Recent news from the Society
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2023 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 in the previous calendar year.
We are pleased to announce our final programme for the 2023 BRISMES Conference 'Ecology, Crisis, and Power in the Middle East'.
Join the BRISMES Outreach & Pedagogy Committee on 14 June for an online panel bringing together queer feminist scholars and activists from the MENA to reflect on Sara Hegazi's political legacy
On 7 June, BRISMES Vice-President Neve Gordon will be in conversation with with Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
BRISMES has signed a joint letter from 51 organisations calling for the release of Dr Salah Soltan, an arbitrarily detained academic in Egypt. The co-signing organisations believe that the Egyptian authorities’ abuse of Dr Soltan, a legal US permanent...
BRISMES has joined a coalition of 104 organisations calling on the United Nations not to endorse or adopt the IHRA working definition of antisemitism
Nominations are invited for the position of BRISMES Secretary and for four vacancies on BRISMES Council. The terms for these positions will be three years (July 2023- July 2026).
We are pleased to share a recording of this online panel which is now available to watch on the BRISMES YouTube channel