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Learning from the Levant
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All too often, the history of Arab democracy is considered one of failure and absence. This talk, however, suggests that a glance back at the history of the Arab twentieth century reveals a strong and...
This webinar will explore the history, archaeology and architecture of this historic city, located in central Israel. Ramla is significant because it was the only new city founded by the Muslim Arabs within Palestine and...
Bringing together a vivid array of analog and non-traditional sources, including colonial archives, newspaper reports, literature, oral histories and interviews, Buried in the Red Dirt tells a story of life, death, and reproduction, and missing bodies and...
There has been a long tradition of aerial reconnaissance for archaeology in the Middle East. This webinar will provide, in a historical context, the current importance of using remote sensing for the discovery and monitoring...
This lecture revisits the notion of “unfree labour” through the study of refugee workers in Middle Eastern agriculture. It presents findings from the Refugee Labour under Lockdown project, drawing on interviews with 80 Syrian agricultural...
CBRL AGM lecture 2021: The metamorphising struggle for Syria: proxy war, sanctions and stalled reconstruction Syria’s conflict has metamorphised into a hybrid: a partially frozen proxy war over territory combined with a battle over sanctions...
Desert Insurgency: Archaeology, T.E. Lawrence, and the Arab Revolt For 10 years, between 2005 and 2014, the ‘Great Arab Revolt Project’ (GARP) investigated the remains of the 1916-1918 Arab Revolt in southern Jordan, from Ma’an...
BRISMES – CBRL mentoring event: Applying for Funding and Securing a Post-doc Register for this event here. The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) and the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) are...
The politics of water scarcity in the Levant The Middle East is the most water scarce region in the world. In this webinar we will consider the causes and consequences of this water scarcity. We will discuss how climate and management of water resources impacts...
A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine In this event, co-hosted by CBRL and the Educational Bookshop, Lori Allen will present on her latest book, A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine,...