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The American Center of Research (ACOR)'s mission is advancing knowledge of Jordan and the interconnected region, past and present.

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  1. Consider Donating to CASA this Giving Tuesday!
    Dec 3, 2024 · original
    Each year, students and professionals alike have the opportunity to participate in this prestigious, one of a kind program that provides Arabic language training. This year, we need your help with maintaining our program to continue preserving CASA’s legacy for future participants to enjoy. This holiday season, consider donating for Giving Tuesday to our Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) program! We are fundraising to be able to continue cultivating future experts in education, diplomacy, journalism, international development, and more! With your support and donations, together we can continue curating Arabic language training that will give a competitive edge to our participants’ future. Give now! Please visit our page to donate! Any amount is appreciated! The post Consider Donating to CASA this Giving Tuesday! appeared first on Acor Jordan .
  2. Video on the Amman program
    Oct 11, 2022 · original
    The post Video on the Amman program appeared first on Acor Jordan .
  3. Investing in Future Leaders through the Center for Arabic Study Abroad
    Oct 19, 2020 · original
    As the new host of CASA, UArizona is helping train the next generation of experts in Arabic language and culture. Every year, a fresh crop of students from across the United States are chosen as fellows of the Center for Arabic Study Abroad , or CASA. CASA fellows embark on a year of intensive study in the Middle East in pursuit of a higher command of the Arabic language and culture. Acceptance into CASA is considered the pinnacle of Arabic training, and its graduates go on to impact the landscape of Arabic and Middle Eastern studies, as well as U.S.-Middle East policy. In 2019, the University of Arizona was named the new host of CASA, taking over the responsibility from Harvard University. Sonia Shiri, an associate professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies , was chosen as the new director. “This honor further solidifies the University of Arizona’s status as hom
  4. Jordan’s Tourism Sector in the Wake of COVID-19: Where Do We Go From Here?
    Jul 15, 2020 · original
    by Nizar Al Adarbeh, Starling Carter, Hussein Khirfan, and Shatha Abu Aballi, USAID SCHEP * A local craftsman teaches a visitor how to create bottled sand art as part of an interactive tourism experience with Aqabawi in Aqaba. Steady Growth and Increasing Opportunities: The Tourism Sector in Jordan In recent years, Jordan’s tourism industry has grown steadily to become one of the most important sectors for the country’s employment and GDP. Jordan’s World Heritage Sites, including Petra and Wadi Rum, have topped travel lists and helped to make Jordan an increasingly popular destination for travelers from all over the world. The establishment of new, affordable routes between Jordan and Europe on low-cost airlines such as Ryanair and EasyJet has further enhanced this growth. This, in turn, has led to an increasing number of tour operators and agencies, hotels, lodges, tourist restaurants,
  5. Nabataeans on the Shores of the Dead Sea
    Jun 22, 2020 · original
    ACOR Proudly Presents: “Nabataeans on the Shores of the Dead Sea” An ACOR Public Lecture by Dr. Konstantinos D. Politis on March 10, 2020 About the Lecture: Ancient sites that have recently come to light on the Dead Sea littoral reveal what life was like for the average Nabataean some two thousand years ago. Ancient texts also refer to these communities and the close relations that they had with their immediate neighbors to the northwest, even to the extent of intermarriage. The Dead Sea region will be discussed in the larger context of the evolving Nabataean realm. The site of Khirbet Qazone will be given special attention, as it is the focus of K.D. Politis’ current research supported by an ACOR CAORC fellowship. The cemetery at Khirbet Qazone included well-preserved textiles, along with other objects dating from the 1st to 3rd centuries A.D. There is also an early Christian phase (4th
  6. The Movement to Abolish Article 308: A Brief Reflection on Women’s Activism in Amman, Jordan
    Jun 15, 2020 · original
    by Josephine Chaet, ACOR-CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow 2019 Majlis al-nūwāb [House of Representatives], municipal district, Amman (c. 2019). Photo by author. On August 1, 2017, members of the House voted to strike down Article 308 of the Jordanian penal code, as researcher Josephine Chaet discusses in greater depth in this blog. Since returning to my home institution in 2019, following almost two years of intermittent fieldwork in Jordan, I have slowly begun the process of analyzing the ethnographic data collected over sixteen months of research with three non-governmental women’s organizations located in the urban core of Amman. This endeavor has become increasingly complicated as the contemporary global moment, isolating and interrupting, clouds my previous experiences of Jordanian women’s activism. As the numerous organizations at the center of my work actively seek to develop new ways of
  7. Exploring the tourism development landscape in Aqaba
    May 15, 2020 · original
    Kimberly Cavanagh was a Fulbright Scholar (2019–2020) residing at ACOR while undertaking research to complete her book manuscript exploring tourism development in Aqaba, with the working title “Shifting Landscapes: The Social and Economic Development of Aqaba, A Red Sea City.” Dr. Cavanagh is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina Beaufort and a previous ACOR-CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow (2005). Kimberley Cavanagh, 2020. Photo courtesy of the author. My current monograph project, “Shifting Landscapes: The Social and Economic Development of Aqaba, A Red Sea City,” seeks to understand how the social and economic landscapes of Aqaba are being reshaped as tourism-related development alters the physical landscape. Specifically, it delves into the ways the local population understands how this promised development has either been realized or fallen short of its
  8. The ACOR Photo Archive: Mobilizing Digital Tools to Preserve Visual Heritage
    May 12, 2020 · original
    ACOR Proudly Presents: “The ACOR Photo Archive: Mobilizing Digital Tools to Preserve Visual Heritage” An ACOR Public Lecture by Dr. Jack Green and Jessica Holland on February 11, 2020 About the Lecture The ACOR Photo Archive contains rich collections of tens of thousands of photographs, but its reach also extends far beyond the images themselves. ACOR’s archival collections reflect the seismic shifts that have occurred in the region over the past 80 years, including early black-and-white photos of 1940s Amman, rare color slides of the technological and development boom of the 1980s, and photographs of heritage sites that have since been damaged by conflict in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen in the last decade. Newly digitized, these images and their associated metadata provide an especially valuable frame of reference with which to understand Jordanian heritage, demonstrating many applications wi
  9. Cosmetic Adornment during the Iron Age in the Southern Levant
    Apr 30, 2020 · original
    A Pierre and Patricia Bikai Fellowship at ACOR was awarded to Betty Adams for spring 2020. She is a graduate student in Near Eastern Archaeology at La Sierra University in Riverside, California, where her studies have concentrated on the chemistry and composition of ancient makeup as represented by traces remaining on artifacts from ancient Jordan. For the last hundred years, the archaeological community has assumed that certain palettes and mortars found at archaeological sites in Jordan were used to prepare and contain cosmetics—but were they really? And even if they were, had the makeup compounds been created with local ingredients or brought in through trade? These were some of the questions I hoped to address while in Jordan thanks to the Pierre and Patricia Bikai Fellowship. Once I had compared the forms of cosmetic palettes and mortars from the sites of Tall al-‘Umayri and Khirbat
  10. Religious Change in Southern Jordan in the Byzantine and Islamic Periods
    Apr 23, 2020 · original
    ACOR Proudly Presents: “Religious Change in Southern Jordan in the Byzantine and Islamic Periods” An ACOR Public Lecture by Dr. Robert Schick on December 10, 2019 About the Lecture: In the first centuries AD, everybody in the area of Jordan south of the Wadi Mujib were devotees of some Nabataean or Roman religion or another. Christians first appear in the early fourth century and grew in numbers as the pagans largely disappeared by the early fifth century. The Christians formed the overwhelming majority of the population throughout the fifth, sixth and early seventh centuries and continued to thrive for a few generations after the Muslim Conquests of the 630s. As the Muslim population grew and became the majority, the Christians declined and largely faded from view by the ninth and tenth centuries, leaving a Christian population attested in only a few places in the Crusader period. After

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