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We work to encourage and promote interest in Middle East Studies and to raise awareness of the region and how it is connected to other parts of the world, including the UK.

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The British Journal for Middle Eastern Studies (BJMES) publishes research on all aspects of the Middle East

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Browse the latest Calls for Papers, vacancies and other opportunities related to Middle East Studies

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Featured Research

Feminist Silences in the Face of Israel's Genocide Against the Palestinian People: A Call for Decolonial Praxis Against Complicity (Hala Shoman, Ashjan Ajour, Sara Ababneh, Afaf Jabiri, Nicola Pratt, Jemima Repo, Maryam Aldossari)

This jointly-authored article critically examines a troubling silence within feminist academia regarding the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people....

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Urbicide in Syria: A Postcolonial Understanding of Civil War

This book provides an exhaustive analysis of the relationship between violence, urban space, and political subjectivity in Syria. It does so through an...

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"Urbicide and Sectarianization in Syria: The Politics of Space in Damascus and Aleppo” in 'Sectarianism and Civil War in Syria' (ed. Raymond Hinnebusch and Morten Valbjørn)

This chapter investigates the dynamics of sectarianisation in Damascus and Aleppo, Syria’s most important urban centres. Particularly, it seeks to do...

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Defining, operationalising and translating ‘vulnerability’ in humanitarian work in Jordan (Lewis Turner)

‘Vulnerability’ saturates contemporary humanitarian discourse and practice in English. But how is ‘vulnerability’ operationalised and translated...

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Database of Expertise

The Database of Expertise in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies provides a publicly available list of MENA experts with their research and areas of expertise.

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