Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World

Call for Papers - Women & Scriptures in the Arab World

The Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW), at the Lebanese American University, is in the process of soliciting articles for the forthcoming issue of our quarterly publication AlRaida which will focus on ³Women and Scriptures in the Arab World.²

Al-Raida - http://www.lau.edu.lb/centers-institutes/iwsaw/raida.html

We are interested in receiving academic studies and critical essays that revolve around the issue in question. Scripture scholarship is a difficult discipline that is usually given in departments of religious studies or in different schools of theology in the Arab world. Scripture scholarship, with the appropriate research methods, can be attractive to many women scholars, literary critics, theologians, and scripture readers.

Topics can include (but are not restricted to):

Named and unnamed women in the Old Testament, New Testament and the Qur’an.
Sacred texts, interpretation and women’s rights.
Spiritual quest and women’s experience.
Women scholars and the study of Scriptures.
Sacred women figures in the Arts and Music.
Women, sacred narrative, and literary criticism.

If you are interested in contributing to this issue of Al-Raida, kindly send your abstract (250-300 words) no later than June 15, 2009. All abstracts submitted are reviewed by AlRaida’s editorial staff and are subject to its approval.

Once the abstract is approved contributors will have to submit their paper no later
than August 15, 2009.

Submissions are accepted in English, Arabic or French. All non-English submissions will be translated by IWSAW and published in English following the approval of the author.

This journal edition will be edited by Dr. Hosn Abboud, a scholar on Qur’anic Mary (Mother of Jesus) and a literary critic. Kindly send your emails simultaneously to the managing editor, Ms. Myriam Sfeir, at al-raida@lau.edu.lb and to the guest editor, Dr. Hosn Abboud, at hosnabboud@gmail.com.

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