Recent news from the Society
On 2 February, the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom wrote to the Rt Hon James Cleverly to request that the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office urges Saudi authorities to ensure that the death penalty against academics Awad Al-Qarni, Salman...
The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom expresses its grave concerns about the findings of the investigation into alleged antisemitism in the National Union of Students (NUS) issued by Rebecca Tuck KC.
The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) together with the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) are pleased to announce their third joint mentoring webinar for members.
A recording of this event, which was held online on 19 October 2022, is now available to watch on the BRISMES YouTube channel.
On 17 November 2022, we had the pleasure of hosting Professor Nadje Al-Ali for the 2022 BRISMES Annual Lecture. The lecture was held online and was entitled 'Feminist Dilemmas and Ambivalences: Gendered and queer perspectives on the Middle East'.
Submissions are now open for the 2023 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize. This prize is awarded annually to the writer of the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British University in the previous...
In the past few years BRISMES has undergone a democratization process, while simultaneously struggling for academic freedom in the Middle East, organizing numerous outreach events about topical issues, and launching a series of early career mentoring...
The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom has published an open letter to COP27 attendees to provide essential information regarding the state of academic freedom in Egypt prior to the start of the conference.