by Jacqueline Salzinger, Development and Communications Officer (ACOR) Screenshot of the Arabic Wikipedia article for second-language acquisition (SLA). In a typical year, as an academic center in Amman, ACOR buzzes with the speech of Arabic-language enthusiasts. Study-abroad students chat while flipping through vocabulary flashcards in our library. Researchers debate historical periodization or academic terminology, and…
يمكنك قراءة هذه المقابلة باللغة الإنجليزية. هذه المقابلة هي جزء من سلسلة جديدة على مدوناتنا “ اسأل باحث” ، والتي من خلالها نسلط الضوء على التجارب الشخصية للزملاء والباحثين المنتسبين الآخرين. أجريت المحادثة التالية مع نضال جرار (الحاصل على منحة الدراسات العليا المقدمة من أكور للطلاب الأردنيين لعام 2020-2021) الكترونيا عبر الإيميل في شباط 2021….
Translated by Jackie Salzinger. You can also read this interview in Arabic. This written interview is part of a new series on Insights: “Ask A Scholar,” through which we highlight the personal experiences of fellows and other affiliated researchers. The following conversation with Nedhal Jarrar (ACOR Jordanian Graduate Student Scholarship recipient, 2020–2021) took place by email…
by Jack Green, Ph.D. In November 2020, ACOR published the second volume of Archaeology in Jordan (AIJ), an open-access biennial that continues the “Archaeology in Jordan Newsletter,” which appeared in the American Journal of Archaeology from 1991 to 2016. AIJ does not provide a full representation of all the archaeological fieldwork and research conducted in the…
ACOR Proudly Presents:“An Invocation to Jesus in a Safaitic Inscription?” An ACOR online lecture by Dr. Ahmad Al-Jallad (Ohio State University) on February 16, 2021 About the Lecture: Safaitic inscriptions constitute the largest epigraphic corpus in Jordan. “Safaitic” refers to the northernmost branch of the South Semitic alphabet, a sister of the Ancient South Arabian…
This written interview is part of a new series on Insights: “Ask A Scholar,” through which we highlight the personal experiences of fellows and other affiliated researchers. The following conversation with former fellow Waleed Hazbun (ACOR-United States Information Agency, 1997–1998), who is now professor of political science at the University of Alabama, took place by email…
By Jessica Holland, Archival Projects Consultant “To reproduce an object is a task that requires know-how, but to understand what the object represents, its function or how it came to be, requires another kind of knowledge.” —Akram Zaatari, Against Photography (Barcelona: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2018, p. 103) Achievements: reflections on four transformative years…
ACOR Proudly Presents:“Preserving the Cultural Heritage of the Madaba Region… Together: The Madaba Regional Archaeological Museum Project (MRAMP) and Recent Community Archaeology”An Online Lecture by Prof. Douglas R. Clark (La Sierra University) on January 19, 2021 About the Lecture: The Madaba Regional Archaeological Museum Project (MRAMP) has always been about “community archaeology,” which views archaeology…
By Abbad Diraneyya لتقرأ المقال باللغة العربية هنا Under a hot October sun, from which I had nothing but a winter cap to conceal my face, the famous downtown of the Eternal City looked like a bunch of half-fallen columns emerging from a pile of rubble. “Disappointing” would be an understatement: I had patiently waited…
بقلم عبَاد ديرانيّة To read this article in English, click here. لم تكُن بحوزتي إلا قبعة شتوية لتحجب عن عينيَّ شيئاً من أشعة شمس الخريف، التي سطعت أمامي على كومة من الأطلال والأعمدة المتهاوية في مركز مدينة روما: وهو مشهدٌ أقلّ ما يُقَال عنه -بالنسبة لي- أنه “مخيّب للآمال”. كنتُ قد انتظرت هذه اللحظة بصبر…
by Jane Taylor In this photo essay, writer and photographer Jane Taylor reflects on her many visits to Petra from the 1970s onward, which in turn contributed to books including Petra (1993, 2005) and Petra and the Lost Kingdom of the Nabataeans (2001). Something of her personal journey of discovery is told through encounters with…
This written interview is part of a new series we are launching on Insights: “Ask A Scholar,” through which we hope to highlight the personal experiences of fellows and other affiliated researchers. The below conversation, with former Bikai and de Vries fellow and Islamic Baydha director Micaela Sinibaldi, Ph.D., took place by email in November, 2020….
This written interview is part of a new series we are launching on Insights, called “Ask A Scholar,” through which we hope to highlight the personal experiences of fellows and other affiliated researchers. The below conversation, with ACOR-CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow Morgen Chalmiers, who is in residence at ACOR during fall 2020, took place by email…
by Blaine Pope, Ph.D. Since I traveled to Jordan for the first time, for the January 2020 ACOR-CAORC Faculty Development Seminar “Sustainability at the Margins,” life in the United States, in Jordan, and around the world has changed noticeably. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and massive worldwide protests against racism stemming from the Black…
ACOR Proudly Presents:“Heritage vs. Development: The Bayt Ras Tomb Project 2017–2019”An Online Lecture by Jehad Haron on September 29, 2020 About the Lecture: In November 2016, a Roman-era tomb was discovered in the town of Bayt Ras, Irbid, by a team working to dig a sewage line in the area. In 2017, USAID SCHEP worked…