Blogs

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

Tracing the alternative music scene in post-Oslo Palestine

By Polly Withers, CBRL Fellow at the Kenyon Institute.  This post is an overview of...

01 June 2018

‘The Deep Past as a Social Asset in the Levant’ Launch Event Ceremony

This research was conducted by Dr Oroub El ABED as part of a British Academy...

29 November 2016

Arabic(s), Ecologies, Identities… and the Disappearing Rural Vernaculars of Jordan

by Alex Bellem and Carol Palmer. In discussions relating to Arabic, an apparently simple question...

25 November 2016

Workshop Review: Visual Culture in the Middle East

by Maïra al-Manzali. What images does the Middle East produce? What images of the region...

17 November 2016

Urban Murals in Amman: Between Empowerment and Decoration

By Julio Moreno Cirujano. In recent years, Amman has become an urban canvas for street...

17 November 2016