Blogs

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

The political economy of Palestine beyond settler colonialism: Comparison as political act

By Roberto Roccu, 2019 CBRL Visiting Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer at King’s College London...

01 August 2020

Sectarianism in unlikely places: The case of Jordan

By Dr May Darwich, CBRL Trustee and lecturer at the University of Birmingham My ongoing...

01 June 2020

Early and Mid-Holocene environments and settlement in eastern Jordan

  By Dr Matthew Jones, CBRL Team-based grant recipient (2018-19), CBRL Chair of Research and associate...

01 May 2020

Multilingualism and identity in Cyprus: What switching between languages tells us about socio-cultural identities

By Professor Jeanine Treffers-Daller,* CBRL Pilot Study recipient and professor at the University of Reading. Cyprus...

01 April 2020

Living under occupation: Palestinian teachers’ experiences

By Professor John Traxler, CBRL Travel Grant recipient and professor at the University of Wolverhampton. A...

10 February 2020