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Welcome to Insights! Long our quarterly e-update, beginning in 2020, Insights is now a revised platform to host all of ACOR’s blog posts, web-based articles, recorded lectures, and other digital products. Everything at Insights is free and open access. Please share widely!

“Sugar, Safi and SCHEP” by Dr. Konstantinos Politis

Feb 3, 2016 Posted in Lecture Tagged with february, konstantinos politis, lecture, politis, safi, SCHEP, Sugar

Sugarcane factory in Ghor es-Safi, photo K. Politis

Dr. Konstantinos PolitisHellenic Society for Near Eastern Studies & ACOR-USAID-SCHEP Grantee Rescheduled due to snow; new date:Wednesday 3 February 20166:00 pm @ ACORReception to Follow. The USAID Sustainable Cultural Heritage through Engagement of Local Communities Project (SCHEP) invites you to a public lecture on Wednesday 3 February 2016 at 6 pm at ACOR in Amman….

When Bread Is More than Just Bread

Feb 2, 2016 Posted in CAORC, Research Tagged with ACOR, Amman, bread, CAORC Fellowship, Fellows, food security, political science, research

New Compression Shelving

Jan 28, 2016 Posted in Library, Life@ACOR Tagged with compression shelving, donation, pro bono

Transforming the ACOR Library, thanks to special donations from the Roger S. Boraas Library Support Fund, other donors, and ACOR team work! Thanks to donors, this year ACOR was able to realize a long-held dream to improve our Library by installing movable compression shelving in the Lower Library. In 2006 Roger S. Boraas,[*] one of…

The Women of the TWLCRM

Jan 24, 2016 Posted in TWLCRM Tagged with ACOR, Cultural Heritage, Feature, Petra, Photography, TWLCRM, Women

A Kinder, Greener Black Desert—An ACOR Video Lecture by Leading Prehistorian Gary Rollefson

Jan 5, 2016 Posted in VideoLectures Tagged with Archaeology, black desert, Fellows, gary rollefson, Jordan, lecture recording, october, research, rollefson, video lecture

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José Ciro Martínez

Dec 24, 2015 Posted in CAORC, Fellows, Profile

José Ciro Martínez, 2015–2016 CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellow José Ciro Martínez is a pre-doctorate Fellow at ACOR conducting research in Jordan until December 2015. He is completing his Ph.D. in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. Before his ACOR-CAORC fellowship, he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship that gave him the opportunity…

The Distinguished Career of ACOR Chef Mohammed Adawi

Dec 21, 2015 Posted in Life@ACOR Tagged with ACOR, Career, Feature, Life at ACOR, Staff Profile

“Excavations of the Royal Palace of Machaerus” by Dr. Győző Vörös

Dec 16, 2015 Posted in Lecture Tagged with Archaeology, december, excavation, gyozo voros, lecture, machaerus, recent, voros

Excavations at the Fortified Royal Palace of Machaerus Overlooking the Dead Sea Dr. Győző Vörös Hungarian Academy of Arts Wednesday 16 December 2015 at 6:00 p.m. Reception to Follow About the Lecture Dr. Vörös will provide an illustrated lecture outlining the work of the Hungarian Machaerus Research Project as well as background about previous excavation…

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…

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