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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

1 March 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!

21 February 2024 In November 1980, the Arab League met in Amman, Jordan, for a summit aimed at promoting Arab unity, particularly against Israel and Egypt, which had concluded a peace treaty the previous year. But the summit rapidly fell apart, as members of the Steadfastness and Confrontation Front (جبهة الصمود والتّصدي) — Syria, Algeria, Libya,

7 February 2024 As we come to the close of SCHEP today, February 7, 2024, we just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has been involved in the project over the past more than nine years. The engagement of local communities is widely recognized as key to sustainable efforts in the field

31 January 2024 The American Center of Research is pleased to announce publication of Mount Machaerus: An Introduction to the Historical, Archaeological, and Pilgrim Site Overlooking the Dead Sea in the Kingdom of Jordan. Written by Hungarian archaeologist and architect Győző Vörös, who led the recent excavations there, and illustrated in full color, this volume encapsulates

23 January 2024 An important clue when attempting to identify the era and region in which a manuscript was produced is the style of handwriting or calligraphy used by the scribe or copyist and, in relevant instances, to what degree manuscript illumination influenced the lined text. Tenth-century Persian ‘Abbasid vizier Ibn Muqla (d. AD 940),

Get ready for enriching lectures as we launch our Spring 2024 Lecture Series. Starting in February and continuing each month until May, we are bringing you thought-provoking discussions on various captivating topics! Save the dates to join us at our center in Jordan or virtually from the comfort of your own space. This is an