Insights

Welcome to Insights! Formerly our long-running quarterly e-update, since 2020, Insights has been our blog, hosting essays by fellows, interns, staff, and others.

Kathleen Bennallack

Dec 6, 2015 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile

Kathleen Bennallack, 2015–2016 CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Kathleen Bennalack (center) excavating in the Feynan region in 2011. Photo courtesy of K. Bennallack. Kathleen Bennallack is a ACOR–CAORC Pre-Doctoral fellow at ACOR in the 2015-2016 academic year. Her research focuses on the Late Neolithic Era in the Southern Levant (6400-5000 BCE). These were early human societies engaged…

Understanding the New Urban Geographies of the Syrian Conflict

Dec 2, 2015 Posted in CAORC, Research Tagged with CAORC Fellowship, Fellows, geography, political science, refugees, research

Research in Focus: Rewriting the History of the Great Arab Revolt

Nov 15, 2015 Posted in Life@ACOR, Research Tagged with ACOR, Architecture, Feature, History, Interview, Life at ACOR, research

Umm Al-Biyara: Petra’s Not-So-Hidden Jewel

Nov 3, 2015 Posted in Life@ACOR, TWLCRM Tagged with hiking, Inscriptions, Jordan, Petra, Photography, tourism

Ali Hamdan

Nov 1, 2015 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile

Ali Hamdan, 2015–2016 CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Ali Hamdan is an ACOR-CAORC pre-doctorate Fellow conducting research in Jordan in the fall of 2015 until January 2016. He is completing his PhD. in the Department of Geography at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Before coming to Jordan, Ali lived and conducted research in Beirut,…

An Archaeological Tour of Madaba

Oct 12, 2015 Posted in General Tagged with ACOR, Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Jordan, Madaba

Temple of the Winged Lions awarded renewal grant from Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation

Sep 21, 2015 Posted in TWLCRM Tagged with ACOR, afcp, grant, september, TWLCRM

Key attendees at the AFCP launch event included, from left to right, Eman Abdalsalam (TWLCRM team member and Sela president), Elena Ronza (TWLCRM co-director), Ragini Gupta (U.S. Embassy Public Affairs Officer), Dr. Emad Hijazeen (PAP Commissioner), Dr. Glenn J. Corbett (ACOR Associate Director and TWLCRM Co-Director), Alice G. Wells (U.S. Ambassador to Jordan), and Barbara A. Porter (ACOR Director). Photo by Eric Barbee, U.S. Embassy Press Officer.

On 13 September 2015, U.S. Ambassador to Jordan Alice G. Wells launched a grant awarded under the Department of State’s Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) to expand conservation of the Temple of the Winged Lions. The grant, totaling $200,000, was awarded to the American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) in partnership with the Jordanian Department…