Laleh Khalili Receives Award for Services to Middle Eastern Studies
BRISMES is delighted and proud to award the 2022 Award for Services to Middle Eastern Studies to Laleh Khalili, who is Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter.
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Joint Letters Following Release of Mr Patrick George Zaki
Following the good news that Patrick George Zaki has been released, BRISMES and SeSaMO have written joint letters to the Egyptian government and to EU and Italian authorities to express our deep concerns regarding the ongoing detention of thousands of...
2023 Early Career Development Scholarship Winners Announced
We are delighted to announce that Dr Kaoutar Ghilani and Dr Altea Pericoli have been selected as the winners of the 2023 BRISMES Early Career Development Scholarship.
Statement in Solidarity with Dr Muriel Asseburg of SWP
We express our solidarity with Dr Muriel Asseburg who has come under attack by the Israeli embassy in Berlin following comments that she made in a podcast discussing the situation in the Middle East.
Letter to Leiden University Regarding Cancellation of Event
On 6 July, the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom wrote to Professor Hester Bijl, Rector Magnificus of Leiden University, to express our serious and urgent concern regarding the cancellation of the event ‘Apartheid in Palestine, Namibia, and South...
BRISMES Welcomes Newly Elected Officers and Council Members
We are happy to report the ratification of the election of new and returning Council members and of the newly elected BRISMES Secretary and Treasurer.
2023 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize Winners Announced
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2023 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 in the previous calendar year.
2023 BRISMES Annual Conference Programme and List of Speakers
We are pleased to announce our final programme for the 2023 BRISMES Conference 'Ecology, Crisis, and Power in the Middle East'.