Blogs

20 years of excavation in Sidon, Lebanon

By Claude Doumet-Serhal, MBE, FSA On the coast of Lebanon, 30 km south of the capital Beirut...

01 March 2019

Diasporic activism of Jewish Kurds from Iraq in Israel

By Dr Bahar Baser, University of Coventry and 2018 CBRL Pilot Study awardee. The Kurdistan Region of Iraq...

01 February 2019

Using science to interpret Neolithic villages

By Sarah Elliott, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in partnership with CBRL. Since my first lecture on archaeological science...

20 January 2019

The Syrian intellectual life after 2011: fieldwork in Beirut

By Adélie Chevée, CBRL 2016 and 2017 Travel Grant awardee and PhD candidate in politics...

10 January 2019

Digitising Petra 1929

By Amara Thornton, CBRL Centennial Award holder and Honorary Research Associate, UCL Institute of Archaeology...

01 December 2018

Uncovering prehistory in north-western Cyprus

By Lisa Graham, CBRL 2018 Post-doctoral Travel Grant awardee and Open Studies Tutor, Centre for Open...

20 November 2018

Securing human rights in an age of securitisation

By Teodora Todorova, 2018 CBRL Senior Visiting Research Fellow and Teaching Fellow in sociology at...

10 November 2018

CBRL pilot study: The first step into researching refugee communities in Jordan

By Dr Yafa Shanneik, University of Birmingham and 2018 CBRL Pilot Study awardee. During the summer...

01 November 2018

Timing the earlier Holocene of the Levant

By Piotr Jacobsson Think of two communities breaking down: traditional craftsmanship obliterated by new fashion, the...

01 October 2018