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To follow up or participate in this ongoing project, please join the associated Facebook group Open Jordanian Heritage or send us a message.  On Tuesday, October 7 from 10am–2pm, ACOR will be co-hosting a Wikipedia “Edit-a-thon” in partnership with Wikimedia Levant. Participants will first be trained in how to write and edit Wikipedia articles; then, using […]

لتصفح المعلومات باللغة العربية هنا ACOR announces fellowship opportunities for the 2020-2021 academic year. Applications due February 1 and 15, 2020. See details at https://acorjordan.org/2020-21-acor-fellowships/ or download here.    

To read this post in English, please click here.     يُعلن المركز الأمريكي للإبحاث الشّرقية (أكور) بفتح باب التّقديم لمنح ماليّة مُقدمة للطلاب الأردنييّن لعام 2020-2021 آخر موعد للتقديم: 1 شباط 2020 ًسيقوم أكور بعقد يوم مفتوح للطلبة، يوم السبت 7 / 12 / 2019 من الساعة 12-2، لتقديم شرح مُفصّل بكيّفية التقديم للمنح …تابع

We are thrilled to announce that ACOR is now officially affiliated with MESA (Middle East Studies Association). We hope to continue to reach out and support researchers from diverse fields of the MENA area studies. With affiliated status, ACOR will be able to sponsor discussion panels, if accepted, at the MESA annual meeting. This is

We are pleased to share that Archaeology in Jordan 2016 and 2017 Seasons is now available for free download here on the ACOR website. Archaeology in Jordan (AIJ) is a new, biannual open access (OA) newsletter published online by ACOR aimed at raising scholarly awareness of archaeological and cultural resource management projects being carried out in

  ACOR is proud to announce that in FY 2018 (October 2017 to September 2018), coinciding with ACOR’s 50th year in Jordan, we broke all previous records for total donations, number of new donors, and total individual donors. We started out the year with the goal of reaching 250 individual donations, and thanks to you