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2026 BRISMES Conference: Registration for Non-presenting Delegates Open!

We are pleased to announce that registration for non-speaking delegates for the 2026 BRISMES conference “War, Empire and Sabotage in an Age of Genocide” taking place at SOAS University of London from 23 to 35 June is now open.

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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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Membership of BRISMES is open to those professionally and/or personally interested in the MENA region

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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

Rolling the dice: Capitalism, trafficking and speculation across the Western Mediterranean (José Ciro Martínez)

This paper ruminates alongside two hashish traffickers whose lives span the Strait of Gibraltar in light of their simultaneous critique and embrace of...

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Unmaking Mother, Wife, and Chaste Woman: Subverted Femininities in Theodosia Sophroniades’ Narratives (Seda İzmirli Karamanlı)

This article foregrounds Theodosia Sophroniades, a half-Circassian Greek-Orthodox author, journalist, and interpreter during the Hamidian era (1876–1908)....

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Under the palm trees: Social and environmental considerations around the expansion of Medjool dates in the Southern Jordan Valley (Livia Perosino)

The article analyses the agricultural transformation of the Jordan Valley (JV). The specific socio-technical imaginary that has driven this transformation...

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Transregional Agency and Politics in Defining the ‘Middle East’: Unpacking Critique and Cartography Through Syrian–Turkish Borderlands (Jonas Nabbe & Ward Vloeberghs)

The term ‘Middle East’ has been contested ever since its emergence in 1902. Although it has acquired a fairly mainstream delimitation, this conception...

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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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