BRISMES
@brismes.bsky.social
BRISMES brings together teachers, researchers, students, diplomats, journalists and others who deal professionally with the Middle East.
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#AcademicFreedom | We have written to the ambassador of #Kuwait in the UK regarding the arrest of Dr Jassim Aljezza. We welcome any steps that support his prompt release, in accordance with Kuwait’s legal commitments to uphold #humanrights and #academicfreedom.
Read more: bit.ly/4oVJL6o
Read more: bit.ly/4oVJL6o
#OnlineEvent | 'Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize Showcase & Careers Conversation'
🗓️8 Dec, 15:00-16.30 (GMT)
Join BRISMES in celebrating this year’s Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize winners for the best PhDs on the Middle East.
More info and registration: bit.ly/LDMP_Event
🗓️8 Dec, 15:00-16.30 (GMT)
Join BRISMES in celebrating this year’s Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize winners for the best PhDs on the Middle East.
More info and registration: bit.ly/LDMP_Event
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
#OnlineEvent | 'Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize Showcase & Careers Conversation'
🗓️8 Dec, 15:00-16.30 (GMT)
Join BRISMES in celebrating this year’s Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize winners for the best PhDs on the Middle East.
More info and registration: bit.ly/LDMP_Event
🗓️8 Dec, 15:00-16.30 (GMT)
Join BRISMES in celebrating this year’s Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize winners for the best PhDs on the Middle East.
More info and registration: bit.ly/LDMP_Event
#MENA #Events | "Syria: Post Assad"
📅 9 Dec, 14.00 GMT (Online)
The event hosted by @asianaffairs.bsky.social will feature Syria expert Charles Lister discussing developments in Syria over the past year following the fall of the Assad regime.
More info: rsaa.org.uk/product/9-de...
📅 9 Dec, 14.00 GMT (Online)
The event hosted by @asianaffairs.bsky.social will feature Syria expert Charles Lister discussing developments in Syria over the past year following the fall of the Assad regime.
More info: rsaa.org.uk/product/9-de...
9 December 2025 - Syria: Post-Assad - The Royal Society for Asian Affairs
Twelve months ago, following thirteen years of civil war, the then rebel faction, Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) launched a lightening offensive which saw the group take control of huge swathes of Syrian ...
rsaa.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
#MENA #Events | "Syria: Post Assad"
📅 9 Dec, 14.00 GMT (Online)
The event hosted by @asianaffairs.bsky.social will feature Syria expert Charles Lister discussing developments in Syria over the past year following the fall of the Assad regime.
More info: rsaa.org.uk/product/9-de...
📅 9 Dec, 14.00 GMT (Online)
The event hosted by @asianaffairs.bsky.social will feature Syria expert Charles Lister discussing developments in Syria over the past year following the fall of the Assad regime.
More info: rsaa.org.uk/product/9-de...
#MENA #Events | "Reels of Agency: Women, Faith, and Power on Instagram in Saudi Arabia"
📍@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
📅 28 Nov 2025, 3-4.30 pm
Featuring BRISMES Council Member &
@lsemiddleeast.bsky.social Research Fellow Dr Hanaa Almoaibed
More info: shorturl.at/pOC1W
📍@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
📅 28 Nov 2025, 3-4.30 pm
Featuring BRISMES Council Member &
@lsemiddleeast.bsky.social Research Fellow Dr Hanaa Almoaibed
More info: shorturl.at/pOC1W
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
#MENA #Events | "Reels of Agency: Women, Faith, and Power on Instagram in Saudi Arabia"
📍@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
📅 28 Nov 2025, 3-4.30 pm
Featuring BRISMES Council Member &
@lsemiddleeast.bsky.social Research Fellow Dr Hanaa Almoaibed
More info: shorturl.at/pOC1W
📍@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
📅 28 Nov 2025, 3-4.30 pm
Featuring BRISMES Council Member &
@lsemiddleeast.bsky.social Research Fellow Dr Hanaa Almoaibed
More info: shorturl.at/pOC1W
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🏆Our BISA Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial WG Prize for Early Career Scholars is open again! 🏆
Supporting CPD’s early-career members in the development of peer-reviewed work 🌟
Deadline: 31 December
Read more here 👉 https://ow.ly/UPL650XtT4j
niharika pandit Sarah Gharib Seif
Supporting CPD’s early-career members in the development of peer-reviewed work 🌟
Deadline: 31 December
Read more here 👉 https://ow.ly/UPL650XtT4j
niharika pandit Sarah Gharib Seif
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🏆Our BISA Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial WG Prize for Early Career Scholars is open again! 🏆
Supporting CPD’s early-career members in the development of peer-reviewed work 🌟
Deadline: 31 December
Read more here 👉 https://ow.ly/UPL650XtT4j
niharika pandit Sarah Gharib Seif
Supporting CPD’s early-career members in the development of peer-reviewed work 🌟
Deadline: 31 December
Read more here 👉 https://ow.ly/UPL650XtT4j
niharika pandit Sarah Gharib Seif
It was an honour to host Prof Ilan Pappé last night for the 2025 BRISMES annual lecture on #PalestineStudies. Our heartfelt thanks to Prof Pappé and to everyone who attended the lecture. We look forward to sharing a recording of the lecture in the coming weeks.
November 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It was an honour to host Prof Ilan Pappé last night for the 2025 BRISMES annual lecture on #PalestineStudies. Our heartfelt thanks to Prof Pappé and to everyone who attended the lecture. We look forward to sharing a recording of the lecture in the coming weeks.
#AcademicFreedom | We have written to the ambassador of #Kuwait in the UK regarding the arrest of Dr Jassim Aljezza. We welcome any steps that support his prompt release, in accordance with Kuwait’s legal commitments to uphold #humanrights and #academicfreedom.
Read more: bit.ly/4oVJL6o
Read more: bit.ly/4oVJL6o
November 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
#AcademicFreedom | We have written to the ambassador of #Kuwait in the UK regarding the arrest of Dr Jassim Aljezza. We welcome any steps that support his prompt release, in accordance with Kuwait’s legal commitments to uphold #humanrights and #academicfreedom.
Read more: bit.ly/4oVJL6o
Read more: bit.ly/4oVJL6o
#MENA #Events: "Afghanistan: The Reality of Life Today"
📍 Royal Geographical Society, London
🗓️ 27 Nov 2025, 6:30pm
Featuring Lyse Doucet, Zahra Joya, and Kate Clark
🔗 More info & tickets: www.afghanaid.org.uk/Event/afghan...
📍 Royal Geographical Society, London
🗓️ 27 Nov 2025, 6:30pm
Featuring Lyse Doucet, Zahra Joya, and Kate Clark
🔗 More info & tickets: www.afghanaid.org.uk/Event/afghan...
Afghanistan: The Reality of Life Today - 27/11/2025 18:30:00
Join us for this special event in London on 27th November with Lyse Doucet as we come together to discuss life in Afghanistan in 2025.
www.afghanaid.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
#MENA #Events: "Afghanistan: The Reality of Life Today"
📍 Royal Geographical Society, London
🗓️ 27 Nov 2025, 6:30pm
Featuring Lyse Doucet, Zahra Joya, and Kate Clark
🔗 More info & tickets: www.afghanaid.org.uk/Event/afghan...
📍 Royal Geographical Society, London
🗓️ 27 Nov 2025, 6:30pm
Featuring Lyse Doucet, Zahra Joya, and Kate Clark
🔗 More info & tickets: www.afghanaid.org.uk/Event/afghan...
📢 Reminder: there is still time to register for our BRISMES Annual Lecture, which is happening tomorrow - don’t miss it!
📢 Reminder: Join us for the 2025 BRISMES Annual Lecture with Professor Ilan Pappé — “Why There is a Need for #Palestine Studies?”
🗓️ 19 November 2025
🕕 18:00–19:30 GMT
💻 Online | Free & open to all (registration required)
🔗 bit.ly/42QPHEU
🗓️ 19 November 2025
🕕 18:00–19:30 GMT
💻 Online | Free & open to all (registration required)
🔗 bit.ly/42QPHEU
November 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
📢 Reminder: there is still time to register for our BRISMES Annual Lecture, which is happening tomorrow - don’t miss it!
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LSE Master’s students, receiving your thesis grades? Our annual Dissertation Prize is now open: if you get a grade of 70 or above for your research on the #MiddleEast, apply & get your hard work recognised.
Deadline 30 Nov 2025, prizes announced Jan 2026: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
Deadline 30 Nov 2025, prizes announced Jan 2026: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
Master's Dissertation Prize
The LSE Middle East Centre runs a prize for LSE Master's student dissertations.
www.lse.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
LSE Master’s students, receiving your thesis grades? Our annual Dissertation Prize is now open: if you get a grade of 70 or above for your research on the #MiddleEast, apply & get your hard work recognised.
Deadline 30 Nov 2025, prizes announced Jan 2026: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
Deadline 30 Nov 2025, prizes announced Jan 2026: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
We’re pleased to share that the “Palestine and Europe” symposium - initially cancelled by French authorities - went ahead at an alternative venue and was successfully livestreamed. The event recordings can be found here: www.youtube.com/@ArabCenter
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
We’re pleased to share that the “Palestine and Europe” symposium - initially cancelled by French authorities - went ahead at an alternative venue and was successfully livestreamed. The event recordings can be found here: www.youtube.com/@ArabCenter
Reposted by BRISMES
Call for Papers: The Oxford Middle East Review (OMER) seeks submissions for their upcoming issue, themed 'Reconstruction' - deadline 4 January: omerjournal.com/current-call...
November 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Call for Papers: The Oxford Middle East Review (OMER) seeks submissions for their upcoming issue, themed 'Reconstruction' - deadline 4 January: omerjournal.com/current-call...
#AcademicFreedom | BRISMES CAF wrote to Iranian authorities to express our deep concern regarding recent developments affecting academic freedom in the Islamic Republic of Iran, particularly the reported arrests of scholars during November 2025. (1/3) 👉 bit.ly/CAF_Iran
November 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
#AcademicFreedom | BRISMES CAF wrote to Iranian authorities to express our deep concern regarding recent developments affecting academic freedom in the Islamic Republic of Iran, particularly the reported arrests of scholars during November 2025. (1/3) 👉 bit.ly/CAF_Iran
A reminder that the deadline for submissions for the 2026 Leigh Douglas Memorial #Prize is midnight on 15 November 2025.
More details below 👇and on our website: brismes.ac.uk/awards/ldmp
More details below 👇and on our website: brismes.ac.uk/awards/ldmp
📢 Submissions are open for the 2026 Leigh Douglas Memorial #Prize awarded to the best #PhD dissertation on a #MiddleEastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British uni between 1 Oct 2024 and 30 Sept 2025.
Deadline: 15 Nov 2025
More info: www.brismes.ac.uk/awards/ldmp
Deadline: 15 Nov 2025
More info: www.brismes.ac.uk/awards/ldmp
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A reminder that the deadline for submissions for the 2026 Leigh Douglas Memorial #Prize is midnight on 15 November 2025.
More details below 👇and on our website: brismes.ac.uk/awards/ldmp
More details below 👇and on our website: brismes.ac.uk/awards/ldmp
#AcademicFreedom | BRISMES, DAVO, SeSaMO, and MESA express deep concern over the cancellation of the symposium “Palestine and Europe,” organised by the Collège de France and CAREP. Read our letter (1/3) 👉 shorturl.at/1RrR8
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
#AcademicFreedom | BRISMES, DAVO, SeSaMO, and MESA express deep concern over the cancellation of the symposium “Palestine and Europe,” organised by the Collège de France and CAREP. Read our letter (1/3) 👉 shorturl.at/1RrR8
📢 Reminder: Join us for the 2025 BRISMES Annual Lecture with Professor Ilan Pappé — “Why There is a Need for #Palestine Studies?”
🗓️ 19 November 2025
🕕 18:00–19:30 GMT
💻 Online | Free & open to all (registration required)
🔗 bit.ly/42QPHEU
🗓️ 19 November 2025
🕕 18:00–19:30 GMT
💻 Online | Free & open to all (registration required)
🔗 bit.ly/42QPHEU
November 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
📢 Reminder: Join us for the 2025 BRISMES Annual Lecture with Professor Ilan Pappé — “Why There is a Need for #Palestine Studies?”
🗓️ 19 November 2025
🕕 18:00–19:30 GMT
💻 Online | Free & open to all (registration required)
🔗 bit.ly/42QPHEU
🗓️ 19 November 2025
🕕 18:00–19:30 GMT
💻 Online | Free & open to all (registration required)
🔗 bit.ly/42QPHEU
#AcademicFreedom | We have written to @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social to express our profound concern about the treatment of Mr Usama Ghanem, a student of International Relations at the university, who has been indefinitely suspended from his studies.
Read our letter: bit.ly/4oNtf7Q 1/3
Read our letter: bit.ly/4oNtf7Q 1/3
November 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
#AcademicFreedom | We have written to @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social to express our profound concern about the treatment of Mr Usama Ghanem, a student of International Relations at the university, who has been indefinitely suspended from his studies.
Read our letter: bit.ly/4oNtf7Q 1/3
Read our letter: bit.ly/4oNtf7Q 1/3
🎊 Congratulations to our AHRC-funded partner, the Syrian Academics and Researchers' Network in the UK (SARN UK), on the outstanding success of its international Conference at the University of Sussex last month 👏✨
Read our press release here 👇
www.brismes.ac.uk/news/brismes...
Read our press release here 👇
www.brismes.ac.uk/news/brismes...
October 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🎊 Congratulations to our AHRC-funded partner, the Syrian Academics and Researchers' Network in the UK (SARN UK), on the outstanding success of its international Conference at the University of Sussex last month 👏✨
Read our press release here 👇
www.brismes.ac.uk/news/brismes...
Read our press release here 👇
www.brismes.ac.uk/news/brismes...
We are delighted to announce that Professor Ilan Pappé will deliver the 2025 BRISMES Annual Lecture: 'Why There is a Need for #Palestine Studies?'
Free to attend and open to all, but registration is essential.
📅Wednesday, 19 November 2025
🕕1800-1930 GMT
📍Online
🔗https://bit.ly/42QPHEU
Free to attend and open to all, but registration is essential.
📅Wednesday, 19 November 2025
🕕1800-1930 GMT
📍Online
🔗https://bit.ly/42QPHEU
October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We are delighted to announce that Professor Ilan Pappé will deliver the 2025 BRISMES Annual Lecture: 'Why There is a Need for #Palestine Studies?'
Free to attend and open to all, but registration is essential.
📅Wednesday, 19 November 2025
🕕1800-1930 GMT
📍Online
🔗https://bit.ly/42QPHEU
Free to attend and open to all, but registration is essential.
📅Wednesday, 19 November 2025
🕕1800-1930 GMT
📍Online
🔗https://bit.ly/42QPHEU
Watch BRISMES Trustee, Dr @ferasalkabani.bsky.social, as he discusses Orientalism in the latest season of TV documentary, Empire Builders: The Untold Story of the Orientalists: Adventure, Art & Exploration 🎬
Watch the trailer 🎞️ here 👇
Watch the trailer 🎞️ here 👇
October 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Watch BRISMES Trustee, Dr @ferasalkabani.bsky.social, as he discusses Orientalism in the latest season of TV documentary, Empire Builders: The Untold Story of the Orientalists: Adventure, Art & Exploration 🎬
Watch the trailer 🎞️ here 👇
Watch the trailer 🎞️ here 👇
Have you read it yet? Murjana, a novel of medieval Baghdad, is Ghada Karmi’s latest work 📘
Listen to the celebrated Palestinian physician, author and activist tell us more about her book on Instagram ✨🪄
www.instagram.com/reel/DQMAvNZ...
Listen to the celebrated Palestinian physician, author and activist tell us more about her book on Instagram ✨🪄
www.instagram.com/reel/DQMAvNZ...
October 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Have you read it yet? Murjana, a novel of medieval Baghdad, is Ghada Karmi’s latest work 📘
Listen to the celebrated Palestinian physician, author and activist tell us more about her book on Instagram ✨🪄
www.instagram.com/reel/DQMAvNZ...
Listen to the celebrated Palestinian physician, author and activist tell us more about her book on Instagram ✨🪄
www.instagram.com/reel/DQMAvNZ...
From a PhD student to Co-Vice President & Chair of the Society's Committee for Academic Freedom, watch to Dr
Lewis Turner @newcastleuni.bsky.social tell us more about his BRISMES journey:
youtube.com/watch?v=2h9S...
Get involved. Sign up for membership here:
www.brismes.ac.uk/membership
Lewis Turner @newcastleuni.bsky.social tell us more about his BRISMES journey:
youtube.com/watch?v=2h9S...
Get involved. Sign up for membership here:
www.brismes.ac.uk/membership
Dr Lewis Turner, Co-Vive President of BRISMES
YouTube video by Feras Alkabani
youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
From a PhD student to Co-Vice President & Chair of the Society's Committee for Academic Freedom, watch to Dr
Lewis Turner @newcastleuni.bsky.social tell us more about his BRISMES journey:
youtube.com/watch?v=2h9S...
Get involved. Sign up for membership here:
www.brismes.ac.uk/membership
Lewis Turner @newcastleuni.bsky.social tell us more about his BRISMES journey:
youtube.com/watch?v=2h9S...
Get involved. Sign up for membership here:
www.brismes.ac.uk/membership
#AcademicFreedom | BRISMES CAF has written to authorities in Sweden, Belgium and Italy regarding Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish scientist arrested and imprisoned in #Iran since 2016, who has just been confirmed alive.
Read our letter: shorturl.at/hIGAe 1/2
Read our letter: shorturl.at/hIGAe 1/2
October 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
#AcademicFreedom | BRISMES CAF has written to authorities in Sweden, Belgium and Italy regarding Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish scientist arrested and imprisoned in #Iran since 2016, who has just been confirmed alive.
Read our letter: shorturl.at/hIGAe 1/2
Read our letter: shorturl.at/hIGAe 1/2
📢 Submissions are OPEN for our #BRISMES2026 conference: War, Empire and Sabotage in an Age of Genocide
📅 23-25 June 2026
📍@soasuni.bsky.social, University of London
Call for papers: shorturl.at/Bnm0N
Please share widely!
📅 23-25 June 2026
📍@soasuni.bsky.social, University of London
Call for papers: shorturl.at/Bnm0N
Please share widely!
October 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
📢 Submissions are OPEN for our #BRISMES2026 conference: War, Empire and Sabotage in an Age of Genocide
📅 23-25 June 2026
📍@soasuni.bsky.social, University of London
Call for papers: shorturl.at/Bnm0N
Please share widely!
📅 23-25 June 2026
📍@soasuni.bsky.social, University of London
Call for papers: shorturl.at/Bnm0N
Please share widely!
Join BRISMES Trustee, Dr @ferasalkabani.bsky.social if you’re in @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org this Thursday 📚 📕
Details below 👇 All welcome 🙏
Details below 👇 All welcome 🙏
We are pleased to announce that Dr Feras Alkabani, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature (University of Sussex), is giving a book talk at the Centre for Islamic Studies (University of Cambridge) at 5.00pm on Thursday, 9 October. Please see the poster for more details.
October 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Join BRISMES Trustee, Dr @ferasalkabani.bsky.social if you’re in @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org this Thursday 📚 📕
Details below 👇 All welcome 🙏
Details below 👇 All welcome 🙏
📣BRISMES Trustee, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Dr @ferasalkabani.bsky.social, is giving a book talk @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
🗓️ Thursday, 9 October 2025; 17:00 – 18:45
📍 Room 10, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA
All welcome 🙏 📚
🗓️ Thursday, 9 October 2025; 17:00 – 18:45
📍 Room 10, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA
All welcome 🙏 📚
October 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
📣BRISMES Trustee, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Dr @ferasalkabani.bsky.social, is giving a book talk @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
🗓️ Thursday, 9 October 2025; 17:00 – 18:45
📍 Room 10, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA
All welcome 🙏 📚
🗓️ Thursday, 9 October 2025; 17:00 – 18:45
📍 Room 10, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA
All welcome 🙏 📚