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Call for Applications Publication Workshop for PhD Students and Early Career Researchers at the CBRL Amman Institute Date: 26 October 2022 Time: 10:30 am–12:30 pm, Amman time Format: In-person Where: CBRL Amman Institute, 6 Al-Baouneyah...
The Kashmir-Palestine Scholars Solidarity Network announces its first in a series of “Kashmir-Palestine Conversations” for the Autumn of 2022: “Bring Him Back” (dir. Fahad Shah, 2015), film screening and discussion with Suhad Daher Nashef and...
Launch of Kashmir-Palestine Scholars Solidarity Network Palestine and Kashmir are two of the most longstanding unresolved geopolitical puzzles resulting from the end of the British Empire. They share an unenviable list of commonalities in their...
We are joined by Professor Hughes in the third event of our series of events to mark the centenary of the British Mandate in Palestine (1922-48). Professor Hughes will use material from his recent book...
When an earthquake shook Palestine, Transjordan and the south of Lebanon and Syria in 1927, terms such as the Richter scale or plate tectonics which we now use to talk about seismic events were still...
In this talk Dr Muna Dajani will look at how a unified watershed governance was devised by external powers, mainly the British and Americans, to construct the water resources of the Jordan River Basin as...
This webinar considers British involvement in and attitudes towards Palestine during the so-called “Peaceful Crusade” of the nineteenth century. Polly presents aspects of his book Palestine in the Victorian Age, arguing that Britain’s occupation, and...
In collaboration with the Council for British Research in the Levant, SHL (Sussex Humanities Lab) and MENACS (Middle East North Africa Centre Sussex), this workshop invites researchers and students who work within the Digital Humanities...
Rebel populism tells the story of the Syrian uprising through the eyes of migrant workers in Beirut. Workers from Syria have maintained a presence in Lebanon for decades. There was a time when their wages stretched...
In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. Maps divide the walled Old City into four quarters, yet that division doesn’t reflect the reality of mixed and diverse neighbourhoods. Beyond...