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2021-22 CBRL grant applications new deadline: Friday 5th November

Find out more information and apply for our 2021-22 grant programme.

29 September 2021

Winners announced for Contemporary Levant’s Best Paper Award for 2021

We are thrilled to announce that this year’s Contemporary Levant Best Paper Prize has been...

27 September 2021

Mapping Digital Cultural Heritage in Jordan (MaDiH): project closing event

Tuesday 13th July saw the official close of phase one of the MaDiH project in Amman. Under the patronage of HRH Princess Dana Firas, the chair of the MaDiH Steering Committee, the...

28 July 2021

Libraries and hostel update at CBRL regional institutes – Amman and Jerusalem

Since the start of the global Covid-19 pandemic, CBRL’s regional institutes in Amman and Jerusalem have been forced to restrict...

08 July 2021

Renovations at the Kenyon Institute

The Kenyon Institute recently completed two significant renovations of its facilities in Jerusalem thanks to...

28 June 2021

CBRL 2021 undergraduate dissertation prizes

We are pleased to announce the CBRL undergraduate dissertation* prizes in the field of Levantine...

16 June 2021

CBRL statement on the current situation in Palestine/Israel

The Council for British Research in the Levant has been following with grave concern the...

21 May 2021

Call for papers: Contemporary Levant Best Article Prize 2021

Submissions for the 2021 Best Article Prize for CBRL’s international peer-reviewed journal Contemporary Levant are now open.

26 April 2021

Winners announced for CBRL’s Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2020

Winners announced for CBRL’s 2020 prize for Best Undergraduate Dissertation in Levantine studies.

22 April 2021