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.

Craig Harvey, 2015–2016 Bikai Fellowship & Harrell Family Fellowship

Jun 15, 2015 Posted in Fellows, Profile

Craig Harvey is conducting research in Jordan in the summer of 2015 on ceramic building materials from a Roman fort at Humayma and from a Roman bath house at ‘Ayn Gharandal. Craig has always been interested in bath houses, heating systems, and construction materials. He is also pursuing a side project to examine the remains…

Tareq Ramadan

Jun 15, 2015 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile

Tareq Ramadan, 2014–2015 CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Tareq Ramadan is researching Umayyad-era coins, seals, weights, documents and other inscribed objects in Jordan. He is interested in reconstructing the political and economic environment of the Umayyad culture in Jordan in the 7th and 8th centuries CE. Tareq is a CAORC Pre-Doctorate Fellow in the 2014-2015 cycle. A…

A Day in the Life of the TWLCRM Initiative

Jun 1, 2015 Posted in TWLCRM Tagged with ACOR, Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, internships, Petra, TWLCRM

“Heritage Conservation and Host Communities in Jordan” by Dr. Erin Addison

May 13, 2015 Posted in Lecture Tagged with addison, erin addison, heritage conservation, host communities, lecture, may

Environmental Engineer from Wadi Musa at al-Tahouna mill site, Wadi Musa (photo by E. Addison)

The Top Stratum: Heritage Conservation and Host Communities in Jordan Dr. Erin Addison Cultural Heritage Resources (CHR) Projects Lead for the USAID-SCHEP Project Wednesday 13 May 2015 at 6:00 pm Reception to Follow About the Lecture: Over the past 40 years there has been a growing awareness that archaeologists should consider the perspectives, concerns, and…

Introducing SCHEP: Sustainable Cultural Heritage through Engagement of Local Communities Project

May 4, 2015 Posted in SCHEP Tagged with ACOR, Cultural Heritage, SCHEP

Come to Petra, Experience the Exhibition

Apr 22, 2015 Posted in General, TWLCRM Tagged with Archaeology, Petra

Restoring Amman’s Great Roman Temple

Apr 16, 2015 Posted in General Tagged with ACOR, Amman, Architecture, Restoration

“New Sciences of Antiquity and Arab Modernity” by Dr. Elena Dodge Corbett

Apr 8, 2015 Posted in Lecture Tagged with antiquity, april, corbett, elena corbett, elena dodge corbett, lecture, modernity, otttoman

Competitive Archaeology was published by the University of Texas Press in January 2015

Ramses Was a Semite: New Sciences of Antiquity and Arab Modernity in the Late Ottoman World Dr. Elena Dodge Corbett Resident Director, Amman Study Center, Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Wednesday 8 April 2015 at 6:00 pm Reception to Follow About the Lecture: Dr. Elena Corbett has recently published a new book entitled Competitive…

Remembering Wendy Botham – A Life that Lit Up Petra

Apr 1, 2015 Posted in General, Life@ACOR Tagged with Petra

The Wadi Hafir Petroglyph Survey: Shedding New Light on Thamudic Inscriptions

Mar 10, 2015 Posted in General, Research Tagged with corbett, Feature, glenn corbett, Inscriptions, Surveying, Wadi Hafir

“Traces of Early Islam in Wadi Ramm” by Dr. Glenn J. Corbett and Firas Bqain

Mar 4, 2015 Posted in Lecture Tagged with bqain, corbett, firas bqain, glenn corbett, islam, lecture, march, wadi rum

Early Islamic (Kufic) inscription dates 109 AH (AD 727/728) in Wadi Shireh (photo G.J. Corbett)

Traces of Early Islam in Wadi Ramm: A Desert Mosque and Waystation from the Time of the Umayyads Dr. Glenn J. Corbett, ACOR Associate Director Firas Bqain, ACOR Administrator Wednesday 4 March 2015 at 6:00 pm Reception to Follow About the Lecture: In the winter of 1988, while surveying Wadi Shireh in the Hisma/Wadi Ramm…

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Craig Harvey, 2015–2016 Bikai Fellowship & Harrell Family Fellowship

Tareq Ramadan

A Day in the Life of the TWLCRM Initiative

“Heritage Conservation and Host Communities in Jordan” by Dr. Erin Addison

Introducing SCHEP: Sustainable Cultural Heritage through Engagement of Local Communities Project

Come to Petra, Experience the Exhibition

Restoring Amman’s Great Roman Temple

“New Sciences of Antiquity and Arab Modernity” by Dr. Elena Dodge Corbett

Remembering Wendy Botham – A Life that Lit Up Petra

The Wadi Hafir Petroglyph Survey: Shedding New Light on Thamudic Inscriptions

“Traces of Early Islam in Wadi Ramm” by Dr. Glenn J. Corbett and Firas Bqain

Firas Bqa’in: Archaeologist, Academic, and ACOR Administrator

Surviving a Middle East Blizzard, ACOR style

A Passion for Petra’s Archaeology – An Interview with TWLCRM Alum Ahmad Hasanat

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