Recent news from the Society
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 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 January and 30 September 2023. This...
The Academic Freedom Committee of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) and of the Società per gli Studi sul Medio Oriente (SeSaMO) have written to the University of Bern to express grave concern about the cancellation of a public...
BRISMES CAF expresses grave concern about the ongoing imprisonment of Bahraini academic Dr Abduljalil al-Singace and the violations of his academic freedom, human rights and physical well-being.
BRISMES is delighted and proud to award the 2024 Award for Services to Middle Eastern Studies to Professor Ilan Pappé.
We are delighted to announce that submissions are open for this annual prize. If you are a student member of BRISMES and registered to present a paper at the conference, please do consider submitting your paper for the BRISMES Conference Student Paper...
The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies expresses its deep alarm at Israel’s recent military aggression against Iran, which threatens to unravel ongoing diplomatic efforts between Iran and the United States regarding Iran’s nuclear programme....
In this statement, the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom explains its position that, contrary to common assumptions, academic boycotts can be consistent with—and even necessary for—upholding academic freedom and fundamental human rights, particularly...
The Committee on Academic Freedom of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) welcomes the publication of HEPI Report 185. We acknowledge its valuable documentation of the 2024 student encampments protesting UK universities’ complicity...