Research projects

Excavations of Roman/Early Byzantine Structures at Dreamers Bay, Akrotiri

Project summary The project investigates settlement and exploitation of Akrotiri, as geomorphological processes turned Hellenistic...

Published:2022

Desert Roads: Investigating Colonialism in Libya and Palestine

Project summary This project discusses the representation and transformation of deserts as colonial spaces. Unlike...

Published:2022

A Threatened Coast: Archaeology, Heritage and Development along the Northern Coast of Lebanon

Project summary The project aims at identifying traces of Bronze and Iron Age occupation along...

Published:2022

More than just a short term! Long term resilient and flexible solutions for water sectors impacted by forced migrations and refugees; the case of the Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon

Project summary Using Jordan and Lebanon as case studies, the research evaluated the impact that...

Published:2022

Instruments of imperialism? What transport jars reveal about economy and administration in the earliest world empires

Project summary This project investigates the socio-economic impact of imperial policies on the Phoenician heartland...

Published:2022

Islamic Bayda Project 2020

Project summary The Islamic Bayda Project is part of the broader Late Petra Project that...

Published:2022

Khirbat Faris: Ethnography, land-use and environmental studies 2020

Project summary The CBRL fund supported the final synthesis of the data from the site...

Published:2021

The Living Museum of Umm Qais: Sustainable preservation, analysis and virtual reconstruction of Gadara’s ancient site and village

Project summary The project is part of an effort to rebuild the connections between the...

Published:2021

‘Cultural Corridors of Peace’ and a regional Bedouin gathering

Project summary CBRL joined the Cultural Corridors of Peace (CCP) project from April 2019 until...

Published:2021

Our past, our future, all together in Faynan (OPOF)

Project summary The OPOF project focuses on promoting the cultural heritage and history of the...

Published:2021

The documentation of Amman heritage houses using EAMENA’s methodology project

Project summary The Amman Heritage Houses (AHH), funded by the Global Heritage Fund and affiliated...

Published:2021

The Syrian Desk: hidden precarities in humanitarian remoteness

Project summary This research, supported by a CBRL Honorary Fellowship and in collaboration with Elisa...

Published:2021

A genealogy of Islamic religious leadership in post-Ottoman states

Project summary This project traces the rise of ‘Grand Muftis’ as a new model of...

Published:2021

Alternative trajectories towards complexity: the enigma of the Lebanese coast

Project summary This study targets the lack of a ‘developed’ EBI ceramic assemblage in parts...

Published:2021

The Khatt Shebib landscape project

Project summary The project, supported by the CBRL travel grant, set out to investigate the...

Published:2021