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@ferasalkabani.bsky.social join us to discuss his book. We'll talk about how cross-cultural encounters shaped understandings of #homosexuality from the 19th century to the aftermath of the Arab Spring. 📅 Tue, 9 June, 7pm 🌍The Southern Belle & Online 🎟 #Free www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/richard-bu...

Delighted to announce that my first monograph, Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic Desire, is now available in paperback 🎊 Get your copy for only £23.19 📕📘 📚 (with this discount code: GLR BD8) directly from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/richard-b...

Watch Dr Farah Alrajeh tell us about her experience attending last year’s BRISMES Conference as a non-presenting delegate. A year on, she is now presenting her work at this year’s Conference @soasuni.bsky.social Register to attend as a non-presenting delegate: www.brismes.ac.uk/news/2026-br...

There’s still time to submit an abstract for this year’s SARN UK Conference 🙌 Conference Themes: Syria in Transition: Knowledge, Memory, and the Everyday Aftermath” 🕛📆 Abstracts are due by 23:59 BST on 17 May 2026 ✨For more details and to apply, please go to: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📣 CFP: SARN UK Conference 2026 📣 📆 When: 17-18 September 2026 📍Where: @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org 🎭Theme: Syria in Transition (more details👇) 💻Submit abstract here: forms.gle/CYxwrgtDs9RH... 📅Submission deadline: 17 May 2026 🖼️Artwork by Issam Kourbaj

@bordercrossings.bsky.social presents a new interactive performance 3-8 March. Created with Syrian refugee women & featuring live debate, it reimagines The Suppliants — Aeschylus’ 2,500-year-old play, to explore asylum and democracy today. bordercrossings.org.uk/whats-on/programme/suppliants-syria

🤔 Still undecided about submitting an abstract to the BRISMES 2026 Conference @SOAS? There’s still time (the deadline is 18 January 2026), and here’s why you should submit a paper! ✨🪄 Submit your abstract by the 18th of January 2026 via this link: www.brismes.ac.uk/conference/a...

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 👇

BRISMES@brismes.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🎊 Congratulations to our AHRC-funded partner, the Syrian Academics and Researchers' Network in the UK (SARN UK), on the outstanding success of its international Conference at the University of Sussex last month 👏✨ Read our press release here 👇 www.brismes.ac.uk/news/brismes...

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...

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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

Dr Lewis Turner, Co-Vive President of BRISMES

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

Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge@camsociology.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We are pleased to announce that Dr Feras Alkabani, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature (University of Sussex), is giving a book talk at the Centre for Islamic Studies (University of Cambridge) at 5.00pm on Thursday, 9 October. Please see the poster for more details.

📣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 🕊️ 💚❤️💚