Recent news from the Society
Registration is open for this online event hosted by the BRISMES Outreach & Pedagogy Committee taking place on 27 March. The event is free to attend and open to all, but registration is essential.
The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom and La Società per gli Studi sul Medio Oriente (SeSaMO) have written a joint letter to the President and Rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in order to express our profound concern over the decision...
Registration is open for this online event hosted by the BRISMES Outreach & Pedagogy Committee taking place on 6 March. The event is free to attend and open to all, but registration is essential.
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Volume 51, Issue 1, February 2024 is now available on Taylor & Francis Online. BRISMES Members can access the journal by logging in to 'Your Account' on the BRISMES website and going to the Members' Area.
In September 2023, eight UK-based Syrian academics – Dr Rahaf Aldoughly (Lancaster), Dr Zeina Al Azmeh (Cambridge), Dr Feras Alkabani (Sussex), Dr Azzam Al Kassir (London), Roua Al Taweel (Ulster), Dr Mohammed Ateek (Leicester), Dr Haian Dukhan (Teesside)...
In recent years, there have been growing movements on university campuses calling for the decolonisation of higher education institutions, through which students would be exposed to a wider range of perspectives, particularly those from and rooted in...
The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom has written to the Max Planck Society to express our deep concern about your decision to sever relations with Professor Ghassan Hage, a world-leading anthropologist and social theorist
The BRISMES Graduate Section invites nominations from members for the positions of Co-Presidents of the Graduate Section