Recent news from the Society
BRISMES Council and Committee on Academic Freedom have written to the Metropolitan Police and Greater Manchester Police to express serious concerns regarding recent arrests of Palestine solidarity protesters for the use of the phrase "Globalise the Intifada"....
Submissions are invited for the 2026 BRISMES Early Career Development Scholarship. The aim of this award is to support activities geared towards strengthening the academic profile and CV of an early career scholar.
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 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...