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BRISMES brings together teachers, researchers, students, diplomats, journalists and others who deal professionally with the Middle East.

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BRISMES@brismes.bsky.social · last wk.

#AcademicFreedom | We're grateful to see the work of BRISMES referenced in the new article "Silencing Dissent: Academic Freedom and Transnational Suppression of Palestinian Solidarity" by Sevgi Doğan, Donatella della Porta and Federico Alagna. Check it out: shorturl.at/0FgLJ

Silencing Dissent: Academic Freedom and Transnational Suppression of Palestinian Solidarity | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core

Silencing Dissent: Academic Freedom and Transnational Suppression of Palestinian Solidarity

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BRISMES@brismes.bsky.social · 3w ago

Please sign and share this important petition opposing the proposed redundancies at the University of Exeter, including at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS). change.org/p/stop-redun... For context, read our previous letter to the University of Exeter VC👇

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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BRISMES@brismes.bsky.social · last mo.

BRISMES Council has written to the VC of @exeter.ac.uk to express our deep concern about the proposed reductions to academic posts in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, including within the Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies (IAIS). Read our letter: bit.ly/3SZnsS7 1/2

Page 1 of a BRISMES (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies) letter dated 2 July 2026 to Professor Lisa Roberts, Vice Chancellor of the University of Exeter. The letter expresses deep concern about proposed redundancies in the Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies (IAIS), highlighting the institute's international reputation for research, teaching, language provision, and leadership in Middle Eastern Studies, and warning that staff reductions would damage the discipline in the UK and beyond.
BRISMES@brismes.bsky.social · last mo.

🎉 We are delighted to share the news that Sena El Banna was awarded the 2025 BRISMES Conference Student Paper Prize, with Pauline Klose-Abdelghani receiving Honourable Mention. This prize supports BRISMES #student members in the development of peer-reviewed #research. 1/3

Promotional graphic announcing the 2025 BRISMES Conference Student Paper Prize recipients. Winner: Sena El Banna for Family afterlives of activism among Egyptian Islamist women since the Revolution, recognised for an original contribution to feminist and social movement scholarship. Honourable Mention: Pauline Klose-Abdelghani for Echoes of Erasure: ‘Modern Judeo-Arabic’ and Communal Belonging among Arabs of ’48 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, recognised for an original exploration of language, belonging and identity. Includes the BRISMES webpage: www.brismes.ac.uk/awards/conference
BRISMES@brismes.bsky.social · last mo.

🎉 Congratulations to all of our prize and scholarship recipients! It was a pleasure to celebrate the outstanding work of researchers in the BRISMES community at #BRISMES2026. Over the coming days, we will be highlighting each award and its recipients.

Five BRISMES prize and scholarship recipients stand together on the steps outside the SOAS Gallery, each holding their award certificate and smiling at the camera. From left to right are Danielle Andréa Krikorian, Florence Wolstenholme, Yasmine Hafez, Omar Abolnaga and Maram Theodory. The group is photographed in bright sunshine in front of the SOAS entrance during the BRISMES Annual Conference.
BRISMES@brismes.bsky.social · last mo.

TODAY: Iran in Context Part II: Politics and Counter Politics in Contemporary Iran with Naghmeh Sohrabi, Mohammad Ali Kadivar and Paniz Musawi Natanzi. Join us online at 17:00 BST. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

BRISMES@brismes.bsky.social · last mo.

📢 #OnlineEvent | Join BRISMES, @merip.bsky.social & SeSaMO for the second event in our #Iran in Context series titled "Politics and Counter-Politics in Contemporary Iran" with Naghmeh Sohrabi, Mohammad Ali Kadivar & Paniz Musawi Natanzi. 🗓 2 July 2026 ⏰ 17:00 – 18:30 BST 🔗 Register: bit.ly/OP_Iran2

Upcoming event MERIP, BRISMES, SeSaMO Iran Event Series Iran in Context Part II: Politics and Counter-Politics in Contemporary Iran 2 July 2026 17:00-18:30 BST Online For our next event, titled Iran in Context Part II: Politics and Counter-Politics in Contemporary Iran, we explore the politics of people’s mobilization and the political cleavages that characterize Iranian society to find out how ordinary people in Iran relate to big and small questions alike. We ask, for instance: can we talk about cultures of the Right and cultures of the Left in Iran? While examining the lines of divisions that cut across Iranian society, we will ask how different forms of mobilization have shaped contemporary Iran. Speakers: Mohammad Ali Kadivar (Boston College) Paniz Musawi Natanzi (University of Bern) Naghmeh Sohrabi (Brandeis University) More information and registration: bit.ly/OP_Iran2
BRISMES@brismes.bsky.social · last mo.

That's a wrap on #BRISMES2026! A huge thank you to all delegates, speakers, organisers, volunteers, and staff who made this year's conference such a success. We are grateful for the energy, insight, and conversations shared across the event. See you at BRISMES 2027!

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BRISMES@brismes.bsky.social · last mo.

"What is resistance when life itself is at stake?". Thank you to everyone who attended this powerful and important session “The Fire Will Never Cease: Defiant Ecologies in South Lebanon" at #BRISMES2026. It was a full house. Our heartfelt thanks to our invited speaker Dr Munira Khayyat.

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BRISMES@brismes.bsky.social · last mo.

Thank you to everyone who attended this incredibly moving session "Overkillability and the Genocide in Gaza: The Expansions of Spaces of Killing and the Logic of Evisceration" at #BRISMES2026. Standing ovation for our invited speaker Nadera Shalhoub- Kevorkian.

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