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Call for Papers: 2024 BRISMES Annual Conference

Submissions are open for the 2024 BRISMES Annual Conference taking place at Lancaster University from 1-3 July 2024.

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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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We organise events relevant to Middle East Studies and host an online MENA-related Events Calendar

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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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Featured Research

Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine (co-edited by Jeremy Wildeman and M. Muhannad Ayyash)

Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine explores Canada-Palestine relations through a settler colonial lens. The authors argue that there...

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Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire (Burçe Çelik)

The history of communications in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey contradicts the widespread belief that communications is a byproduct of modern capitalism...

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Identity politics and ethnic humour in contemporary Jordan (Yousef Barahmeh)

Following political turbulence and instability in the Middle East, Jordan has become a home for a large number of Palestinians, Iraqis, and Syrians, and...

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Gender Trouble in the Land of the Nile: Transgender Identities, the Judiciary and Islam in Egypt (Nora Noralla)

The paper provides a socio-political context analysis to outline Al-Azhar’s discourse on transgender identities and its influence on law and policy in...

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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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