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8 September 2024 Zeidan Kafafi, professor emeritus of Yarmouk University, writes: “In the academic year 1967–1968 I enrolled as a student at the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Jordan. Unfortunately, in that same period the Arab-Israeli Six Days War began on June 5, 1967. As a result of the war, in […]

5 September 2024; updated 29 September 2024 Three lectures are currently on this season’s schedule. About the lecture: The relationship between Jordan and Oman goes back to the mid-1950s but is little known beyond a handful of specialists. This lecture explores the fascinating political and military history between these two polities over the course of

Volume 4 of our biennial open-access journal Archaeology in Jordan is now available. From the introduction: The editors of Archaeology in Jordan 4 are pleased to present this dynamic collection of recent project summaries, which cover excavation and related projects during the period of January 2022 through December 2023. Together these reports reveal a vibrant

9 July 2024 “This year I was able to participate in the study season for the Khirbet al-Muhkayyat Project, along with Kathleen Macleod Kerr, a fellow undergraduate student from Wilfrid Laurier University. We were delighted to return to the dig house in Madaba where we had stayed in 2023 while completing the field-school credit for

30 May 2024 “Addressing the cost of fuel subsidies is one of the most politically challenging reforms a government can attempt. While subsidies pose a heavy burden on budgets and tend to accrue benefits toward the wealthy, they are quite popular with a large segment of the population, as they serve as a key supplement

21 May 2024 We are pleased to announce the selection of our 2024–2025 fellowship awardees. Twenty fellows were chosen for both short- and long-term fellowships, at all levels from undergraduate to postdoctoral. For further details, please see our current fellows page.

21 May 2024 The American Center of Research has added a new recorded lecture to its YouTube channel. In it, Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, an historian of global migration and forced displacement and an assistant professor of global studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, —talks about his newly published book, Empire of Refugees: North

9 May 2024 The lecture originally scheduled for May 13, 2024, has been postponed. We hope to reschedule it later in the year.

May 5, 2024 We are pleased to announce that our annual report for FY 2023 is now available online. Through its thirty-two illustrated pages you will learn about our mission, fellowship programs and awards, highlights of our projects, activities of our library, archive, and publication staff, and more. Last year was a productive one for

14 April 2024 My ACOR-CAORC Postdoctoral Fellowship, which I undertook in spring 2024, focused on the preparation of an upcoming volume entitled Archaeological Expedition to Khirbat Iskandar and Its Environs, Vol. 2: Final Report on the Early Bronze IV Area B Settlements. [….] For the purposes of this brief essay, I choose to discuss one