AIMS holds its annual board and business meetings in conjunction with the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting. 2024 is an all-virtual meeting. The AIMS annual business meeting is open to all members and potential members and provides an opportunity for AIMS colleagues to connect and learn more about AIMS’ achievements and initiatives, and includes reports from your Overseas Research Center Directors and more.

AIMS Annual Virtual Business Meeting
Friday, November 15th
2:00pm – 3:00pm (ET)
Zoom: https://aimsnorthafrica-org.zoom.us/j/86553217168?pwd=pgVNYKuXHKoddzUKynwGy97mTl6hqv.1
All members, potential members and interested parties are welcome! There will be a drawing among attendees for a 2025 complementary membership. 

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2024 AIMS Sponsored Panels (3):
Gender Politics in Tunisia Following the Arab Spring
Panel VI-08, On Wednesday, November 13 at 2:30 pm

Gendered Comedy in Algeria: A Panel in Honor of Nadjib Berber, Hadj Miliani, and Ameziane Ferhani
Panel III-17, On Tuesday, November 12 at 11:30 am

The Visual Maghreb
Round Table IV-01 On Tuesday, November 12 at 2:30 pm

2024 Jeanne Jeffers Mrad Graduate Student Virtual Presentation Awards (4):
Pierre Folliet, Yale University
A Mirror for Assia Djebar: On Language Ideology, Colonial Destruction, and the Poetics of Historical Representation in Fantasia and So Vast the Prison
Panel X-15, On Friday, November 15 at 2:30 pm

Ben Jones, Georgetown University
Decolonial Deserts: Revolutionary Environmental Imaginaries in the Writings of Muhammad Qashat
Panel VII-08, On Thursday, November 14 at 11:30 am

Hatim Rachdi, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Tamazgha: Orientations Towards Queer Futures
Forced Displacement, Gender and Vulnerability: SWANA Migrants in Europe
Round Table VII-03, On Thursday, November 14 at 11:30 am

Connie Sjodin, Exeter College
Plastic Elements of the Third World Revolution: Aouchem and the Casablanca Art School
Panel II-12, On Monday, November 11 at 2:30 pm

2024 I William Zartman North African Virtual Presentation Awardee:
Khedija Arfaoui, Independent Researcher
Womens’ Associations in Tunisia Today
Also the AIMS Sponsored Panel: Gender Politics in Tunisia Following the Arab Spring
Panel VI-08, On Wednesday, November 13 at 2:30 pm 

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AIMS nine member Board of Directors serve three year terms. Annually, two are selected from the Institutional Members and one from the general membership. Officers, staff and Overseas Research Center Directors are part of the AIMS steering committee. Past officers and directors are often asked to attend in an advisory capacity.

Current AIMS Board: (through year listed)
2024: Mona Atia, George Washington University
2024: Elizabeth Bishop, Texas State University
2024: Kevin Blankinship, Brigham Young University

2025: Allen Fromherz, Georgia State University
2025: Kristin Hickman, University of Mississippi
2025: Michael Toler, MIT/Libraries

2026: Aomar Boum, University of California, Los Angeles
2026: Adria Lawrence, Johns Hopkins University
2026: Paul Love, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane

Incoming:
2027: George Bajalia, Wesleyan University
2027: Sarah DeMott, Harvard University
2027: Becky Schulthies, Brigham Young University

AIMS Officers, Staff and Advisors:
James Miller, President
Yael Warshel, Vice President
Jacob Mundy, Treasurer
Gwyneth Talley, Secretary
Terry Ryan, AIMS US Director
Robert Parks, CEMA Director
Laryssa Chomiak, CEMAT Director
Jennifer Rasamimanana, TALIM Director
Heidi Wiederkehr, CAORC Director
I. William Zartman, Founding Member