News and Events

8 April 2026 Nisreen Abu AlShaikh, Chief Financial Officer and Deputy Director, and Lina Shara’an, Human Resources Manager, conducted an official visit to the Syrian Arab Republic, where they met with the Director General of the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums (DGAM), Dr. Masaoud Badawi, and the Deputy Director, Dr. Lina Kutiefan. During the […]

7 April 2026 ACOR provided training to three employees from the Syrian Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums and four from Jordan’s Department of Antiquities who specialize in museums and object cataloging. The training equipped museum and heritage professionals with practical instruction in using Axiell Collections for the documentation and management of museum collections and

6 April 2026 To strengthen relationships with the Syrian DGAM, ACOR was honored in February to host the new Director General, Dr. Masaoud Badawi, and the Deputy Director, Dr. Lina Kutiefan, for three days of discussions and planning at our center. During their visit on February 19–21, the Director General of Jordan’s Department of Antiquities,

16 March 2026 The next issue of our newsletter (37.2) is now available online! It will be arriving in mailboxes soon. This issue features: Download your copy!

15 February 2025; updated 18 February 2025 (captions) The American Center of Research held a five-day workshop titled “Introduction to Geographic Information Systems for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage” from February 8 to 12, 2026 as a collaborative project between the ACOR and Global Digital Heritage (GDH). The workshop brought together nine participants—four heritage professionals from

3 November 2025; updated 16 November 2025 UPDATE, 16 November 2025: This lecture has been rescheduled for December 14, 2025. ACOR is honored to announce the inaugural Professor Thomas W. Davis Annual Lecture: Prof. Dr. Anas Haj Zeidan, director general of the Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums (DGAM) of the Syrian Arab Republic, will present

5 January 2025 Please note that this lecture is online only. On January 14, 2025, please join us online for a lecture by Linda K. Jacobs, author of the new book Captivating Strangers: Early Arab Immigrants in the United States. In her latest work, Jacobs explores the untold stories of the first Arab immigrants to

21 May 2024 The American Center of Research has added a new recorded lecture to its YouTube channel. In it, Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, an historian of global migration and forced displacement and an assistant professor of global studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, —talks about his newly published book, Empire of Refugees: North

21 February 2024 In November 1980, the Arab League met in Amman, Jordan, for a summit aimed at promoting Arab unity, particularly against Israel and Egypt, which had concluded a peace treaty the previous year. But the summit rapidly fell apart, as members of the Steadfastness and Confrontation Front (جبهة الصمود والتّصدي) — Syria, Algeria, Libya,

Konstantinos Politis I recall first meeting Jonathan Tubb in 1982 after work hours at Peter Dorrell’s office at the Institute of Archaeology in London, where I was conducting my postgraduate studies. They were close friends who would regularly enjoy a drink or two after work reminiscing their excavations in Syria and Iraq. I and others,