Recent news from the Society
Following the refusal of the University of St Andrews to respond to our letter about the possible role of a university donor in the dismissal of Rector Stella Maris, we have now submitted a Freedom of Information request to seek answers.
Marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, BRISMES invites members and non-members to attend the 2024 BRISMES Annual Lecture Witness to Genocide - In Conversation with Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah.
The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom has written to UUK to follow up on the recent expert statement by United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, Gina Romero, in which she identifies systematic...
The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) Committee on Academic Freedom welcomes the new statement by Gina Romero, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association.
Over the past year, BRISMES has observed a troubling trend: health and safety regulations, originally designed to protect workers from injury or illness and established as fundamental rights through decades of union campaigning,1 are now being misused...
Submissions for the 2025 BRISMES conference, hosted by the School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology at Newcastle University, are now open. Please take a look at our call for papers and submit an abstract for an individual presentation, panel and/or...
The Committee for Academic Freedom of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) has requested that the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office urgently lobby the Egyptian government for the immediate and unconditional release...
BRISMES and SeSaMO have written to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in relation to the sentencing of writer and activist Alaa ʿAbd El-Fattah, detained for exercising his human rights, including the free, peaceful and democratic manifestation of dissent...