Recent news from the Society
The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom has written to UUK to follow up on the recent expert statement by United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, Gina Romero, in which she identifies systematic...
The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) Committee on Academic Freedom welcomes the new statement by Gina Romero, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association.
Over the past year, BRISMES has observed a troubling trend: health and safety regulations, originally designed to protect workers from injury or illness and established as fundamental rights through decades of union campaigning,1 are now being misused...
Submissions for the 2025 BRISMES conference, hosted by the School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology at Newcastle University, are now open. Please take a look at our call for papers and submit an abstract for an individual presentation, panel and/or...
The Committee for Academic Freedom of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) has requested that the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office urgently lobby the Egyptian government for the immediate and unconditional release...
BRISMES and SeSaMO have written to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in relation to the sentencing of writer and activist Alaa ʿAbd El-Fattah, detained for exercising his human rights, including the free, peaceful and democratic manifestation of dissent...
The Committees on Academic Freedom of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), the Italian Society for Middle East Studies (SeSaMO), and the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) have replied to the Iranian authorities...
Join colleagues from BIAA, BIPS, BISI and CBRL for a conversation on funding opportunities for researchers at the British International Research Institutes (BIRI).