Recent news from the Society
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.
We are delighted to announce that Dr Narges Ansari and Dr Nur Arafeh have been selected as the winners of the 2022 BRISMES Early Career Development Prize.
Submissions are invited for the BRISMES Conference Student Paper Prize. The aim of this prize is to support BRISMES student members in the development of peer-reviewed work. The prize winner will receive £300 and will be mentored through a review process...
The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies is seeking an assistant editor who can help with the refereeing process for articles relating to the Arab world, and in particular Palestine/Israel
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2022 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.
On Wednesday 22 June, BRISMES will be hosting an online roundtable on Alaa Abd El-Fattah's recently published book 'You Have Not Yet Been Defeated'.