This beautiful mosaic floor adorning a Byzantine-era church at the site of Khirbet et-Tireh near Jerusalem was preserved thanks to support from the J.M. Kaplan Responsive Preservation Initiative. In this essay, Salah Al-Houdalieh, the director of the Khirbet et-Tireh excavation and restoration project, discusses recent efforts, funded by CAORC’s J.M. Kaplan Responsive Preservation Initiative, to conserve and restore mosaic floors from an ancient Byzantine church near Jerusale

It’s fellowship application season! In addition to providing our own fellowships for international research, CAORC supports fellowship and grant programs run by the network of American Overseas Research Centers (ORCs). As specialists in their respective world regions, ORCs provide a superb scholarly infrastructure to visiting researchers, with services including libraries and archives, assistance with research permits, housing, hosting of conferences and collaborations, and m

Director Matthew J. Adams has declared this “The Year of the Library” at the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research! AIAR's library’s electronic facilities will be upgraded completely over the course of the next few months. AIAR staff will be implementing Alma, a new cutting-edge, cloud-based SAAS system developed by the Ex Libris Group, the top global leader in library technology. This software package is already revolutionizing the ILS industry, while in only th

Dorot Director of the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR) Matthew J. Adams has initiated a new program of symposia for the Associate Fellows, with the aim of fostering discourse among the Albright community. This year’s 40 Research, Postdoctoral, and Senior Associate Fellows will participate in one of the year’s two symposia. On October 8, 2015, the Albright held the inaugural symposium. Resident Fellows were encouraged to (and all did) attend, in the e

CAORC, and many of the ORCs, will again be attending the annual Middle East Studies Association (MESA) conference this November 21-24 in Denver, Colorado. Below is a list of panels associated with ORCs: The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) is sponsoring, or has participants on, seven panels: - "Tunisia’s Progress Since the Revolution" (P4066) Saturday, 11/21, 5:30pm - "A Century of Women’s Rights in the MENA: Where Have the Men Gone?" (P4061) Sunday, 11/22, 11am

With great anticipation and excitement, the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem hereby invites applicants for the 2016-2017 academic year. The Albright is the oldest American research center for Ancient Near Eastern Studies in the Middle East. Fellowships are open to students and scholars in Near Eastern studies from prehistory to the Ottoman Period, including the fields of archaeology, anthropology, art history, biblical studies, epigraphy, hist

Those who have stayed in the Garden Apartment (GA) in the southern wing of the Albright campus in Jerusalem may no longer recognize it. We are delighted to announce its completed renovation, and are grateful for the generosity of an anonymous donor (and previous tenant), who felt passionately that the apartment be updated. “The GA is now the nicest apartment on the property!” said Director Matthew J. Adams. “As the Albright moves to modernize, I want this and all future renov

In a bid to better utilize the Albright's ample grounds, preliminary work began this summer on an outdoor archaeological laboratory on the former tennis court, at the eastern edge of the property. In light of Director Matthew Adams' aim to continually improve the experience of the Albright’s Fellows and scholars, and the demand for space for processing large assemblages of archaeological material from excavations, the lab will feature a work area sheltered from sun and rain,