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24 September 2024; updated 29 September 2024 Our 2024 Fall Lecture Series continues! How Can Large Collections of Machine-Readable Data Support Arabic as a Second/Foreign Language in the Classroom? October 14, 2024, 6:00 p.m. Amman timeAmerican Center of Research, Amman, JordanDirections About the lecture: Arabic language instruction has traditionally focused on Modern Standard Arabic, but […]

19 September 2024 The next issue of our newsletter (35.2) is now available online! It will be arriving in mailboxes later this month. This issue features: Download your copy!

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.