Contemporary Levant
@contemplevant.bsky.social
A journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant @cbrl.bsky.social; https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ycol20. Looking for archaeology? That’ll be our sister journal, @levant-journal.bsky.social
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Entangled roots: co-governance and the politics of reforestation in contemporary Lebanon
This article examines the concept of co-governance in the context of reforestation in post-war Lebanon. Specifically, it considers this concept in relation to the Lebanon Reforestation Initiative (...
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New online and open access at @contemplevant.bsky.social: "Entangled roots: co-governance and the politics of reforestation in contemporary Lebanon" by Paul Esber: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Lebanon #environment #reforestation
#Lebanon #environment #reforestation
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The November 2025 edition of CBRL’s newsletter is out now! 📬
Catch up on our latest news, research, and upcoming events across the Levant. Check it out! 📰
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Catch up on our latest news, research, and upcoming events across the Levant. Check it out! 📰
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November 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The November 2025 edition of CBRL’s newsletter is out now! 📬
Catch up on our latest news, research, and upcoming events across the Levant. Check it out! 📰
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Catch up on our latest news, research, and upcoming events across the Levant. Check it out! 📰
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CBRL invites applications for Workshop Grants! 📑
🔹 Deadline: Friday - 16 Jan 2026
For more details and to apply:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/cbrl-wo...
🔹 Deadline: Friday - 16 Jan 2026
For more details and to apply:
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November 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
CBRL invites applications for Workshop Grants! 📑
🔹 Deadline: Friday - 16 Jan 2026
For more details and to apply:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/cbrl-wo...
🔹 Deadline: Friday - 16 Jan 2026
For more details and to apply:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/cbrl-wo...
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What does an ethical future for digital heritage look like? 🌍
Join Dr. Bijan Rouhani (Oxford, EAMENA) for “Beyond Digitisation” — a lecture on AI, ethics & sustainability in heritage.
🔹 19 Nov 2025
🔹 6 PM Amman | 3 PM UK
🔹 Online ( Zoom)
Join Dr. Bijan Rouhani (Oxford, EAMENA) for “Beyond Digitisation” — a lecture on AI, ethics & sustainability in heritage.
🔹 19 Nov 2025
🔹 6 PM Amman | 3 PM UK
🔹 Online ( Zoom)
November 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
What does an ethical future for digital heritage look like? 🌍
Join Dr. Bijan Rouhani (Oxford, EAMENA) for “Beyond Digitisation” — a lecture on AI, ethics & sustainability in heritage.
🔹 19 Nov 2025
🔹 6 PM Amman | 3 PM UK
🔹 Online ( Zoom)
Join Dr. Bijan Rouhani (Oxford, EAMENA) for “Beyond Digitisation” — a lecture on AI, ethics & sustainability in heritage.
🔹 19 Nov 2025
🔹 6 PM Amman | 3 PM UK
🔹 Online ( Zoom)
New online and open access at @contemplevant.bsky.social: "Entangled roots: co-governance and the politics of reforestation in contemporary Lebanon" by Paul Esber: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Lebanon #environment #reforestation
#Lebanon #environment #reforestation
Entangled roots: co-governance and the politics of reforestation in contemporary Lebanon
This article examines the concept of co-governance in the context of reforestation in post-war Lebanon. Specifically, it considers this concept in relation to the Lebanon Reforestation Initiative (...
www.tandfonline.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
New online and open access at @contemplevant.bsky.social: "Entangled roots: co-governance and the politics of reforestation in contemporary Lebanon" by Paul Esber: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Lebanon #environment #reforestation
#Lebanon #environment #reforestation
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TWO DAYS LEFT to apply! POMEPS is pleased to announce a Call for Papers: Political Movements in North Africa and the Sahel after the Arab Uprisings. The deadline to apply is Friday, Nov. 7th, COB. For more information on how to apply: pomeps.org/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers: Political Movements in North Africa and the Sahel after the Arab Uprisings - Project on Middle East Political Science
The last two decades have seen dramatic and transformative evolution in the forms, organizations, ideas and practices of political movements of all descriptions across North Africa and the Sahel. Pop...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
TWO DAYS LEFT to apply! POMEPS is pleased to announce a Call for Papers: Political Movements in North Africa and the Sahel after the Arab Uprisings. The deadline to apply is Friday, Nov. 7th, COB. For more information on how to apply: pomeps.org/call-for-pap...
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A FEW DAYS LEFT to apply! POMEPS is pleased to announce a Call for Papers: Political Movements in North Africa and the Sahel after the Arab Uprisings. The deadline to apply is Monday, Nov. 3rd. For more information on how to apply: pomeps.org/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers: Political Movements in North Africa and the Sahel after the Arab Uprisings - Project on Middle East Political Science
The last two decades have seen dramatic and transformative evolution in the forms, organizations, ideas and practices of political movements of all descriptions across North Africa and the Sahel. Pop...
pomeps.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A FEW DAYS LEFT to apply! POMEPS is pleased to announce a Call for Papers: Political Movements in North Africa and the Sahel after the Arab Uprisings. The deadline to apply is Monday, Nov. 3rd. For more information on how to apply: pomeps.org/call-for-pap...
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Cyprus is included in the @cbrl.bsky.social research areas so take a look & see if you can apply!
CBRL invites applications for Project Grants 2025! 📝
🔹Deadline: Friday - 09 Jan 2026
Learn more and apply:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/cbrl-pr...
🔹Deadline: Friday - 09 Jan 2026
Learn more and apply:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/cbrl-pr...
October 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Cyprus is included in the @cbrl.bsky.social research areas so take a look & see if you can apply!
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CBRL invites applications for Project Grants 2025! 📝
🔹Deadline: Friday - 09 Jan 2026
Learn more and apply:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/cbrl-pr...
🔹Deadline: Friday - 09 Jan 2026
Learn more and apply:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/cbrl-pr...
October 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
CBRL invites applications for Project Grants 2025! 📝
🔹Deadline: Friday - 09 Jan 2026
Learn more and apply:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/cbrl-pr...
🔹Deadline: Friday - 09 Jan 2026
Learn more and apply:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/cbrl-pr...
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Call for Tender 📢
We’re seeking a creative web designer or design team to co-create the Surfacing Zarqa digital exhibition.
🔸 Deadline: 31 Oct 2025
▪️ More details:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/call-fo...
We’re seeking a creative web designer or design team to co-create the Surfacing Zarqa digital exhibition.
🔸 Deadline: 31 Oct 2025
▪️ More details:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/call-fo...
Call for Tender for Surfacing Zarqa Digital Exhibition - CBRL
Tender Outline for Creation of Collaborative Website for Surfacing Zarqa Project Project Title: Surfacing Zarqa digital exhibition Opening Date for tender submissions: 25th September 2025 Closing Date...
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September 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Call for Tender 📢
We’re seeking a creative web designer or design team to co-create the Surfacing Zarqa digital exhibition.
🔸 Deadline: 31 Oct 2025
▪️ More details:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/call-fo...
We’re seeking a creative web designer or design team to co-create the Surfacing Zarqa digital exhibition.
🔸 Deadline: 31 Oct 2025
▪️ More details:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/call-fo...
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Ep. 4 of Learning from the Levant 🎙️
Prof. Yasir Suleiman speaks on how language, identity & place intersect in the Arab world — from Jerusalem’s street signs to the symbolic power of Arabic.
Listen here 👉
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Prof. Yasir Suleiman speaks on how language, identity & place intersect in the Arab world — from Jerusalem’s street signs to the symbolic power of Arabic.
Listen here 👉
on.soundcloud.com/xolcXcSHH0R8...
October 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Ep. 4 of Learning from the Levant 🎙️
Prof. Yasir Suleiman speaks on how language, identity & place intersect in the Arab world — from Jerusalem’s street signs to the symbolic power of Arabic.
Listen here 👉
on.soundcloud.com/xolcXcSHH0R8...
Prof. Yasir Suleiman speaks on how language, identity & place intersect in the Arab world — from Jerusalem’s street signs to the symbolic power of Arabic.
Listen here 👉
on.soundcloud.com/xolcXcSHH0R8...
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📢 Call for nominations: CBRL 2025 Dissertation Prizes!
🔸 Levantine Archaeology/History
🔸Contemporary Levantine Studies
Departments can nominate 1 UG + 1 Master’s dissertation (2024–25).
🔹 Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔹 Details: www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/call-fo...
🔸 Levantine Archaeology/History
🔸Contemporary Levantine Studies
Departments can nominate 1 UG + 1 Master’s dissertation (2024–25).
🔹 Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔹 Details: www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/call-fo...
Call for CBRL Dissertation Prize Nominations - CBRL
CBRL is pleased to announce the call for submissions to our undergraduate and master’s final-year dissertation prizes in: Levantine archaeology or history: the CBRL prize for a final-year master’s d...
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October 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
📢 Call for nominations: CBRL 2025 Dissertation Prizes!
🔸 Levantine Archaeology/History
🔸Contemporary Levantine Studies
Departments can nominate 1 UG + 1 Master’s dissertation (2024–25).
🔹 Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔹 Details: www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/call-fo...
🔸 Levantine Archaeology/History
🔸Contemporary Levantine Studies
Departments can nominate 1 UG + 1 Master’s dissertation (2024–25).
🔹 Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔹 Details: www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/call-fo...
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RHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants.
Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI
Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025
Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI
Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025
Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes - RHS
The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 5 December 2025 onwards. For f...
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October 1, 2025 at 7:49 AM
RHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants.
Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI
Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025
Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI
Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025
New online and open access from @contemplevant.bsky.social: "Weaponising sectarian emotions: Iran’s mobilisation strategy during the Syrian conflict (2012–2024)" by Seyed Ali Alavi: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Weaponising sectarian emotions: Iran’s mobilisation strategy during the Syrian conflict (2012–2024)
Conventional scholarly explorations into Iran’s involvement in the Syrian turmoil (2012–2024) primarily highlight geopolitical motivations, particularly Tehran’s strategic interest in preserving th...
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September 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
New online and open access from @contemplevant.bsky.social: "Weaponising sectarian emotions: Iran’s mobilisation strategy during the Syrian conflict (2012–2024)" by Seyed Ali Alavi: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Dear colleagues and friends,
We are pleased to announce the opening of a call for papers for a new Forum on Palestine: Agrarian Questions Unsettled, recently launched by the Journal of Peasant Studies and guest-edited by Fadia Panosetti, Taher Labadi, and Ahmed Heneiti.
We are pleased to announce the opening of a call for papers for a new Forum on Palestine: Agrarian Questions Unsettled, recently launched by the Journal of Peasant Studies and guest-edited by Fadia Panosetti, Taher Labadi, and Ahmed Heneiti.
September 12, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Dear colleagues and friends,
We are pleased to announce the opening of a call for papers for a new Forum on Palestine: Agrarian Questions Unsettled, recently launched by the Journal of Peasant Studies and guest-edited by Fadia Panosetti, Taher Labadi, and Ahmed Heneiti.
We are pleased to announce the opening of a call for papers for a new Forum on Palestine: Agrarian Questions Unsettled, recently launched by the Journal of Peasant Studies and guest-edited by Fadia Panosetti, Taher Labadi, and Ahmed Heneiti.
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On 17–18 Sep, CBRL Amman hosted a workshop with the University of Jordan and @bristoluni.bsky.social on the role of pharmacists in tackling substance use disorders in Jordan, identifying the top research priorities, and launching a new academic network.
Read More:
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The Role of Pharmacists in Addressing Substance Use Disorders in Jordan Workshop - CBRL
With generous support from the CBRL, the University of Jordan, in collaboration with the University of Bristol, organized a two-day workshop entitled “Co-Development of an Academic Network and Researc...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
On 17–18 Sep, CBRL Amman hosted a workshop with the University of Jordan and @bristoluni.bsky.social on the role of pharmacists in tackling substance use disorders in Jordan, identifying the top research priorities, and launching a new academic network.
Read More:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/the-rol...
Read More:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/the-rol...
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📢 The Social History Society Book Prize 2026 is now open for nominations!
Now in its 8th year, the prize celebrates the best books in social history & cultural history✨
More information here: socialhistory.org.uk/2025/09/24/b...
Now in its 8th year, the prize celebrates the best books in social history & cultural history✨
More information here: socialhistory.org.uk/2025/09/24/b...
Book Prize 2026 Open
We are delighted to announce that the Social History Society annual Book Prize has reopened and is seeking nominations. The prize is now in its eighth year and is awarded to the best book in Social…
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September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
📢 The Social History Society Book Prize 2026 is now open for nominations!
Now in its 8th year, the prize celebrates the best books in social history & cultural history✨
More information here: socialhistory.org.uk/2025/09/24/b...
Now in its 8th year, the prize celebrates the best books in social history & cultural history✨
More information here: socialhistory.org.uk/2025/09/24/b...
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The September 2025 edition of CBRL’s newsletter is out now! 📬
Catch up on our latest news, research, and upcoming events across the Levant. Check it out! 📰
mailchi.mp/cbrl/cbrl-se...
Catch up on our latest news, research, and upcoming events across the Levant. Check it out! 📰
mailchi.mp/cbrl/cbrl-se...
September 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The September 2025 edition of CBRL’s newsletter is out now! 📬
Catch up on our latest news, research, and upcoming events across the Levant. Check it out! 📰
mailchi.mp/cbrl/cbrl-se...
Catch up on our latest news, research, and upcoming events across the Levant. Check it out! 📰
mailchi.mp/cbrl/cbrl-se...
New online from @contemplevant.bsky.social: “Rethinking Wendy Pearlman’s ‘silencing fear’ in the rules of Hafez and Bashar al-Assad: an affective perspective”: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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September 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
New online from @contemplevant.bsky.social: “Rethinking Wendy Pearlman’s ‘silencing fear’ in the rules of Hafez and Bashar al-Assad: an affective perspective”: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
JOB: parental leave cover, September 2025-April 2026, Middle East and Ottoman history: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOQ256/l...
Lecturer in History at University of Greenwich
Apply for the Lecturer in History role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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September 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
JOB: parental leave cover, September 2025-April 2026, Middle East and Ottoman history: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOQ256/l...
New online and open access from @contemplevant.bsky.social : “You have your Gibran and I have my Gibran: representations of Kahlil Gibran, a century after The Prophet” by Ibrahim Abraham: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
You have your Gibran and I have my Gibran: representations of Kahlil Gibran, a century after The Prophet
First published in 1923, and subsequently selling over one hundred million copies in over one hundred languages, Kahlil Gibran’s book-length mystical poem, The Prophet, is one of the most popular l...
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September 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
New online and open access from @contemplevant.bsky.social : “You have your Gibran and I have my Gibran: representations of Kahlil Gibran, a century after The Prophet” by Ibrahim Abraham: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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We're experiencing an unbelievable deluge of submissions. At our journal we got ~200 per year in 2020. Last year it was 600. This year it's 800 with several months to go. So that's why we're slower to get stuff out for review.
September 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
We're experiencing an unbelievable deluge of submissions. At our journal we got ~200 per year in 2020. Last year it was 600. This year it's 800 with several months to go. So that's why we're slower to get stuff out for review.
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Peer reviewers are exhausted. It's common to spend *months* inviting reviewers, getting refusals, inviting more, maybe 12 or more, then 2 agree but 1 doesn't complete, so you go again. That's why your paper is in limbo. I'm very sorry, it's awful, but it's also an untenable academic labour issue.
September 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Peer reviewers are exhausted. It's common to spend *months* inviting reviewers, getting refusals, inviting more, maybe 12 or more, then 2 agree but 1 doesn't complete, so you go again. That's why your paper is in limbo. I'm very sorry, it's awful, but it's also an untenable academic labour issue.
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Applications for SHAPE Involve and Engage are now open. This innovative public engagement programme allows UK-based researchers to work in partnership with a gallery, archive, library or museum (GLAM organisation). Application deadline is 15 Oct. Learn more: https://bit.ly/47XA41y
September 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Applications for SHAPE Involve and Engage are now open. This innovative public engagement programme allows UK-based researchers to work in partnership with a gallery, archive, library or museum (GLAM organisation). Application deadline is 15 Oct. Learn more: https://bit.ly/47XA41y
Still ten days to apply for this writing workshop in Ankara, run by CBRL’s partners BIAA, focused on producing peer-review-ready articles on gender/culture/society aimed at international journals:
Dr Peter Cherry has three questions for you:
1️⃣ Does your research engage with #gender?
2️⃣ Are you a final-year PhD student at a university in Türkiye?
3️⃣ Did you finish your PhD within the last five years at a university in Türkiye?
➖
Appply at biaa.ac.uk/call-for-par...
1️⃣ Does your research engage with #gender?
2️⃣ Are you a final-year PhD student at a university in Türkiye?
3️⃣ Did you finish your PhD within the last five years at a university in Türkiye?
➖
Appply at biaa.ac.uk/call-for-par...
September 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Still ten days to apply for this writing workshop in Ankara, run by CBRL’s partners BIAA, focused on producing peer-review-ready articles on gender/culture/society aimed at international journals:
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Announcing a call for applications for the Spring 2026 POMEPS Virtual Research Workshops! The deadline to apply is October 15, 2025. For more information on how to apply, visit:
pomeps.org/call-for-app...
pomeps.org/call-for-app...
Call for Applications: Spring 2026 Virtual Research Workshops - Project on Middle East Political Science
The POMEPS Spring Virtual Research Workshop convenes online discussions of groups of three thematically linked journal article-length papers focusing on topics/cases in the MENA region. To provide fee...
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September 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Announcing a call for applications for the Spring 2026 POMEPS Virtual Research Workshops! The deadline to apply is October 15, 2025. For more information on how to apply, visit:
pomeps.org/call-for-app...
pomeps.org/call-for-app...