Blogs

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

Creative practice and cultural memory: Exploring First World War heritage in the Middle East – exploratory workshop

By Dr Carol Palmer, Director of CBRL’s British Institute in Amman Earlier this month, CBRL’s...

10 September 2018

Contemporary Palestinian life writing

By Sophia Brown, 2018 CBRL Visiting Fellow at the Kenyon Institute in East Jerusalem and...

01 September 2018

Language and community at CBRL’s British Institute in Amman: my two months studying Arabic at the Qasid Arabic Institute

By Chris Wilson, PhD candidate in the history of the modern Middle East at the...

30 August 2018

History from graffiti

By Michael Macdonald, Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College...

20 August 2018

Exploring the transition between pre-urban and early urban societies in Jordan’s Zarqa valley

  By Alessandra Caselli, doctoral student in the Archaeology of the Near East at Sapienza...

10 August 2018