CBRL
Learning from the Levant
CBRL
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...
This joint talk by Dr Clare Rishbeth and Dr Hala Ghanem will start with presenting #refugeeswelcome in parks: a project interweaving public space usage and sociocultural integration. Clare Rishbeth will show how the research team...
The Yalla Project (YP) is an applied research hub on socio-spatial that was established in the Kasbah of Nablus in 2018, which tackles the everydayness through a learning-by-doing approach. YP seeks for endogenous responses to...
Joint lecture in partnership with the Palestine Exploration Fund held in honour of Andrea Zerbini Access to satellite imagery has enabled major advances in archaeology and other disciplines studying the Middle East and North...
A selection of scenes from Amman, showing (from left to right): Nadim Al Mallah St. mural in Jabal al Weibdeh, Darat Al Funon in Jabal al Weibdeh, King Talal St. in the 1950s, al Husseini mosque in the...
It is commonplace to seek to enforce international law as a means of vindicating the rights of the Palestinian people, including, fundamentally, the right to liberation. Legal “tools” deployed to dismantle the “master’s house” of...
This talk summarises the main arguments in Awad Halabi’s forthcoming book, Palestinian Rituals of Identity: The Prophet Moses Festival in Jerusalem, 1850-1948 (University of Texas Press, late 2022). The work focuses on the festival (mawsim)...
Register for this event here. The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) together with the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) are pleased to announce their second joint mentoring webinar for our members....
