*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, SPECIAL ISSUE, THE CYBER ORIENT JOURNAL

CyberOrient is devoted to research on the impact of cyberspace and its representation on the Middle East, North Africa and wider Islamic world in Asia. Our last special issue provides a critical insight into digital layers of revolutions, digital communication, and dissidence in the Middle Eastern and North African region.

We are a peer-reviewed journal with two issues per year and we invite scholars in any field to contribute articles or serve as guest editors. With a rapid turn-around time, CyberOrient can publish online in a timely fashion.


What to Submit

Submissions are welcome from scholars in any discipline. Text style follows the current edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. For further information, consult the Publishing Style Guide of the American Anthropological Association.

*CFP* “THE ARAB DIASPORA: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES”, CHAPTER BOOK

This is a call for papers for an edited volume on the Arab diaspora will include an interdisciplinary approach to allow for linguistic, cultural, historical, political, anthropological and socioeconomic perspectives. This call is to request contributions about the Arab diaspora in Southeast Asia, Latin America, the United States, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Eastern Africa, and Australia among other locations.

We welcome contributions that include a variety of methods employed in the social sciences and humanities, to examine various aspects of the Arab diaspora. We also welcome would contributions on the Arab diaspora from various parts of the Arab world: the Levant, the Maghreb, and the Arabian Peninsula. The edited volume will be published by Lexington Books.

We encourage scholars to explore the following in a call for papers (the list is not restricted to these topics, however):

*CFP* "THE ILLUSION OF INCLUSION: REPRESENTATIONS OF ISLAM IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AND MEDIA", EDITED COLLECTION

This project argues that there is still a need for accurate and sensitive representations of Muslims in children’s literature and media. Such portrayals must begin at a deeper level and must directly confront and reconstruct the habitually white conventions of Western publishing and production. Ultimately this project seeks to examine Muslims as both protagonists and minor characters in recent narratives to ask if these examples are accurate, inclusive, and socially responsible. Inclusion and visibility are not enough, and we should not settle for making minority figures more visible and consumable for the dominant culture, but instead insist upon more accurate depictions.  Such renderings can occur only when children’s literature and media are recreated to provide space for diverse characters without the risk of reducing such characters to caricatures or stereotypes navigating a plot that is designed for non-Muslim characters.  

Individual chapters are currently being solicited.