Join BRISMES Trustee Dr @ferasalkabani.bsky.social who’ll be chairing the the MEA’s webinar, Syria in Transition: One Year After the Assad Regime's Collapse, live from Damascus along with a panel of Syria experts at 13.00 GMT

All welcome; register here: us11.campaign-archive.com?u=391c72db26...

We are delighted to announce that Professor Ilan Pappé will deliver the 2025 BRISMES Annual Lecture: 'Why There is a Need for #Palestine Studies?'
Free to attend and open to all, but registration is essential.

📅Wednesday, 19 November 2025
🕕1800-1930 GMT
📍Online
🔗https://bit.ly/42QPHEU

Excellent collaboration between BRISMES, SARN UK and the Sussex 🙌🎉 Full details here 👇

Watch BRISMES Trustee, Dr @ferasalkabani.bsky.social, as he discusses Orientalism in the latest season of TV documentary, Empire Builders: The Untold Story of the Orientalists: Adventure, Art & Exploration 🎬

Watch the trailer 🎞️ here 👇

I'm on telly 📺 encore une fois 🙈☺️

Watch my contribution to the latest season of TV documentary, Empire Builders: The Untold Story of the Orientalists: Adventure, Art & Exploration 🎬

Watch the trailer 🎞️ here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUk9...

Have you read it yet? Murjana, a novel of medieval Baghdad, is Ghada Karmi’s latest work 📘

Listen to the celebrated Palestinian physician, author and activist tell us more about her book on Instagram ✨🪄

www.instagram.com/reel/DQMAvNZ...

From a PhD student to Co-Vice President & Chair of the Society's Committee for Academic Freedom, watch to Dr
Lewis Turner @newcastleuni.bsky.social tell us more about his BRISMES journey:

youtube.com/watch?v=2h9S...

Get involved. Sign up for membership here:
www.brismes.ac.uk/membership

Join BRISMES Trustee, Dr @ferasalkabani.bsky.social if you’re in @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org this Thursday 📚 📕

Details below 👇 All welcome 🙏

📣BRISMES Trustee, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Dr @ferasalkabani.bsky.social, is giving a book talk @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org

🗓️ Thursday, 9 October 2025; 17:00 – 18:45
📍 Room 10, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA

All welcome 🙏 📚

🎥 On Day 1 of the #BRISMES2025 Annual Conference, we’re screening Dr Joy Stacey’s She the Steadfast, a multimedia patchwork of layered history of gender & identities in Palestine 🇵🇸

🎦 Trailer: vimeo.com/1088731484?sha…

Full details here 👇 All welcome 🙏

📖 At this BRISMES#2025 Annual Conference, we’re offering a literary break: a reading by the author - Ghada Karmi - of her latest novel, Murjana (2025).

Join us at 🕦 11.30am on 🗓️ 2 July in📍HER. Lth 1 Lecture Theatre @nclpolitics.bsky.social

Chair: Dr @ferasalkabani.bsky.social

All welcome 🙏

📣There’s still time to submit a proposal to our AHRC-funded SARN UK International Conference at📍the University of Sussex.

Come and join us in beautiful #Brighton on 🗓️ 18-19 September 2025 🎊 🙏

‼️Deadline: 20 June 2025

Submit your proposal here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Join our AHRC-funded partner, SARN UK, on the 28th of April for an online symposium entitled, "Scholarship Beyond Borders: Resilience and Reform in Syrian Academia".

More details here: www.sarn-uk.org/.../ahrc-fun....

Register to attend here: universityofsussex.zoom.us/.../WN...

All welcome 🙏

Sussex people, come along on 7th April to hear me talk about my book alongside some great colleagues who will be talking about their own fabulous publications (including @ferasalkabani.bsky.social).

My first post here has got to be special ✨ Syria is free 🕊️ 💚❤️💚