Blogs

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

The Syrian refugee crisis and its impact on water policy in the Levant

By Dr Hussam Hussein, CBRL Pilot Study Grant recipient and postdoctoral  researcher at the Department of...

10 August 2018

Adapting to Azraq: Syrian heritage, vulnerability, and being new in a refugee camp

By Melissa Gatter, a 2018 CBRL travel grant recipient and PhD candidate in Middle Eastern...

01 August 2018

Freedom Theatre – musings on life in Palestine

By Anonymous One night in 2008, I found myself standing on a street corner in...

01 August 2018

Living with climate change during the Bronze Age

By Matthew Pound and Emma Hocking, senior lecturers in physical geography at Northumbria University and...

01 July 2018