Recent news from the Society
We are delighted to announce that Professor Nadje Al-Ali will give the 2022 BRISMES Annual Lecture. The title of the lecture will be Feminist Dilemmas and Ambivalences: Gendered and queer perspectives on the Middle East.
We are seeking a part-time Conference Coordinator to provide administration for the BRISMES Annual Conference 2023. The Conference Coordinator will work closely with Neve Gordon, the BRISMES Vice President, the BRISMES Manager and the Conference Committee....
On Wednesday 19 October, the BRISMES Outreach & Pedagogy Committee, will host this panel discussing contemporary Arabic literature and literary translation published in the last dozen years, particularly following the onset of the ‘Arab Spring’.
This event, organised by BRISMES and the Balfour Project, is an opportunity for postgraduate students (and final year undergraduate students) who have already read about the Balfour Project Peace Advocacy Fellowship, to meet the team, learn about the...
On 24 August, the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom wrote to the Vice-Chancellor of University of Leeds and to the UK government to express our alarm at the conviction and jailing of University of Leeds PhD student Salma al-Shehab. We are appalled...
We have written to LSE and the University of Edinburgh to urge them to clarify and restate their commitment to academic freedom in light of their partnerships with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) whose annual conference,...
On 9 August, the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom wrote to Diaa Rashwan, Coordinator of the National Dialogue in Egypt, to express our deep concern about the ongoing detention of five Egyptian scholars.
It was with great pleasure that we awarded Professor Nicola Pratt the BRISMES Award for Services to Middle Eastern Studies at our 2022 Annual Conference in St Andrews.