Recent news from the Society
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2026 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British University between 1 October 2024 and 30 September 2025....
What does intifada actually mean, and why has the slogan "Globalise the Intifada" become the target of increasing state repression in the UK? Join leading scholars and activists for a discussion exploring the history of intifadas and anti-colonial uprisings...
For our next event, we explore the politics of people’s mobilization and the political cleavages that characterize Iranian society to find out how ordinary people in Iran relate to big and small questions alike.
The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies expresses grave concern following reports about the detention of the Global Sumud Flotilla civilian activists, among whom is UK scholar Dr Antonis Vradis, Reader in Geography at the University of St Andrews,...
Neve Gordon (Professor of International Law and Human Rights at QMUL, and former BRISMES Vice-President) has written a blog introducing the recently published expert opinion on the term “intifada” prepared by Abdul Bashid Shaikh (Lecturer in Islamic...
We are pleased to be partnering with MERIP and SeSaMO for a series of events centring Iran. This joint activity aims to maximize our outreach work with the support of MERIP and SeSaMO.
We are pleased to invite all members of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) to attend the 2026 Annual General Meeting (AGM).
SEMOMM, SeSaMO, and BRISMES declare their solidarity with François Burgat and express their deep concern regarding the judicial process against him and, more broadly, the threats facing academic freedom and freedom of expression, especially when directed...