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Learning from the Levant
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This talk will summarise 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...
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....
This event is proudly presented in partnership with the British Institute at Ankara. From Napoleon Bonaparte’s invasion of Egypt in 1798 to the foreign armed interventions in the ongoing civil wars in Syria, Iraq, Yemen,...
The heritage agenda in the Levant, whether focused on tourism, local communities, or sustainability, has typically been set by external agents. This event addresses this issue through presentations and discussion from two previous winners and...
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...
