Call for papers: Conference: “Shifting Borders: America and the Middle East/North Africa”, Beirut, 11-14 January 2012

The Conference is hosted by The Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) at the American University of Beirut. We are living in a moment of global change that requires new academic questions. For example, the so-called “Arab Spring” invites more complex understandings of East/West binaries, more nuanced analyses of the Arab and Islamic worlds, and more sophisticated readings of religious, ethnic, and national identities. Moreover, in the United States, fierce battles over the social ..