Project News

On 26 October 2023, Professor Adam Hanieh delivered an inaugural lecture to a newly formed student association at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China – the Tsinghua University Student Association of China-MENA Friendship (THU-MENA).

Early career researchers from the Mapping Connections project presented their work at a panel convened as part of the Sixth Conference of the Arab Council for Social Sciences (ACSS) held in Beirut, Lebanon, 25 to 28 May 2023. ACSS is a partner of the Mapping Connections project, and their biannual conference brought together close to 400 researchers from the Arab region and the world, as well as the ACSS Board of Trustees, representatives of donor organizations, university presidents, deans, and faculty members in prominent universities around the region.

Beirut workshop hosted by the University of Exeter and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS)