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The third edition of the International Journal of Levant Studies contains 11 scientific articles and reviews by specialists both within Romania and abroad.
The Journal’s Scientific Board is comprised of:
Chair
Emil Constantinescu, President of the Scientific Council of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization
Members
Winston P. Nagan, Chairman, Board of Trustees, World Academy of Art & Science; Director, Institute for Human Rights, Peace and Development, University of Florida, United States
Răzvan Theodorescu, Vice-president of the Romanian Academy
James Gelvin, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Anna Sapir Abulafia, Professor of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Martin Tamcke, Professor of Ecumenical Theology, Oriental Church and Mission History, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany
Ora Limor, Professor of Medieval History and conversion literature, The Open University of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel
Dan Grigorescu, Emeritus Professor of the University of Bucharest, Scientific Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization.
Editor-in-chief
Cătălin-Ștefan Popa
Articles:
► Fadwa El Guindi, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) / the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization: Tears of Civilizational Identity: Egypt’s Emergent Paradigm for Global Cultural Diplomacy
► James Gelvin, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA): Becoming Saudi Arabia
►Nur Köprülü, Near East University, Nicosia: Parsing the reflections of the 2011 Uprisings on democracy and identity in the Arab Middle East: A Retrospective
► Pablo Argárate, “Karl Franzens” University of Graz: Monastic Egypt by the End of the Fourth Century: Reading the Historia Lausiaca
► Antonio Pio Di Cosmo, Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome: Justinian and sexual diseases. Hagiography and prophylaxis in Early Byzantium
► Piotr Żelazko, Studium Theologicum Salesianum, Jerusalem: The 175th Anniversary of the Re-establishment of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem
► Adrian Bărbieru, Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest: The Levant for Valeriu Anania: A journey of thought and spiritual fulfilment
► Antoaneta Olteanu, University of Bucharest: Representations of space in folk beliefs: The Otherworld
► Mihai-Bogdan Marian, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization, Bucharest: About the Thracians and Thracology: A short foray
► Constantin Haită, Daniel Iosif, Ștefan Marincea, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization, Bucharest: GIS project for the spatial analysis of the prehistoric occupations in the Casimcea Valley Basin
Review:
► Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. Review by Liviu Iancu, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization, Bucharest
