversity, a national journal published by the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and the Frederick Douglass Institute Collaborative, welcomes the submission of academic essays from any discipline, poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction essays that explore cultural diversity issues for our spring 2010 issue. See our website at http://organizations.bloomu.edu/connect/ for more information about the journal and for recent issues. We prefer electronic submissions at connect@bloomu.edu. Manuscripts should conform to citation methods as described in the current MLA Handbook. Manuscripts will be peer- reviewed, and authors will be notified in two to three months. The deadline for this “general topic” issue is December 1, 2009.

Middle East Critique
Special issue call:  “Toward Understanding the 2009 Election in Iran: An Exit Strategy out of the Crisis”
Guest Editor: Roksana Bahramitash
The results of the June presidential election in Iran were a shock to those who had been following the campaigns. Once again in Iran's modern history, political developments had many surprises. The election results indicated that Ahmadinejad had been re-elected with 63 percent of the vote, a result the opposition disputes as being fraudulent. A sizeable proportion of the electorate seemed to agree with the opposition and participated in massive street demonstrations throughout the country in the days following the balloting. The demonstrations were suppressed with a show of force, including mass arrests. Now leaders of the opposition and the major reformist party, are on trail. The objective of this special issue is to seek to analyze the long term impact of what has been a historical moment by addressing the following questions:

What factors led to massive discontent with the election? What are the likely outcomes of the post election crisis? Is the leadership in Iran locked in a dead-end? Can there be ways of resolving the crisis through negotiations and peaceful means? What social and political options exist for an exit strategy from the current crisis? Will the clamp down on civil rights remain an effective long term option for the current administration? Will there be more clashes between the government forces and the people? If such a violent course of action takes place, what would be its outcome? In the future, will Iran remain in the hands of the current theocracy or it would be ruled by secular politicians?

In line with such questions, this special issue particularly encourages paper submissions which examine the following topics: changing religious discourse among the clerics; Iran's regional role in neighboring countries; i.e. Iraq and Afghanistan as well as in countries such as Lebanon and Syria; the role of foreign media and access to foreign media; US foreign policy toward Iran; the role of women and youth in the formation of the civil movement; and the impact of the global and national political economy. For information or to submit, contact: roksana.bahramitsh@umontreal.ca. Call for submissions deadline: November 1, 2009.

Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication
Journal Announcement and Call for Papers- New in 2008!
Editors:
Lina Khatib, Royal Holloway, University of London
Tarik Sabry, University of Westminster
Dina Matar, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
John Esposito, Georgetown University

The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication provides a transcultural academic sphere that engages Middle Eastern and Western scholars in a critical dialogue about culture, communication and politics in the Middle East. It also provides a forum for debate on the region's encounters with modernity and the ways in which this is reshaping people's everyday experiences.
MEJCC¹s long-term objective is to provide a vehicle for developing the field of study into communication and culture in the Middle East. The Journal encourages work that reconceptualizes dominant paradigms and theories of communication to take into account local cultural particularities. MEJCC also supports work that challenges the static and suzerain epistemological frameworks through which the Middle East has been represented and perceived.

The Journal provides a platform for diverse and interdisciplinary work, including original research papers from within and outside the Middle East, reviews and review articles, to investigate transformations in communication, culture and politics in the region. Though the focus is on the Middle East, North Africa and the Islamic world, it targets a global readership. Particular interests include but are not limited to: politics and representation; transnational cultures; visual culture; film; broadcasting (radio, television, satellite); print media; material culture; journalism practices; cultural politics; the digital media and cultural practices; media consumption and audiences; popular culture; anthropology and ethnographic research; political economy of the media; gender and sexuality; diaspora, migration and culture; studies of postcolonialism and imperialism; memory studies; space and place; religion; and media regulation. The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication is published by Brill, a leading publisher on Middle Eastern history, art and cultures. MEJCC is a peer-reviewed journal, published twice a year in hard copy and online. The first issue will appear in 2008.

The Journal is currently accepting submissions. Contributions should be original work which has neither been simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere nor published previously. Manuscripts should be submitted in duplicate hard copies, double-spaced throughout (including quotations, notes, bibliography) with notes at the end, and all pages consecutively numbered. The author¹s name, affiliation and contact details (including e-mail and full address) as well a short biography should be supplied on a separate sheet of paper accompanying the manuscript. All submissions should be accompanied by an electronic version on CD-ROM or by email. Articles should be 6000-7000 words long and include an abstract of not more than 150 words that clearly defines the thesis and the sources quoted. Up to five keywords should be included to identify the article. Reviews of films, books, conferences, and cultural events are welcome and should be 1000-1500 words long. Manuscripts should be sent to: Dr. Tarik Sabry, School of Media, Arts and Design, Communication and Media Research Institute, University of Westminster, Northwick Park, Harrow HA1 3TP, United Kingdom (sabryt@wmin.ac.uk). Queries can be addressed to Lina Khatib (lina.khatib@rhul.ac.uk), Tarik Sabry (sabryt@wmin.ac.uk), or Dina Matar (dm27@soas.ac.uk).

Studia Khaldûnica
Call for Papers
The electronic review Studia Khaldûnica adjacent with the site Ibn Khaldoun is an international scientific review devoted primarily to the khaldounian studies; though subsidiary it publishes in its heading varia articles referring to the various fields of social sciences.

Studia Khaldûnica, annual working review according to the system of continuous flow, publishes original articles whose authors judge convenient to promptly place them at the disposal of the international scientific community. It accommodates also the critical notes and reports.

Its leading committee is composed of international and Tunisian scientists whose competence of each one in his field of research is not any more to show. They come from generations, formations, schools, and different courses; their presence guarantees the scientific rigor of the review, its independence, and the diversity of point of view being emitted on its pages. The Tunisians scientists are: Khalifa Chater, Hassen Annabi, Radhi Daghfous, Mohamed Tahar Mansouri, Hedi Timoumi, Amor Belhedi, Lotfi Aissa and Ali Bouaziz. International scientists are : French, Yves Lacoste & Gabriel Martinez ; English, Michael Brett ; Germain, Stefan Leder & Gerd Spittler ; Canadian, Maya Shatzmiller ; Spanish, Maria Jésus Viguera ; et Italian, Massimo Campanini.  

The year 2006 was the year of the sixth centenary of the death of Ibn Khaldun; we had vigorously takes part in it. And we activate that the year 2009 will be the year of the highest scholars of Ibn Khaldun, who without them all khaldunian work would be reduced to the state of manuscripts jealously kept in the cellars of the national libraries, in the best case to the status of beautiful volumes proudly exhibited in some private libraries. It is in this aim that we have created the electronic review studia khaldunica so that its first issue their is devoted.

The large readers whom we have choose that they are the subject of a critical return on their writings are those whom published books referring to Ibn Khaldoun before the year 2000, and which by a natural selection became the classical ones, they are in fact:

Abdelghani Megherbi, Abdelkader Djeghloul, Abderrahman Badaoui, Abdesselam Cheddadi, Abou Yaareb Marzouki, Ahmed Abdessalem, Ali Abdelwahed Wafi, Ali Oumlil, Ali Wardi, Bensalem Himmich, Aziz el-Azmeh, Charles Issawi, Franz Rozenthal, Fuad Baali, Gaston Boutoul, Georges Labica, Heinrich Simon, Henri Peres, Jameleddine Bencheikh, Joseph Walter Fishel, Mahmoud Rabi, Maya Shatzmiller, Michael Brett, Mohamed Abdallah Enan, Mohamed Abed el-Jabri, Mohamed Ben Tawit Tenji, Mohamed Talbi, Mohamed Aziz Lahbabi, Michel Zakaria, Muhsin Mahdi, Nassif Nassar, Sataa Hussari, Svetlana Batsieva, Taha Husain, Vincent Monteil, William Mac Guckin Baron de Slane and Yves Lacoste.

Before sending any article the authors are requested to transmit to us by email an abstract written in French and English languages. The general idea of the article accepted its author will be brought to forward it to us by email as soon as possible accompanied by his C.V. It will be accepted or rejected within three months after its evaluation by two members of the editorial team of the review, or by other peers that we judges imperative to associate them to validate it. The articles for which the experts will have asked for light modifications will be accepted, they will promptly be published as soon as the reception of their ultimate versions. The complete text of the articles published will be accessible freely to all. However, if a major revision should be necessary, the articles will be rejected.

For the next issues we encourage the redaction of articles in the following directions of research:

1. Translation in Western language of a chapter or more of the “Ibar” of Ibn khaldun.

2. The questioning of the level of knowledge of Ibn Khaldun of the inventory of fixtures of the medieval western world such as it emerges in “Muquaddima” and “Ibar”.

3. The inventory criticizes writings on Ibn Khaldoun in a Western country referring to a given period.

4. The second reading of a thesis emitted by a great reader of Ibn Khaldun.

5. The confrontation of certain ideas of Ibn Khaldun with those emitted by his Western contemporaries.

6. The search of a khaldounian concept and continuation of its migration towards other skies.

7. All other relevant and innovative ideas.

Contact: Ali Bouaziz, Director of the Ibn Khaldun website (ali.bouaziz@gmail.com;  www.exhauss-ibnkhaldoun.com.tn.

Zayed University
Open call for submissions in Humanities & Social Sciences Gulf Region
Zayed University, Dubai, the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, invites submissions of original manuscripts in the humanities and the social sciences dealing with the Gulf region for a potential book series. Interested authors should contact Anke Reichenbach at Anke.Reichenbach@zu.ac.ae.