Recent news from the Society
The Committee on Academic Freedom has written to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to express our deep concerns about the ongoing detention of Dr Ahmed Al Tohamy, Assistant Professor of Political Sciences in the Faculty of Economic and Political Sciences,...
Marking the 20-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, BRISMES invites members and non-members to attend the 2023 BRISMES Annual Lecture Re-membering Iraq: On the Wounds of War by Sinan Antoon.
BRISMES is delighted and proud to award the 2022 Award for Services to Middle Eastern Studies to Laleh Khalili, who is Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter.
Following the good news that Patrick George Zaki has been released, BRISMES and SeSaMO have written joint letters to the Egyptian government and to EU and Italian authorities to express our deep concerns regarding the ongoing detention of thousands of...
We are delighted to announce that Dr Kaoutar Ghilani and Dr Altea Pericoli have been selected as the winners of the 2023 BRISMES Early Career Development Scholarship.
We express our solidarity with Dr Muriel Asseburg who has come under attack by the Israeli embassy in Berlin following comments that she made in a podcast discussing the situation in the Middle East.
On 6 July, the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom wrote to Professor Hester Bijl, Rector Magnificus of Leiden University, to express our serious and urgent concern regarding the cancellation of the event ‘Apartheid in Palestine, Namibia, and South...
We are happy to report the ratification of the election of new and returning Council members and of the newly elected BRISMES Secretary and Treasurer.