A forum for educators and researchers in Middle East Studies

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2024 BRISMES Annual Conference Programme

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What We Do

We work to encourage and promote interest in Middle East Studies and to raise awareness of the region and how it is connected to other parts of the world, including the UK.

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Membership of BRISMES is open to those professionally and/or personally interested in the MENA region

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Events

We organise events relevant to Middle East Studies and host an online MENA-related Events Calendar

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Journal

The British Journal for Middle Eastern Studies (BJMES) publishes research on all aspects of the Middle East

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Opportunities

Browse the latest Calls for Papers, vacancies and other opportunities related to Middle East Studies

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Advocacy

We advocate on issues that are relevant to our work to encourage and promote interest in Middle East Studies

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Featured Research

Defining, operationalising and translating ‘vulnerability’ in humanitarian work in Jordan (Lewis Turner)

‘Vulnerability’ saturates contemporary humanitarian discourse and practice in English. But how is ‘vulnerability’ operationalised and translated...

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The collective and individual expressions of humour in social media spaces: insights from the socio-political context of Jordan after the 2011 Arab Spring (Yousef Barahmeh)

This article seeks to establish a theoretical framework for considering how the collective and individual expressions of humour in social media spaces...

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Where is Palestine in Critical Terrorism Studies? A roundtable conversation

Our ethical responsibilities as researchers within or related to the study of “terrorism” could not be clearer than in moments when the “terrorism”...

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Israel, Gaza and the Politics of Palliative Peace: Colonialism, (de)mobilization and why the Two-State Solution is made to Fail (Andrea Teti)

This brief piece picks apart selected standard narratives about the war on Gaza which Western media and governments use to describe the unprecedented devastation...

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Database of Expertise

The Database of Expertise in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies provides a publicly available list of MENA experts with their research and areas of expertise.

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