Recent news from the Society
BRISMES, DAVO, MESA and SeSaMO have sent a joint letter to express our deep concern regarding the cancellation of the symposium “Palestine and Europe” organized by the Chair of Contemporary History of the Arab World at the Collège de France and the...
The deadline for submissions for the 2025 BRISMES Conference Student Paper Prize has been extended and is now 17:00 GMT on Monday, 1 December 2025.
The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom has written to King's College London to express our profound concern about the treatment of Mr Usama Ghanem, a student of International Relations at the university, who has been indefinitely suspended from his...
On 18-19 September 2025, academics and distinguished scholars from universities all over the UK and beyond joined researchers, artists and policymakers at Falmer for the first international conference of the increasingly influential, SARN UK, funded by...
BRISMES warmly invites members and non-members to attend the 2025 BRISMES Annual Lecture Why There is a Need for Palestine Studies? with Professor Ilan Pappé.
The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom has written to Swedish, Belgian and Italian authorities regarding Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish scientist arrested and imprisoned in Iran since 2016, who has just been confirmed alive.
We are excited to share some highlights from the 2025 BRISMES Annual Conference, held from July 1st to 3rd at Newcastle University and hosted by the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology.
The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) expresses its profound concern regarding the response of the National Union of Students (NUS) leadership to the open letter of 11 July 2025, which BRISMES co-signed alongside student representatives...