A forum for educators and researchers in Middle East Studies

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Call for Papers | Uncertain Futures: Ruptures, Resistance, and the Global Middle East

Submissions are invited for the 2027 BRISMES conference, co-hosted by the School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology at Newcastle University from 22 to 24 June 2027.

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What We Do

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

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Journal

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

Needs that Bind: Materializing Nationality in Post-Ottoman Regimes (Orçun Can Okan)

Needs That Bind reconsiders the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire and the construction of new regimes in the decade after World War I, to understand the...

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Foreign Policy and the Institutional Evolution of Rojavayê Kurdistan (2011–Present) (Marianna Charountaki)

This policy paper examines the evolution of Rojavayê Kurdistan [Western Kurdistan – commonly referred to as (Democratic Self-Governance of) Rojava]...

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Gaza and the Colonial Right to Self-defence: Legal Absurdities and the Circular Reasoning of Violence (Passent Moussa & Colin Samson)

This article challenges the framing of 7 October as a standalone event, critically examines Israel's invocation of the "right to self-defence," and argues...

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Colloquial Arabic as a decolonial language: the case of linguistic hybridity in Jordanian satirical writing (Yousef Barahmeh)

In Arabic language, a distinction is often made between Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic, fuṣḥā (formal language) and ʿāmmiyya (colloquial...

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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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