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Event | BRISMES-Balfour Project Event: Peace Advocacy Fellowship

This event, organised by BRISMES and the Balfour Project, is an opportunity for postgraduate students (and final year undergraduate students) who have already read about the Balfour Project Peace Advocacy Fellowship, to meet the team, learn about the...

Letters regarding the imprisonment of PhD student Salma al-Shehab

On 24 August, the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom wrote to the Vice-Chancellor of University of Leeds and to the UK government to express our alarm at the conviction and jailing of University of Leeds PhD student Salma al-Shehab. We are appalled...

Letters to LSE and Edinburgh in light of UNFCCC partnerships

We have written to LSE and the University of Edinburgh to urge them to clarify and restate their commitment to academic freedom in light of their partnerships with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) whose annual conference,...

BRISMES writes to Coordinator of National Dialogue in Egypt

On 9 August, the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom wrote to Diaa Rashwan, Coordinator of the National Dialogue in Egypt, to express our deep concern about the ongoing detention of five Egyptian scholars.

Nicola Pratt receives Award for Services to Middle East Studies

It was with great pleasure that we awarded Professor Nicola Pratt the BRISMES Award for Services to Middle Eastern Studies at our 2022 Annual Conference in St Andrews.

2022 Early Career Development Prize Winners

We are delighted to announce that Dr Narges Ansari and Dr Nur Arafeh have been selected as the winners of the 2022 BRISMES Early Career Development Prize.

Submissions open for Conference Student Paper Prize

Submissions are invited for the BRISMES Conference Student Paper Prize. The aim of this prize is to support BRISMES student members in the development of peer-reviewed work. The prize winner will receive £300 and will be mentored through a review process...

BJMES Invites Applications for Role of Assistant Editor

The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies is seeking an assistant editor who can help with the refereeing process for articles relating to the Arab world, and in particular Palestine/Israel