Blogs

Is British colonial architecture Israeli heritage?

By Julio Moreno Cirujano, PhD candidate at SOAS The Nahalal Police Station is located in...

20 October 2022

Reflecting on a ‘wilderness of mirrors’: partial connections and the afterlife of fieldwork in Jordan

Reflecting on my experiences of fieldwork in Jordan as a doctoral student and CBRL Arabic...

19 October 2021

Site Preservation and Loss at the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon: Q&A with Mouhamad Abdel Sater and Sayatani Neogi

Earlier this month we met with Mouhamad Abdel Sater (Directorate of General Antiquities, Lebanon) and...

23 August 2021

Animal herding and the development of state-level societies in the Levant

By Lynn Welton and Graham Philip The Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Ages (EB) in the Levant...

22 February 2021

Reflections on excavations at Khirbat Faris, southern Jordan

  By Alison McQuitty Excavation reports are hard work. Hard work to write and all...

25 January 2021

New Neolithic and Early Bronze Age discoveries at Tell Koubba in Northern Lebanon

By Kamal Badreshany and Graham Philip, Durham University Since 2015, the American University of Beirut...

10 December 2020

Surrogate states: Palestinian refugees, the PLO, and UNRWA in history

By Anne Irfan, winner of Contemporary Levant’s best paper award of 2020 and Departmental Lecturer in...

23 November 2020

Close encounters? Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the Middle East

By Graeme Barker, Disney Professor of Archaeology Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and CBRL...

01 October 2020

Documenting generations of women’s activism in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon

By Nicola Pratt, Reader at the University of Warwick and former CBRL trustee. Whilst much...

01 September 2020