Calls for Submissions

Al-Omran Magazine
Call for Writers
The Editing Board of the Al-Omran Magazine is pleased to call upon all thinkers to contribute articles of 1000 words in either Arabic or English, which deal with the concept of  Omran–politically, economically, socially, Islamicaly and internationally, in addition to the role of the Muslims in the West and their contributions to the global development to humanity. Al-Omran Magazine inspired by the great scholar Ibn-Khaldun (732-808AH) (1332-1406), and his concept of Al-Omran. We render Al-Omran the following intersecting meanings: establishment, cooperation, cultivation, and stewardship. It is sympathetic cooperation, tempered rationality, and trust in the moral depth of human endeavor. The Al-Omran approach entrusts human agents with coalescing virtuous efforts for the continuous development of a civilized order that justly manages by being mindful of the laws of human existence. Submissions should be sent by email to the Editor in-Chief: Dr.Osama Kadi Okadi@Rogers.com; http://www.mesa.arizona.edu/publications/calls.htm.

Arab Media & Society
Open Call for Submissions
Arab Media & Society (www.arabmediasociety.org) aims to be the primary reference for understanding the role of media in shaping Arab societies and the broader Muslim world.  Whether you are established in your field or a graduate student with new insights on the contemporary Middle East, Arab Media & Society is the right place to publish cutting-edge research on some of the most crucial social phenomena of the modern era, including: Reception and Consumption Studies, History of Media, Media & Religion, Women in Media, Discourses on the Body, Visual Culture, Youth Culture, Media Ethnography, Media and Education, Media and Censorship, Information Technology Economics, Arab Journalism, Media and Conflict, Public Diplomacy, Blogging, Video Clips, Reality TV, Musalsals, Arab Comedy and more.

We welcome submissions for peer review articles, book reviews and conference reports from academics of all disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, political science, media and film studies, history, and sociology. We are looking for rigorous and innovative research which reflects on the role media play in shaping Arab societies and the broader Muslim World.

Our editorial board is comprised of some of the most respected experts in the field bringing a diverse range of interests to the anonymous peer review process which we provide.  Unlike print-only journals that sometimes require months to publish your work, our editorial board can respond quickly to get your work published early as possible. Our ongoing association with the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College Oxford and the American University in Cairo ensures that we are credible, reliable and valued. When published, your work will be clearly marked as peer-review content, retained permanently in a peer review folder on the site and on the Internet Archive.  And for academics accustomed to reading your work on paper, there will always be a pdf file for them to download and print.

Being an online journal, we can publish far more illustrative material than print journals with a minimum of fuss—including images, sound files, or video, copyright permitting.  The technology and economics of print journals obviously preclude the publication of such materials. As an academic you will want colleagues and students to read your work.  They can access Arab Media & Society anytime online for free. Print-only journals are far less readily available to researchers around the world. Consequently, you can rest assured that in Arab Media & Society your work is available to the widest audience possible at no cost to readers anywhere.  
In addition we can keep you updated on how your article is being read and used. With Google Analytics we can tell you exactly how many unique views your article is getting and how long viewers spend reading it.  Also, we are developing citation links through Google. Finally, the Internet allows you to interact with readers.  When your work is published, readers can add comments and ask questions beneath your article. Not only does this show that your work is being read, it can also help further your research.

How to Contribute-Send your work along with an abstract of no longer than half a page, to: Will Ward, managing editor, at ams.auc@gmail.com  or at Arab Media & Society c/o Center for Television Journalism (114), The American University in Cairo, 113 Sharia Kasr El Aini, Cairo 11511 Egypt. Submissions should be no longer than 8,000 words, including footnotes, and should ideally conform to The Chicago Manual of Style.

Collection études iraniennes
Iranian Studies Book Series in French
Les Presses de l'Université Laval is pleased to announce a new book series: Collection études iraniennes. Submissions of scholarly manuscripts in French are invited on all topics related to Iran history, culture and society. Les Presses de l'Université Laval (www.pulaval.com) is the premier French-language scholarly publisher in North America, distributed in France and throughout the francophone world. Please direct all queries and submissions to: Richard Foltz, Directeur, Collection études iraniennes, Dépt. des sciences de la religion, Université Concordia, 1455 de Maisonneuve O., R-302 Montréal (Qc) H3G 1M8 Canada (rfoltz@alcor.concordia.ca). No deadline listed.

Comparative Literature Studies
Special issue call: Literary Forms and Human Rights
This thematic issue of Comparative Literature Studies guest edited by Sophia A. McClennen (sam50@psu.ed) and Joseph R. Slaughter (jrs272@columbia.edu) explores the relationship between literary forms and human rights.  The editors seek essays that offer comparative perspectives on how human rights discourse and literary forms are interrelated.  Recent literary criticism has begun to underscore some of the historical, formal, and ideological intersections of human rights and the humanities. For this special issue of Comparative Literature Studies, we seek innovative essays that explore the relationships between forms of storytelling, literary representation, cultural narratives, and human rights (understood as law, discourse, and/or practice). Issue to appear Fall 2008. Please send inquiries, questions or comments at any time to either of the editors.

Manuscript specifics: Articles should not exceed 9,000 words. All manuscripts should follow the guidelines for scholarly writing set forth in the Chicago Manual of Style, especially chapter two, "Manuscript Preparation and Manuscript Editing," sections 2.1 962.46.
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In preparing notes, authors should use "endnote style". CLS does not use the "Works Cited" style. All quotes should be in both the original language and in English translation, and for the sake of readability we request that you use a 12-point font, double-spaced. CLS does not publish discursive footnotes or general acknowledgement footnotes. For the former, authors should either place the argument in the text of the piece, or eliminate it. For more on CLS, visit: http://www.cl-studies.org/Submissions.html. Submissions are due to the editors: February15, 2008.

Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim life
The editors of a new refereed academic journal called Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life are inviting submissions. Scholars working on topics on contemporary Islam should consider submitting articles. Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim life is published by the internationally known academic publisher Springer. The first issue will appear in 2007, both online and in print.

The importance of studying and understanding Islam and Muslims from a social scientific perspective seems more relevant today than ever. Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim life offers a platform for discussion on contemporary aspects of Islam and Muslims. We encourage new ideas, a scholarly discussion of fieldwork experiences, challenging views, and different methodological and theoretical approaches to Muslim life. The journal takes an interdisciplinary approach that benefits from a cross-cultural perspective. Its focus is on questions concerning the presence of Muslim communities in different societies, and the continuing active role that Islam plays in the lives of all Muslims. Founding Editor: Dr. Gabriele Marranci (g.marranci@abdn.ac.uk) and Co-Editor: Fadwa El-Guindi (contemporaryIslam@qu.edu.ga). For information, visit: www.springer.com/journal/11562.

Cultural Critique
Cultural Critique’s commitment to cultural and intellectual debate and discussion is bolstered by the regular inclusion of book reviews of both new and not-so-new books. Generally, books reviewed will have appeared within the past three years, although reviews of older books that are emerging or re-emerging in intellectual debates are also welcome. Moreover, Cultural Critique sees itself as having the responsibility to devote space to authors that may not otherwise be reviewed in an academic context. We especially encourage reviews of two or three related academic book publications. For Cultural Critique’s special issues, book reviews should share the issue’s thematic focus. Please contact Stephen Groening for submission guidelines at cultcrit@umn.edu or Cultural Critique,235 Nicholson Hall, 216 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis MN 55455 (612 626-8940).

Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues in 2008
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
New Journal
The Editor is currently seeking submissions for the first volume of this journal. Edited by: Professor James S. Pounder, Abu Dhabi University and Dr Matthew Clarke, University of Hong Kong. Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss, analyze and shape the social, economic and political terrain of the Middle East. Multidisciplinary in scope, the journal will provide theory-based research, and both quantitative and qualitative empirical studies on contemporary issues and debates. The journal will also combine a region-specific orientation with a comparative approach. Each paper is reviewed by the editors and, if it is judged suitable for this publication, it is then sent to two referees for double blind peer review. Based on their recommendations, the editor then decides whether the paper should be accepted as it is, revised or rejected.

Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues publishes: research papers by new and established scholars who want to add depth of understanding about the culture, heritage and intricacies of the Middle East; practice-based studies or observations; and re views of books and other scholarly works in print, multimedia and on the web. Submissions should be sent by post or email to the Editors: Professor James S. Pounder, Professor of Management, Director of Graduate Programs, College of Business Administration, The Abu Dhabi University, P.O. Box 59911, Abu Dhabi UAE (james.pounder@adu.ac.ae) or Dr Matthew Clarke, H.O.C. 122, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Pokfoulam, Hong Kong (mclarke@hkucc.hku.hk). For more information, visit: www.emeraldinsight.com/ebs.htm.

genre
Special issue call: “Arrivals and Departures”
Call for submissions for genre, an International, Interdisciplinary Journal of Literature and the Arts, for an issue on Arrivals and Departures, the same theme as that of the 2008 conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (http://www.acla.org/acla2008/) to be hosted by California State University, Long Beach. We welcome submissions of papers on a wide range of topics pertaining to figurative, literal, emotional, intellectual, and all manner of journeys and trajectories involving the dialectic of motion and stillness, including aborted arrivals and failed departures. From traditional travel narratives to accounts of Exiles’ return, reverse migration, and diaspora, the theme is open to a full spectrum of possibilities of interest to comparatists.
Send an explanatory email with your institutional affiliation and your full mailing address to the editor at: genrejournal@gmail.com, and attach the essay (word document or PDF file) you would like to submit to that email. Please include a 200-word abstract to be published along with your paper.

genre has been affiliated to the Department of Comparative World Literature and Classics at California State University, Long Beach, since the late sixties. It publishes issues pertaining to the theme of the annual departmental conference. For more details, please visit the genre website (being updated) at: http://www.csulb.edu/depts/complit/genre/

Submission Guidelines
All papers should follow the MLA (Modern Language Association of America) style and obey the following guidelines:
1- Include parenthetical sources and a works cited but no footnotes or endnotes. IF YOU MUST use endnotes, keep those to a minimum, format them like you do normal text, and place them after the paper and immediately before the works cited.
2- Italicize titles of books and journals.
3- Articles should be between 4000 and 5000 words in length. They should be double-spaced and use a 12 point font throughout.
4- All passages not originally in English should be translated into English in the endnotes.
5. Make sure you obtain reprint permissions of images you want to include (keep those to a minimum). Otherwise, please do not send them.

Timelines: We want to publish the issue in January 2009. When we send you the recommendations for changes and corrections, please make sure to effect those and to return the paper as promptly as possible, within six weeks at the most. Contributors will receive two free copies of the journal. Deadline for receipt of papers (size limit: 5000 words): April 15, 2008.

Identity Theory
(IdentityTheory.com), a literary/cultural web journal, is developing a film section and is now seeking reviewers to cover theatrical releases and new DVDs. IDT also plans to include reviews of older titles, as long as some context (historical or genre-related) is provided and the overdone classics are avoided. Reviews of older films newly appearing on DVD, as well as literary-related films and rediscovered classics, are highly desired. Send a pitch of your idea, your resume, and a writing sample to: Matthew Sorrento (film@identitytheory.com).

Institut des belles-lettres arabes (IBLA)
As it approaches its seventieth anniversary, IBLA the review of the Institut des belles-lettres arabes (Tunis), encourages the submission of papers in French, English or Arabic concerning Tunisia, the Maghreb or the wider Arab world in any literary or social science discipline. Articles (length: around 45,000 characters) can also be in the form of reviews of film, theatre, or books. Articles can be sent to Kmar Bendana or David Bond at the following addresses: kmar.bendana@laposte.net; davidmbond@yahoo.com; and
ibla@gnet.tn. For information, contact: Institut des belles-lettres arabes
12, rue Jamaa al-Haoua 1008 TUNIS (www.iblatunis.org).

International Relations - Students Perspectives
International Relations - Students Perspectives is dedicated to publish outstanding students papers from all over the world on International Relations. It is further aiming at providing students with a platform to communicate and share ideas with "Streitbar", a forum for discussion papers. The journal is now online with its 3rd issue: www.irjournal.net. Contributions (9,000 words for articles, 5,000 words for discussion pieces) are always welcome! Submissions should be sent to: C.Beyer@hull.ac.uk. Students interested in reviewing articles should also contact this email address.

On-line Iranian Anthropological and Documentary Film Archive and Database
Seeking Submissions
Society for Iranian Anthropology, SIRA (www.anthropology-iran.org) with the collaboration of Ethnodoc create jointly a new online database and archive for Iranian anthropological and documentary films. We will accept anthropological and documentary films (regarding Iran) made by academic scholars and independent filmmakers trained in anthropology and cinematography. But films interesting for the subject and originality are also welcome. Films received by SIRA will be included in the Ethnodoc film archive on the website www.ethnodoc.org and will be added to the Visualanthropology.net newsletter. The online database is searchable. For more information about submitting your film(s) or any other inquiries, please contact: Dr. P. Khosronejad, Junior Research Fellow at The Middle East Centre, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford (pedram.khosronejad@sant.ox.ac.uk).

The Journal of Associated Graduates in Near Eastern Studies
Open Call for Submissions
The Journal of Associated Graduates in Near Eastern Studies (JAGNES) is located in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Contributors and editors of JAGNES are dedicated to the goal of increased interaction and cooperation among Near Eastern scholars by presenting cutting-edge research from graduate students across the country.

In line with this goal, the Journal includes research in all of the related Near Eastern disciplines, which include but are not limited to: Arabic, Islamic Studies, Persian, Hebrew, Biblical and Judaic Studies, Turkish, Cuneiform (Assyriology and Sumerology), Egyptology, Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Iranian Studies,  Hittitology, Comparative Semitics, Syro-Palestinian Art and Archaeology, and Mesopotamian Art and Archaeology.

We are currently accepting submissions from graduate and postdoctoral students in all fields related to the Near and Middle East - from the contemporary to the ancient.  This is an excellent opportunity for graduate students to publish.  Please send submissions to: editors@jagnes.com. For publication guidelines, visit: www.jagnes.com/subm.html.

THE JOURNAL OF CENTRAL ASIAN AND CAUCASIAN STUDIES
Article submissions are invited for the second issue of 2006. English and Turkish (including all Turkic languages) are the primary language of the journal, but from time to time it publishes articles in German languages. Contributions may be submitted electronically by way of Microsoft Word attachments (RTF) to: slaciner@comu.edu.tr. The Journal of Central Asian and Caucasian Studies is a biannual journal published by Ankara-based International Strategic Research Organization (ISRO – USAK). Inquiries and correspondences may be addressed to OAKA, Suslu Sokak, No: 2, Mebusevleri, Tandogan, Ankara, 06000 Turkey.

The Journal of Middle Eastern & North African Intellectual & Cultural Studies
Call for submissions
Article submissions are invited for the second issue of 2005. Discussions of all aspects of cultural and intellectual studies, and in relation to all historical periods since the rise of Islam, are invited. English is the primary language of the journal, but from time to time it will publish original articles in one or another of the indigenous languages of the Middle East and North Africa (e.g., Arabic, Turkish, Persian) or in European languages other than English, and it will accompany these with full English translations. Contributions may be submitted electronically by way of Microsoft Word attachments. They should be addressed to: estanley@binghamton.edu. Contributors should send copies of articles on a standard, IBM-compatible disk (using Microsoft Word) in the event that an attachment cannot be opened.

Articles are read by the editorial board, including co-editors Ralph M. Coury of Fairfield University (History and Cultural Studies) and R. Kevin Lacey (Chair, Classical and Near Eastern Studies, Director, Middle East and North African Program [MENA], the State University of New York at Binghamton) and by selected outside reviewers.

The Journal of Middle Eastern and North African Intellectual and Cultural Studies is a biannual journal published in association with Binghamton University’s Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies andMENA program, and with Fairfield University’s Office of the Vice-President and College of Arts and Sciences. Inquiries and correspondences may be addressed to Middle East and North Africa Program (MENA), Binghamton University, PO Box 6000, Binghamton NY 13902.

The journal’s special issue on the literature of Tangier is now available. To view articles from this and previous issues, one may go to the Binghamton University website for Middle East & North African Studies and connect to http://mena.binghamton.edu.

The Journal of Middle East and Islamic Studies in Asia (JMEISA)
The Journal of Middle East and Islamic Studies in Asia (JMEISA) is seeking scholarly articles varying in length between 8-15 double spaced pages (250 words per page) on issues and foci not usually covered. Articles in Middle East and Islamic studies from the Asian perspective would be particularly welcome. This includes US-Asia-Middle Eastinternational relations, cultural exchanges, dialogues between civilizations, and cross-cultural studies. JMEISA invites reviews of books published in Asia related to the Middle East and Islamic studies. Please email submissions to: adia@loc.gov. Open deadline.

Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication
Journal Announcement and Call for Papers- New in 2008!
Editors:
Lina Khatib, Royal Holloway, University of London
Tarik Sabry, University of Westminster
Dina Matar, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
John Esposito, Georgetown University

The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication provides a transcultural academic sphere that engages Middle Eastern and Western scholars in a critical dialogue about culture, communication and politics in the Middle East. It also provides a forum for debate on the region's encounters with modernity and the ways in which this is reshaping people's everyday experiences.
MEJCC¹s long-term objective is to provide a vehicle for developing the field of study into communication and culture in the Middle East. The Journal encourages work that reconceptualizes dominant paradigms and theories of communication to take into account local cultural particularities. MEJCC also supports work that challenges the static and suzerain epistemological frameworks through which the Middle East has been represented and perceived.

The Journal provides a platform for diverse and interdisciplinary work, including original research papers from within and outside the Middle East, reviews and review articles, to investigate transformations in communication, culture and politics in the region. Though the focus is on the Middle East, North Africa and the Islamic world, it targets a global readership. Particular interests include but are not limited to: politics and representation; transnational cultures; visual culture; film; broadcasting (radio, television, satellite); print media; material culture; journalism practices; cultural politics; the digital media and cultural practices; media consumption and audiences; popular culture; anthropology and ethnographic research; political economy of the media; gender and sexuality; diaspora, migration and culture; studies of postcolonialism and imperialism; memory studies; space and place; religion; and media regulation. The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication is published by Brill, a leading publisher on Middle Eastern history, art and cultures. MEJCC is a peer-reviewed journal, published twice a year in hard copy and online. The first issue will appear in 2008.

The Journal is currently accepting submissions. Contributions should be original work which has neither been simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere nor published previously. Manuscripts should be submitted in duplicate hard copies, double-spaced throughout (including quotations, notes, bibliography) with notes at the end, and all pages consecutively numbered. The author¹s name, affiliation and contact details (including e-mail and full address) as well a short biography should be supplied on a separate sheet of paper accompanying the manuscript. All submissions should be accompanied by an electronic version on CD-ROM or by email. Articles should be 6000-7000 words long and include an abstract of not more than 150 words that clearly defines the thesis and the sources quoted. Up to five keywords should be included to identify the article. Reviews of films, books, conferences, and cultural events are welcome and should be 1000-1500 words long. Manuscripts should be sent to: Dr. Tarik Sabry, School of Media, Arts and Design, Communication and Media Research Institute, University of Westminster, Northwick Park, Harrow HA1 3TP, United Kingdom (sabryt@wmin.ac.uk). Queries can be addressed to Lina Khatib (lina.khatib@rhul.ac.uk), Tarik Sabry (sabryt@wmin.ac.uk), or Dina Matar (dm27@soas.ac.uk).

Modern Language Studies (MLS)
Modern Language Studies (MLS) would like to solicit reviews of significant, intriguing, or unusual primary source materials for upcoming issues. Reviewers must be members of the Northeast Modern Language Association (www.nemla.org) by the time of publication. Reviews of scholarly editions, hypertext/internet literatures, visual culture, popular culture, and, of course, novels, short stories, poetry, plays, films, and creative non-fiction are all welcome. We also welcome reviews that emphasize interdisciplinary approaches or primary sources that cross disciplinary boundaries. Reviews should range from 1000-3000 words. Please provide complete bibliographic information for each reviewed work. Send submissions or inquiries to: mls@susqu.edu. Open deadline.

PEACE REVIEW
Call for Book Reviewers
Peace Review is looking for Book Reviewers for each of its quarterly issues. Our book reviews are generally short (usually 2000 words), although we're also interested in book review essays (of two or more books), which can run 3500 words. The reviews will appear in our Recommended Book section, and thus we're looking for positive reviews (although flaws should obviously also be mentioned, if appropriate). Peace Review is also looking for books to review, in the general category of peace and justice studies. If you have published a book, and are looking for a review, then please send (or have your publisher send) us a copy of the book. For either of the above, send to: Peace Review, c/o Stephen Cole, Book Review Editor, University of San Francisco, University Center 563, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco CA 94117.

Radical History Review
Special Issue 105 (Fall 2009): The Iranian Revolution Turns 30

Editors: Nasrin Rahimieh, Ervand Abrahamian, Behrooz, Ghamari, Ahmad Sadri, Mansour Bonakdarian

The Radical History Review is soliciting submissions for the special issue of the journal marking the 30th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79. Although the editors of this issue do not consider “anniversaries” as the most meaningful way of measuring historical time and developments--socially, politically, intellectually, and culturally--, this special issue of the RHR offers an opportunity to explore and consider the domestic and global significance, impact, and ramifications of the Iranian Revolution at a time when Iran is again increasingly capturing the news headlines around the world and discussed as a “problem” by the governments in the
United States, Western Europe, and Israel, while there is talk of a “second cultural revolution” in the Islamic Republic of Iran by observers both inside and outside Iran. Like other revolutions, the Iranian revolution of 1979 neither was a historical inevitability in its inception nor in its outcome. However, the continued domestic and global significance and impact of the Iranian revolution remain indisputable.

The editors of this special issue of RHR are interested in examining the contingencies and actors that shaped the revolution as well as the consequences of the revolution (domestically, internationally, and transnationally).  We are seeking submissions that specifically, but not exclusively, address the following topics:

1.      Retrospective examination of the participation of different social groups in the revolutionary movement, such as workers, peasants, tribes, women, religious and/or ethnic minorities, students, and the clergy.
2.      Postrevolutionary social movements, such as the civil rights, human rights, student, women’s, and labor movements.
3.      The role of the Marxist Left or Liberals in the revolution and its aftermath.
4.      The ideological significance of Islam in the revolutionary mobilization and in the postrevolutionary power struggle.
5.      The Iranian revolution in the context of the Cold War national liberation movements.
6.      The significance of the Revolution in the Muslim world.
7.      The gendered character of the Revolution and the postrevolutionary transformation of gender relations and the broad array of debates on gender rights.
8.      State politics in postrevolutionary Iran.
9.      Hermeneutical Islam and Islamic sources of political authority.
10.     The postrevolutionary institutional and doctrinal transformations of Shi`ism.
11.     US-Iranian relations and the emergence of a new “Cold War,” as well as other aspects of Iran’s international relations.
12.     Revolutionary arts, media, music, literature, poetry, stamps, posters, etc., and the cultural
transformations and postrevolutionary developments in artistic, musical, and literary expressions and productions.
13.     Iranian exilic communities and diasporic politics.
14.     Revolutionary, anti-revolutionary, and other modes
of political-historical commemoration (e.g., including the Iranian-Armenian remembrance of the “Armenian Genocide”).

We particularly encourage submissions that probe new areas of inquiry and employ innovative heuristic and analytical methodologies. In addition to regular feature articles, RHR publishes articles in the Reflections, Interventions, Curated Spaces, Roundtables, Interviews, and Reviews sections of the journal. We highly encourage proposed Reviews essays on relevant art or museum exhibits, films, and performances, in addition to Reviews of seminal publications in the field.

RHR also encourages prospective authors to include images with their submissions. Authors are responsible for obtaining copyright permissions (if required) for images that are not considered “public domain.”

Submissions are due by April 15, 2008, and should be received electronically as Microsoft Word attachment files, sent to rhr@igc.org with "Issue 105 submission" in the subject line. For artwork, please send images as high-resolution digital files (each image as a separate file). For preliminary e-mail inquiries, please include "Issue 105" in the subject line. Articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 105 of thea Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in Fall 2009.

For submission guidelines and formatting, please visit:
http://www.dukeupress.edu/journals/j_submission_guidelines.php?issn=0163-6545. Email: rhr@igc.org; website: chnm.gmu.edu/rhr/rhr.htm.

Scientific Journals International (SJI)
Call for papers, reviewers and Editorial-Advisory Board members

Every researcher, writer or artist deserves a fair consideration to be published. Scientific Journals International (SJI) provides an efficient forum for publishing research and creative work from all disciplines. SJI has assembled an extensive and prestigious Editorial and Advisory Board (www.scientificjournals.org/editorial_board.htm).

This initiative is driven by an overriding passion to assist researchers, writers and artists to cope with the "publish or perish" reality in the academia. According to several surveys, a large majority of authors and researchers cite slow review process and
publication delays in the current system as a major obstacle to their publishing objectives. Many have also expressed concerns about the fairness and integrity of the peer review process in traditional scholarly publishing. Some scholars have argued that there is a need to liberate the publication process for broader and fairer access.

Scientific Journals International (SJI) is the first global initiative that intends to accomplish this objective. We sincerely believe that researchers, writers and artists who have devoted months or years to a research/creative project, should not be shut out of the publication world simply because they did not follow some procedural or stylistic rules and guidelines or because their work did not fit in. All traditional journals have very rigid stylistic or procedural policies that unduly create artificial barriers and in effect retard innovation and creativity.

Scientific Journals International (SJI) maintains minimal procedural and stylistic rules, and accepts papers that follow any style manual such as APA, MLA, Chicago, etc. A fair peer-reviewed evaluation system is used to select papers for publication. SJI maintains a rapid electronic submission, review and publication process. Additionally, we do not set the same limitations on the length of the article as other traditional and online journals do. Our capability for perpetual future accessibility and preservation is also extremely valuable to both authors and readers.

Our manuscript submission guidelines can be found at www.scientificjournals.org/submission.htm. Application form for Reviewers and Editorial Advisory Board can be found at www.scientificjournals.org/wanted.htm.
Current issues can be found at www.scientificjournals.org/current_issue.htm.

St. John's University Humanities Review
Cultural Diversity in Contemporary Writing
The St. John's University Humanities Review is seeking well written articles between 8-15 double spaced pages for publication in the journal. We are seeking papers with a wide range of topics and are especially looking for very specific topics that have not been written about extensively already. Contemporary allusions appreciated. Please email submissions to: SJUHumanities@Gmail.com. Open deadline.