Aya Nassar

@ayanassar.bsky.social

We are looking forward to welcoming Dr Hashem Abushama (Oxford University) to the Department on February 3rd for an event organised by our Urban Worlds research cluster. Hashem will present on the theme 'Palestine: urban spatial disarticulations, national questions'.

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We are looking forward to welcoming Mark Griffiths (GPS, Newcastle University) to the Department on January 13th (2-4pm, room W010) to speak about his book Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine (University of Minnesota Press, 2025) in conversation with Dr. Lauren Martin from Durham Geography.

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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

The image shows an event poster for the annual lecture. Full details are available on the BRISMES website: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/events/annual-lecture/2025

Just out paper which might be of interest to those who work on Urban Geograpy, Geographies of Home, and affective thinking (especially ambivalence). It is a paper that considers the wonderful Iman Mersal's poetic oeuvre as a form of geography. academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

“Giving up the Idea of Home”: Ambivalent Geographies, Geopoetics, and Resisting Capture in the Cities of the Middle East

Abstract. This paper sits with the geopoetics of the Egyptian poet and writer Iman Mersal to grapple with affective ambivalence towards common objects of d

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Looking for ideas, recommendations, and inspirations on academic publishers who take 30-40 k word manuscripts ( similar to C. elements and P. pivots). For academic stuff, not trade.

We'll be sharing some highlights over the coming weeks. Meanwhile, work on #BRISMES2026 is already underway! We’re delighted to announce that next year’s conference will be hosted by the Middle East Institute at SOAS (London) from 23–25 June 2026. We hope to see you there!

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us at #BRISMES2025 — to our plenary and keynote speakers, our conference organising team and student volunteers, and to our amazing hosts at Newcastle University, including the support staff who made the event possible.

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‘The Book of Sana’a’: A Short-story Collection of Farce, Tricks, Myths, and More Gender-swapping tricksters, farcical hiring practices, detachable heads, and the serious science of speedbumpology populate the newly released Book of Sana’a: A City in Short Fiction, edited by Laura Kasinof and part…

‘The Book of Sana’a’: A Short-story Collection of Farce, Tricks, Myths, and More

Gender-swapping tricksters, farcical hiring practices, detachable heads, and the serious science of speedbumpology populate the newly released Book of Sana’a: A City in Short Fiction, edited by Laura Kasinof and part of Comma Press’s Reading the City series.

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