Recent news from the Society
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2022 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.
On Wednesday 22 June, BRISMES will be hosting an online roundtable on Alaa Abd El-Fattah's recently published book 'You Have Not Yet Been Defeated'.
Who writes Palestinian history, in the present, and down to the present? How is it written and practiced, in and outside Europe, and what for? On 4 May 2022, the BRISMES Outreach and Pedagogy Subcommittee hosted a roundtable on the topic of 'Teaching...
On 27 May, the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom wrote to the General Director of the Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation and to the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna to express our serious and urgent concern regarding the cancellation...
On 18 May 2022, BRISMES Council wrote to the Egyptian and UK governments to express our serious and urgent concern regarding the arrest and detention of Alaa ‘Abd El-Fattah and to call for his immediate release.
The Trustees of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies are deeply saddened by the passing of our friend and President, Haleh Afshar, on May 12 after a long struggle with cancer. She is survived by her husband, Maurice Dodson, and their son and...
We are hoping to expand the Committee on Academic Freedom and the Communications Committee, and are seeking nominations for these elected positions.
On 6 April, the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom wrote to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet to protest against Israeli violations of Palestinian academic freedom