Recent news from the Society
BRISMES Campaigns is devastated by the destruction in the aftermath of the Friday evening 8 September earthquake in Morocco. Our thoughts are with our friends and colleagues and all who have been impacted. We offer our deepest condolences for those you...
We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the 2024 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize. Please note that the annual deadline for the prize has changed to allow the winner to attend the BRISMES annual conference.
The Academic Freedom Committee has written to Iraqi authorities to express our profound concern about the recent directives which ban or limit the use of the terms “gender” (al-naw‘ al-ijtima‘i and al-jindar) and “homosexuality” (al-mithliyya)...
The Committee on Academic Freedom has written to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to express our deep concerns about the ongoing detention of Dr Ahmed Al Tohamy, Assistant Professor of Political Sciences in the Faculty of Economic and Political Sciences,...
Marking the 20-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, BRISMES invites members and non-members to attend the 2023 BRISMES Annual Lecture Re-membering Iraq: On the Wounds of War by Sinan Antoon.
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.
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...
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.