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8 October 2024; updated 10 October 2024 Petra and ACOR are featured in the two-episode 13th season premier of the Discovery Channel’s series Expedition Unknown, hosted by Josh Gates! Share in new discoveries with us on October 9th and October 16th at 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific on the Discovery Channel. Visit the Expedition Unknown […]

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 (36.1) 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