The American Institute for Maghrib Studies

Established in 1984, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) is a private, non-profit educational organization that works to facilitate scholarly research on North Africa in all disciplines and to encourage the exchange of information between American and North African scholars. AIMS Annual Membership runs along the calendar year and includes: a subscription to The Journal of North African Studies, eligibility for AIMS Short and Long term Research Grants for American Scholars, Maghrebi Grants for North African Scholars, Tangier Summer Arabic Program, AIMS Graduate Student Association, Annual Conferences and Dissertation Workshops, Semi-annual newsletters. Membership is $40 for students, $55 for individuals. For more information contact Kerry Adams at: aimscmes@email.arizona.edu or go to http://aimsnorthafrica.org.

The Centre of North African Studies (CNAS)

CNAS was founded in 1995 to act as a focus for research and study of North Africa in the United Kingdom. Covering all the countries of the region, from Morocco to Egypt and the Sudan, it promotes academic research and policy-oriented studies on the history, politics, economics and cultures of the region. The CNAS is located at the Centre of International Studies at the University of Cambridge. It has links with a number of research institutes and universities in the United Kingdom, including the Institute of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Durham and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. The Centre also has links in North Africa itself, with, for example, the Al-Akhawayn University in Morocco and the Centre d'études maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT). It also collaborates with the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) over The Journal of North African Studies. Visit www.intstudies.cam.ac.uk/research/cnas/