Guest Editors, Jan Nederveen Pieterse of University of California at Santa Barbara and Habibul Haque Khondker of Zayed University, invite papers on the Middle East and 21st century globalization, dealing with the major social, economic, cultural and political issues confronting the world today. Papers on the relationship between the Middle East and the growth regions in Asia, especially, China and India in the context of global economic downturn, will receive particular attention. Papers dealing with migrations and changing identity in the Gulf will be of special interest to the editors. Please submit your paper (5,000 to 10,000 words) electronically in MS Word format, font size 12 to encounters@zu.ac.ae by December 15, 2009.

    Authors should follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, and Webster's Dictionary, 11th edition. The manuscript should be no more than 10,000 words double-spaced, including an abstract of up to 300 words, endnotes, a complete bibliography, and a short biographical summary, including institutional affiliation, recent publications, and current research. All papers published in Encounters will undergo a blind, peer-reviewed process.


Encounters website: http://encounters.zu.ac.ae/index.html