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Upcoming Events:

Job Market Candidates Symposium 2025-2026

The second virtual job market symposium for Arab Ph.D. students who are on the job market in 2025-2026. The symposium will take place on September 12, 2025, at 10 am PST via Zoom.

The agenda is included below:

Date: Friday, September 12, 2025, 10:00 am–3:00pm 

Time Zone: Pacific Time

10:00–10:45am  Panel of Recent JMCs (Chair: Youssef Benzarti)

10:45–11:30am  Session 1: Education & Gender (Chair: Youssef Benzarti)

• 10:45am – Stephanie El Khoury (Arizona State University) Information Bias and Selection of Female Professors

(15 min break)

11:45am–1:15pm  Session 2: Development & Labor (Chair: Sami Bazzi)

• 11:45am – Nadia Ali (Columbia University) Minimum Wages for Skilled Workers

• 12:30pm – Abdelrahman Amer (University of Toronto) Monopsony in Space: Commuting Costs & Labor Market Power

(15 min break)

1:30–3:00pm  Session 3: Environment & Health (Chair: Hani Mansour)

• 1:30pm – Rania Lachhab (UC Berkeley) The Value of Groundwater Storage: Evidence from California’s Kern Water Bank

• 2:15pm – Salpy Kanimian (Rice University) Spatial Disparities, Selection, and Segmentation in Health Insurance

Past Events:

Field Research in Arab Countries

Join us to learn more about opportunities to conduct field research in Arab countries. The event will feature Rema Hanna (Harvard University), Salma Mousa (UCLA), and Adam Osman (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), who will share their experiences conducting research in various Arab countries and engage in a Q&A session with participants.

The event will be held virtually on Friday, November 15, 2024, from 12:30-2:00 PM EST via Zoom. Kindly reach out for the Zoom link.

Job Market Candidates Symposium

The first virtual job market symposium for Arab Ph.D. students who are on the job market in 2024-2025. The symposium will take place on Thursday, September 12, 2024, from 10:45am-3:30pm PST. Please reach out for the zoom link.

The agenda is included below:

Past Events:

Field Research in Arab Countries

Join us to learn more about opportunities to conduct field research in Arab countries. The event will feature Rema Hanna (Harvard University), Salma Mousa (UCLA), and Adam Osman (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), who will share their experiences conducting research in various Arab countries and engage in a Q&A session with participants.

The event will be held virtually on Friday, November 15, 2024, from 12:30-2:00 PM EST via Zoom. Kindly reach out for the Zoom link.

Job Market Candidates Symposium

The first virtual job market symposium for Arab Ph.D. students who are on the job market in 2024-2025. The symposium will take place on Thursday, September 12, 2024, from 10:45am-3:30pm PST. Please reach out for the zoom link.

The agenda is included below: