Recent news from the Society
We are delighted to announce that submissions are open for this annual prize. If you are a student member of BRISMES and registered to present a paper at the conference, please do consider submitting your paper for consideration.
We are delighted to announce that Dr Yasmine Hafez and and Dr Danielle Andréa Krikorian have each been awarded a BRISMES Early Career Development Scholarships. These awards, established in 2021, support activities geared toward strengthening the academic...
BRISMES Council has written to Professor Lisa Roberts (Vice Chancellor, University of Exeter) to express our deep concern about the proposed reductions to academic posts in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, including within the Institute of Arab...
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2026 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British University between 1 October 2024 and 30 September 2025....
What does intifada actually mean, and why has the slogan "Globalise the Intifada" become the target of increasing state repression in the UK? Join leading scholars and activists for a discussion exploring the history of intifadas and anti-colonial uprisings...
For our next event, we explore the politics of people’s mobilization and the political cleavages that characterize Iranian society to find out how ordinary people in Iran relate to big and small questions alike.
The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies expresses grave concern following reports about the detention of the Global Sumud Flotilla civilian activists, among whom is UK scholar Dr Antonis Vradis, Reader in Geography at the University of St Andrews,...
Neve Gordon (Professor of International Law and Human Rights at QMUL, and former BRISMES Vice-President) has written a blog introducing the recently published expert opinion on the term “intifada” prepared by Abdul Bashid Shaikh (Lecturer in Islamic...