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.
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Recent news from the Society
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
2022 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize winners announced
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.
Event | Alaa Abd El-Fattah's 'You Have Not Yet Been Defeated'
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'.
Watch recording of 'Teaching Palestine in the Present'
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...
Letter regarding the cancellation of a talk by Dr Walaa Alqaisiya
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...
Letters regarding the arrest and detention of Alaa ‘Abd El-Fattah
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.