Social Science Research and Women in the Arab World. UNESCOWomen and the Family in the Middle East. Elizabeth Warnock FerneaWomen and Revolution in Iran. Guity NashatMuslim Women. Freda Hussain

Signs ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 806-809
Author(s):  
Ylana N. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The Family

Three Questions for Historians of Science in the Modern Middle East and North Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 588-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyrus Schayegh
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Social Science ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Subsequent Work ◽  
Societal Relevance

What was science, who was involved in it, and where did it unfold in the modern Middle East and North Africa? These are the three questions raised in this piece. The following notes echo my past research on the growth and societal relevance of biomedical sciences in Iran, and are also informed by a new interest in social sciences and, more particularly, in the establishment in 1927 of the Social Science Research Section at the American University of Beirut (AUB; called Syrian Protestant College until 1920) and its subsequent work. A handful of social scientists led by the American Stuart Dodd and financed by the US Rockefeller Foundation, which was active worldwide, helped turn AUB into a hub not only of education, but more than before, of research too. Covering wide swathes of the “Near East,” these social scientists framed that region as an extraordinary “laboratory” for social science research.

Project on Law and Social Structure

1981 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
Charles E. Butterworth
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
Science Research Council

The Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council was appointed in 1959 to advance humanistic and social science research in and on the Near and Middle East. Over the years, in addition to offering fellowships and grants, it has held workshops and conferences to investigate topics which would allow humanists and social scientists to understand this vital area better. When appropriate, the papers from the conferences have been published as scholarly volumes.

Defining the State in the Middle East: A Report on the Second of Three Workshops Organized by The Social Science Research Council’s Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East

1991 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Mitchell ◽  
Roger Owen
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Background Material

The SSRC’S Joint Near and Middle East Committee has organized a series of workshops on the state in its Middle Eastern context. The format consists of discussions of papers written by members of the committee, as well as of articles and chapters of books presented as background material by a small number of invited guests. A report on the first workshop, held at Buyukada, Istanbul, in September 1989 appeared in the MESA Bulletin 24 (1990), pages 179 to 183. A third workshop was held at St. Antony’s College, Oxford in December 1990.

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