Recent news from the Society
The Academic Freedom Committees of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) and the Germany Middle East Studies Association (DAVO) strongly condemn the Israeli military attack on Birzeit University on 6 January 2026.
BRISMES is seeking to appoint a new Editor, to lead the journal after the stepping down of long-serving editor Professor Lloyd Ridgeon.
BRISMES CAF has written to QMUL to express concern about recent instructions to remove materials described as “pro-Palestine,” “anti-Israel,” or otherwise ‘personal political opinions’ from office doors and campus spaces at QMUL.
BRISMES’ Outreach and Pedagogy Committee is delighted to invite you to its next webinar, titled What’s in an Archive? The Colonial and Anticolonial Afterlives of MENA Archives.
We are pleased to invite nominations for two elected positions on the BRISMES Communications Committee.
We are pleased to announce that submissions for the 2026 BRISMES conference, co-hosted by the SOAS Middle East Institute, are now open. We warmly invite you to review the call for papers and submit your abstracts for individual/co-authored presentations,...
Brief Encounters, the open-access peer-reviewed journal funded by CHASE, is overjoyed to announce the publication of the first contributions to a Special Issue composed of work by students and faculty of the English Department at Al-Aqsa University in...
The submission deadline for the 2026 BRISMES conference has been extended to 18 January 2026.