Recent news from the Society
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.
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...
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.
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.
We are pleased to announce our final programme for the 2023 BRISMES Conference 'Ecology, Crisis, and Power in the Middle East'.
Join the BRISMES Outreach & Pedagogy Committee on 14 June for an online panel bringing together queer feminist scholars and activists from the MENA to reflect on Sara Hegazi's political legacy
On 7 June, BRISMES Vice-President Neve Gordon will be in conversation with with Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
BRISMES has signed a joint letter from 51 organisations calling for the release of Dr Salah Soltan, an arbitrarily detained academic in Egypt. The co-signing organisations believe that the Egyptian authorities’ abuse of Dr Soltan, a legal US permanent...