Call for Applications 📝 [ CBRL Training Programme on Heritage Documentation and Protection 2026 ] ⏰ Application deadline: 30 July 2026.

If you're a recent architecture graduate from Jordan, Palestine, or Syria, this is an opportunity to gain practical skills in architectural and urban heritage documentation through specialist training and field experience in Jordan.

Thank you to everyone who attended yesterday's lecture at CBRL Amman, titled What Can Jordan’s Bedouin Teach the World About Social Media? delivered by Dr Geoffrey Hughes. We appreciate your presence and engagement, which contributed to an insightful and enriching discussion throughout the evening.

New online at @contemplevant.bsky.social: "Euphemistic language and strategic communication in televised political election debates during Jordan’s 2024 elections" by Balqees al-Noubani, Marwan Jarrah and Sukayna Ali www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Euphemistic language and strategic communication in televised political election debates during Jordan’s 2024 elections

This study examines the use and pragmatic impact of euphemistic strategies in 15 televised debate episodes aired during the campaign period preceding Jordan’s 2024 parliamentary elections. Through ...

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Update: I've just discovered that there is so much of this pseudo-academic spam coming in that the Contemporary Levant email has dumped a bunch of real submissions into the junk folder.

Contemporary Levant@contemplevant.bsky.social · 2w ago

As a journal editor, it is incredibly depressing to see the expansion of AI slop in the academic field. What I'm noticing at the moment is that it seems to come in waves, presumably because someone within a network finds out about a tool and their contacts start to use it: at the moment, the two...

As a journal editor, it is incredibly depressing to see the expansion of AI slop in the academic field. What I'm noticing at the moment is that it seems to come in waves, presumably because someone within a network finds out about a tool and their contacts start to use it: at the moment, the two...

The Funds for Women Graduates Theodora Bosanquet Bursary is available to PG women studying History or English Lit to finance up to 4 weeks of basic accommodation in London in summer 2027. Email grants@ffwg.org.uk for an application form between 31 August and 31 October 2026. Details: www.ffwg.org.uk

Join us at SOAS as a new Lecturer in Arabic Literature at SOAS (0.4 FTE, fixed term until 31.8.2029) This role involves teaching, advising students of Arabic and supervising dissertations in Arabic literature, Middle Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/910500

New online and open access from @contemplevant.bsky.social: "Tiberias’ Nakba: authority and health in the aftermath of the 1934 flood" by Ahmad Mahmoud: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tiberias’ Nakba: authority and health in the aftermath of the 1934 flood

Though triggered by the forces of nature, the 1934 Tiberias flood was fundamentally a sociopolitical and administrative event that reshaped urban life in Mandate Palestine. This article argues that...

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Join us for our upcoming lecture: [ What Can Jordan’s Bedouin Teach the World About Social Media? ] 👤 Speaker: Dr Geoffrey Hughes Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Exeter 🔸 Wednesday, 15 July 2026 🔸 6:00 PM (Amman) | 4:00 PM (London) 🔸 CBRL Amman Institute & Online via Zoom

New online at @contemplevant.bsky.social: Tigran Sarukhanyan reviews Armenian refugees in French Mandate Syria: statelessness and nation-building in the Middle East by Victoria Abrahamyan, pub. @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Armenian refugees in French mandate Syria: statelessness and nation-building in the Middle East

Published in Contemporary Levant (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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A reminder - because the deadline is Tuesday! - that my great team and I at Staffs are looking for a lecturer/SL in Intelligence Studies, who can also teach Security Studies. 2-year, full-time position.

Tony Craig@tonycraig.bsky.social · last mo.

Just advertised, a job as Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Intelligence Studies and International Security. jobs.staffs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Exciting job, in a great team, but with a short turnaround. Applications close 7 July.

Rare and attractive job opportunity: Associate Professor in Middle Eastern Politics at the University of Oslo. Deadline 15 September www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Associate Professor in Middle Eastern Politics (303281) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor in Middle Eastern Politics (303281), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2026

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Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships are open. This fellowship is a three-year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early-career researchers in the humanities or social sciences. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4xWduAS

An actual academic job! At a UK university! Temporary but full-time! Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Intelligence Studies. Deadline for applications is very soon. Please share widely. Contact me for more info. uk.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk...

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Intelligence Studies - Stoke-on-Trent - Indeed.com

Apply for the Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Intelligence Studies job in Stoke-on-Trent! Learn more about the job description, salary and job details to see if you qualify on Indeed today.

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Contemporary Levant in 2025:

Engaging the public in humanities & social sciences feels more important than ever. So we are offering £8k grants for researchers to work with galleries, libraries, archives, museums or performing arts organisations to do this. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

SHAPE Involve and Engage

A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.

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Very excited to announce that @cbrl.bsky.social/Contemporary Levant have received funding to run a major conference on environmental histories of the Middle East Mandates. CFP coming soon - watch this space!

Applications are invited for a 3-year, non-renewable, Academic Career Development Fellow in the global politics/international relations of the Middle East and North Africa, or of South Asia. For more information and to apply: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55579/

Jerusalem Quarterly is seeking an Assistant Editor (wfh, paid role). Deadline June 9th, full details available here: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...

New online from @contemplevant.bsky.social: “The application of the Ottoman iskan policy in Syria: Salamiyya and its Ismaʿili population” by Ula Zeir: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The application of the Ottoman iskan policy in Syria: Salamiyya and its Ismaʿili population

In 1851, a group of Ottoman regional officials and leaders of the Hajjawi Ismaʿili community from Latakia assembled outside the fort of Salamiyya to launch an ambitious programme of resettlement of...

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Who makes “Made in Jordan”? 🧵 Behind global sportswear and outdoor brands are complex production systems shaped by migrant labour.

Six days left to apply for this very cool #envhist postdoc with us here @greenhouseuis.net - it's a great opportunity to join a vibrant and active research environment with much support for career development and a good community.

Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities@greenhouseuis.net · 5mo ago

We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum

CfA: International Visiting Fellowship Programme in the History of Knowledge (Lund) We invite early career/postdoctoral scholars to join us at LUCK during a period of one week between 2 November and 6 November, 2026. Read more here: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2026/04/13/c...

New out open access from @contemplevant.bsky.social: "Stakes of origins: how interactions with states (un)made a family in the interwar eastern Mediterranean" by Orçun Can Okan www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Stakes of origins: how interactions with states (un)made a family in the interwar eastern Mediterranean

Spanning the 1880s to the 1930s, this article examines the experiences of a family in the eastern Mediterranean whose ‘origins’ acquired new legal significance amid state efforts to categorise and ...

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The British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants is now open for applications, supported by DSIT, @leverhulme.ac.uk and @wellcometrust.bsky.social. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4t0MDRl

Sad to hear of the passing of Dame Averil Cameron, a great historian and first president of @cbrl.bsky.social:

Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran@sasanianshah.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sad news in the middle of all the sad news: just got word of the passing of the great late Roman/Byzantine historian, Dame Prof. Averil Cameron. She was an amazing and inspiring scholar, a first rate human being, and a kind senior scholar who always treated juniors like colleagues. Beyond sad.

Call for Applications! The Centre for Lebanese Studies invites PhD students to a two day PHD Retreat in Cambridge  For more info:  https://lebanesestudies.com/events/two-day-phd-retreat-in-cambridge/

The programme for our Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Study Day is now up on the SFPS website, and it's looking like a really impressive set of talks! Registration form linked on the site: sfps.org.uk/2026/04/02/s...

Eid Mubarak from CBRL ✨🌙 May this Eid be filled with warmth, gratitude, and special moments for you and your families. - On the occasion of Eid Al Fitr, CBRL Amman Institute will be closed on Sunday and Monday, 22-23 March 2026. We will reopen on Tuesday, 24 March 2026, from 9 AM to 4 PM.