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The @OfficialBrismes Committee on #AcademicFreedom has published a statement on universities' repression of #studentencampments and protests in opposition to Israel's war on #Gaza . Read the statement in full:

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BRISMES has issued a statement warning of the danger of massive ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank. We are deeply concerned that, under the cover of the Gaza War, the ongoing expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank will intensify. 1/4

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BRISMES is devasted by the death of prominent Palestinian intellectual Refaat Alareer.

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#AcademicFreedom | We have written to @maxplanckpress and @MaxAnthropology to express our deep concern about the decision to sever relations with Prof Ghassan Hage ( @anthroprofhage ), a world-leading anthropologist and social theorist. Read the letter: 1/5

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BRISMES stands against the #scholasticide in #Gaza . We are appalled by the way that the destruction of Gaza’s education system is being celebrated by Israeli soldiers.

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Israeli sergeants walking through the now blown up & destroyed Al-Azhar University mock #scholasticide , suggesting that a new academic semester in Gaza is never to start again. From the ruins of Azhar their genocidal intent is yet again live-streamed

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📢BRISMES has published a statement in response to a worrying new trend of attacks on #decolonial and #anticolonial scholarship and perspectives in relation to analyses of the situation in #Israel - #Palestine . Read the statement: 1/7

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The BRISMES Council & Committee on Academic Freedom have today released a statement on the ongoing attack on free speech on UK campuses. Read the statement: (1/3)

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#OnlineEvent | 'The Gaza War and Academic Freedom' Join us next week for this webinar with Hassan Jabareen, Laurie Brand, Giovanni Fassina, Andrea Teti, Lewis Turner and Neve Gordon. 🗓️14 November, 17:00-18:30 (UK time) More info and registration:

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‘Entire social worlds, entire Palestinian communities have been unarticulated because a “presentist” historiography has been imposed on us, where we must constantly prove that the nakba happened and we exist!’ - @meznaqato in our first plenary #Brismes2024

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BRISMES stands in solidarity with #StudentEncampments and calls on university and college leaders to respect their freedom of expression and assembly and to constructively engage with their demands. Read our statement: 1/2

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Thank you to everyone who attended this vital session on #Gaza in the Face of #Genocide at #BRISMES2024 . It was a full house. Our heartfelt thanks to our invited speakers @MalakaShwaikh @akramquds @NimerSultany @RafeefZiadah and @meznaqato for their time and their words.

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📢BRISMES and @elsclegal have published a joint report demonstrating the harmful impacts of the IHRA definition of antisemitism on #academicfreedom & the rights to lawful speech in relation to Israel-Palestine in UK universities. #NOIHRA Report: (1/9)

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#AcademicFreedom | We have written to @sheffhallamuni to express our concerns about reports that the university is investigating Shahd Abusalama and that the class she was scheduled to teach has been cancelled 'until further notice'. Read the letter:

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2 years

We are delighted to announce that our 2023 Annual #Conference will be hosted by @UniofExeter from 3-5 July 2023. A call for panels and abstracts will be shared soon. Read more about the conference theme 'Ecology, Crisis, and Power in the #MiddleEast ' here:

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#AcademicFreedom | We have written to @ucu General Secretary @DrJoGrady regarding the profound threats to #freespeech & #academicfreedom that academics & students are facing since the outbreak of violence in Palestine & Israel on 7 October. Read more: 1/3

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BRISMES conference goers in St Andrews supporting freedom of expression for all in solidarity with Alaa Abd El-Fattah at a critical point in his hunger strike and researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy who was sentenced today to 3 years in prison #FreeAlaa #FreeAhmedSamir

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3 years

BRISMES views with grave concern the latest escalation in Israel/Palestine, noting that yet again Palestinians are paying a disproportionate price. A statement from BRISMES Council was emailed to members yesterday and is available to read on our website:

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#AcademicFreedom | We have written to the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of @univofstandrews to express deep concern over the University's response to Rector Stella Maris’ recent communication to students. Read our letter: 1/4

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#BRISMES2023 conference attendees stand in solidarity with Salma al-Shehab, a PhD student from @UniversityLeeds , who is serving 27 years in prison in #SaudiArabia for tweeting in support of women human rights defenders. #FreeSalma More info from @ALQST_En :

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BRISMES rejects the IHRA definition of antisemitism as unfit for purpose and welcomes Diaspora Alliance’s intervention against the Department for Education tender to implement the IHRA definition of antisemitism in universities and schools in the UK. 1/3

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#AcademicFreedom | We express our solidarity with Dr Muriel Asseburg of @SWPBerlin who has come under attack by the Israeli embassy in Berlin following comments that she made in a podcast discussing the situation in the Middle East. Read the statement:

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#AcademicFreedom | We have written the German Federal Minister of Education and Research to express our profound concern over remarks made in the Bild-Zeitung and the ensuing defamation campaign against academic staff in Berlin. Read our letter: 1/3

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The BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom & SeSaMO have sent a joint letter to the President and Rector of @HebrewU to express our profound concern over the decision to suspend Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian from teaching at the university. Read more:

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It was a great pleasure to present @LalehKhalili with the BRISMES Award for Services to Middle Eastern Studies at the #BRISMES2023 conference reception. This honorary award is presented annually in recognition of outstanding services to #MiddleEasternStudies . 1/2

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#AcademicFreedom | We have written to representatives of four parliamentary groups to express profound concern over a draft joint parliamentary resolution that claims to aim to protect, preserve and strengthen Jewish life in #Germany . Read our letter: 1/4

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"When the bombs rain down, @SyriaCivilDef rushes in": film screening on the White Helmets @frontlineclub , 5 December

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A really important list of readings and other links on anti-black racism in the Middle East.

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#AcademicFreedom I We've written to the University of St Andrews to express deep concern over its decision to remove its Rector, Ms Stella Maris, from the University Court and her trustee status. Read our letter: 1/3

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#AcademicFreedom | We have written to Israeli universities, colleges and members of Israel's Council for HE to express profound concern over the suspension & investigation Palestinian citizens of Israel, who are students/staff in HE institutions. Read: 1/3

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The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies is seeking an assistant editor who can help with the refereeing process for articles relating to the Arab world, and in particular Palestine/Israel.(1/3)

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🚨Call for Papers!🚨 The organisers of the 'Early Career Researchers’ Interdisciplinary Seminar Series on Politics of the Middle East' @PoliticsoftheM1 invite Postdoc, PhD, and advanced Masters candidates to apply for this online seminar. Deadline 20 October 2020. Details 👇

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#AcademicFreedom | We have written to the president and rector of @HebrewU to express our profound concern over their letter of 29 October to Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and its capacity to incite verbal and physical violence against her. 1/4

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Marking the 20-year anniversary of the invasion of #Iraq , BRISMES invites members & non-members to the 2023 BRISMES Annual Lecture 'Re-membering Iraq: On the Wounds of War' by @sinanantoon . 🗓️16 November, 17:30-19:00 GMT (online) More info & registration:

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📢 CALL FOR PAPERS: BRISMES Conference 2022, hosted by @MecacsStA , (St Andrews). 'Exploring and Contesting the (re)production of coloniality in the Middle East: Borders, Transnationalism, and Resistance' Submissions open Sep 13th. Find out more here:

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We are very excited to announce that the 2020 BRISMES Annual Lecture will be given by Dr Ziba Mir-Hosseini on Weds 21 October (online event). Provisional title: 'Recovering Gender Equality in Islam: Conversations with Reformist Thinkers'. Registration details to follow soon.

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#OnlineEvent | 'What is Transnational Feminist Solidarity Today? A dialogue with and of Iranian feminists' Join us for this roundtable discussion responding to the recent uprisings taking place in #Iran . 🗓️17 Oct 2022, 17:00 More info & registration:

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Come and join us for the BRISMES annual lecture on 18 November @KingsCollegeLon with the fantastic @LalehKhalili speaking about 'The Corporeal Life of Commerce at Sea'. Book tickets here:

The Corporeal Life of Commerce at Sea

Join The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) for their annual lecture at King's College London.

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📢We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2021 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British University in the previous calendar year (1/3)

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We are delighted to announce the call for papers for the 2019 @OfficialBrismes CONFERENCE! The submission system is now live until 8/11/18 - please send us your paper&panel proposals, and join us at @ArabicatLeeds

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As part of a collective attempt at BRISMES to think through how black radical and abolitionist scholarship, coloniality, and race/racism operate in and with studies of the MENA region, we have produced 'Race and the Middle East - A Reading list': (1/3)

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On 2 July, following the @OfficialBRISMES AGM, BRISMES members and conference attendees at #BRISMES2024 stood in solidarity with Palestine calling for #CeasefireNOW #StopTheGenocide #FreedomforPalestine 1/2

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On 9 May, we wrote to @AvHStiftung to express our deep concern about the prejudicial process for choosing the winners of its Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award & the treatment of @FakhreddineHuda who was nominated for this award. Read our letter: 1/9

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BRISMES Forms Partnership with the UK's First Network for Syrian Academics & Researchers (SARN UK) @SyrianAcademics through an AHRC-funded grant. More details here 👇

BRISMES Partnership with First UK Network for Syrian Academics & Researchers

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The CfP for BRISMES 2020 is live! We're really excited about this year's theme. The location will be the University of Kent, in the World Heritage Site of Canterbury (UK). Hope to see you there! @MESA_1966 @Medit_Politics @OxfordMEC @LSEMiddleEast

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#AcademicFreedom | We have written to @BerlinUAlliance to express our profound concern over the continued restriction of protests against the war in #Gaza and actions in #solidarity with the Palestinian people on campuses in #Berlin . Read our letter: 1/4

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📢Abstract submissions for our 2022 conference are now open! For a chance to join us and @MecacsStA in St Andrews please submit your paper/panel/roundtable by noon(GMT) 22 Nov.

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Our statement of concern regarding the #IHRA working definition of antisemitism and threats to #academicfreedom in Middle East Studies re: criticisms of #Israel @nevegordon @SharriPlonski @RafeefZiadah @MalakaShwaikh @a_teti @sham_marral @ZTizro @alamsaleh1 @ncpratt

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#Research | Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine (co-edited by @jeremywildeman & @AyyashMohannad ) explores Canada-Palestine relations through a settler colonial lens, arguing there are direct parallels between the two colonies Read more:

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Join us on 17 October for this rountable responding to the recent uprisings taking place in #Iran , asking how we can engage in meaningful forms of solidarity through transnational, feminist, and queer movements and perspectives. More info & registration:

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📢Upcoming event: "New Voices in Middle East Studies" 📅13 January 2021, 4pm-6pm (GMT) We are delighted to announce this roundtable bringing together @yarahawari @marcowenjones @KamranMatin and @meznaqato to reflect on the legacies of the Arab Revolutions of 2010-11... (1/2)

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Registration for the 2021 BRISMES Online Conference is now open 🎉 We have over 100 sessions exploring 'Knowledge, Power, and Middle Eastern Studies' lined up for you! Register through our website, by April 5th for speakers and June 20th for non-speakers.

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Wrapping up after an incredible week, with over 150 hours of essential conversations on Knowledge, Power and Middle Easten Studies. Connections made, knowledge shared, perspectives challenged. Hopefully next year we will be able to do it in person. Stay tuned! #BRISMES2021

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#AcademicFreedom I We've asked the German Federal Minister of Education and Research for a more comprehensive engagement with the issues raised in our earlier letter, regarding a defamation campaign directed at academic staff in Berlin. Read our letter 1/3

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#MESNET2017 #Panel4 @stradedellest ( @Unibocconi ) on The Uprisings in Egypt: Popular Committees and Independent Trade Unions

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💡Save the date!💡 Register for our upcoming student event, 'Securing a Post-Doc Position after the PhD: Demystifying the Application Process' on 5 Nov 13:00-14:30, with @drsaraharens @lorenzo_feltrin @meznaqato @MalakaShwaikh & Charles Tripp Organised by @KasmSaeb @sham_marral

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📢 We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2020 BRISMES Annual Lecture with Dr Ziba Mir-Hosseini. Please register to attend using the following link: We look forward to seeing you online!

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We are pleased to feature some of our upcoming presenters at the annual #brismes2024 conference🎉 Aya Nassar presents” Kites, billboards and bridges: Reading the city’s curfew through the glitch” Photos in collaboration with Azza Ezzat ( @azzaezzat .art)

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We have written to @RishiSunak @David_Cameron @grantshapps and @GillianKeegan calling on them to put pressure on Israel to ensure the immediate end of the systematic destruction of the Palestinian education system in the Gaza Strip. Read the letter: 1/3

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ℹ️Briefing paper available online prepared in consultation with @elsclegal , BRISMES Campaigns and @LondonUCU representatives for employees in Higher Education in England & Wales: 'Defending Your Advocacy on #Palestine in the #HigherEducation Context' 1/3

Employee FAQ: Briefing on Palestine Advocacy V1.1

DEFENDING YOUR ADVOCACY ON PALESTINE IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION CONTEXT Briefing prepared in consultation with ELSC, BRISMES Campaigns and London Region UCU representatives for employees in higher...

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Signatories are invited for a petition calling for the UK Government to include education on Britain’s role in the Middle East in the History curriculum:

Sign the Petition

Gavin Williamson: include Britain’s role in the Middle East in the History curriculum

www.change.org

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#AcademicFreedom | We have written to @HRK_aktuell to express our profound concern over the continued restriction of protests against the war in Gaza and actions in solidarity with the Palestinian people on the campuses of German universities. Read more:

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📢Announcement 📅The BRISMES 2021 conference will now take place 5-9 July 2021 and will be ONLINE. Everyone who was accepted for the 2020 conference is automatically accepted for the 2021 conference & the conference rates, schedule, & registration will be announced in early 2021

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We are happy to announce our speakers for the BRISMES Student Mentoring Event Zoom Webinar: Laleh Khalili, Rafeef Ziadah, Sarah Irving, Feras Alkabani, Giulia Guariento Tues 16 June 1.30-3pm BST All welcome! Please register in advance by 5pm 12 June BST

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📢 #OnlineEvent | "Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial". BRISMES together with @europeanisa and @BisaCpd are delighted to host Dr Somdeep Sen for this event. 📅17 Nov 2021 ⏲️18:00 (GMT) More info and registration:

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#AcademicFreedom | We are very pleaed to share the news from @ShahdAbusalama below! Shahd's case further demonstrates the need for UK universities to rescind the use of the #IHRAdefinition as a tool in complaints and disciplinary procedures.

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We're celebrating a fantastic victory for Palestine today 🇵🇸🎉 @sheffhallamuni will not be progressing with any further investigation of the malicious smears that have been levelled against me. 1/3 #FreePalestine #InSupportOfShahd

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📢We are excited to announce, our 2021 Conference Programme is now live and can be accessed here: Make sure you don't miss out on your last chance to register! The deadline is June 20th

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Tomorrow at 5pm UK time BRISMES will be joined by @AdalahEnglish @AcademiaFor @elsclegal @MESA_1966 & SeSaMO for a discussion on the #Gaza War and #AcademicFreedom . Please share the details with colleagues and join us if you can. More info & registration:

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We are very pleased to share a recording of our recent roundtable 'New Voices in Middle East Studies' with @yarahawari @meznaqato and @KamranMatin . The recording is available to watch here:

New Voices in Middle East Studies

This is a recording of the roundtable 'New Voices in Middle East Studies' organised by the BRISMES Outreach and Pedagogy Subcommittee. 0:08 - Introduction by...

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We are delighted to announce that Prof Salman Sayyid will deliver a keynote address at the 2019 @OfficialBrismes conference! Prof Sayyid is the first Professor of Decolonial Thought in the UK @UniversityLeeds & is known for his work on Critical Muslim Studies @ArabicatLeeds

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#BRISMES2023 What an amazing conference! Thank you to all our delegates for attending and making the conference what it was. A huge thanks to Rosa Sansone and Rebecca Howarth, to our amazing volunteers and to our colleagues in @ExeterIAIS and @EventExeter ! See you in July 2024!

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. @OfficialBrismes supports Palestinian academics in Israel who have called on the leadership of @HebrewU to publicly withdraw their statements regarding Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian and to ensure a safe space for students and faculty. Read their letter:

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Preparations well underway for the Annual Conference @KingsDMES London next week. New Approaches to Studying the #MiddleEast #brismes2018 Conference packs prepared and volunteers briefed. We hope to see you there!

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Following heartening news of Patrick George Zaki's release, BRISMES & SeSaMO have written to Egyptian, EU & Italian authorities to express deep concerns regarding the detention of 1000s of other students, academics, researchers & human rights defenders in #Egypt . #FreeThemAll 1/2

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BRISMES is devastated by the destruction in the aftermath of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Our thoughts are with our friends and colleagues and all who have been impacted. (1/2)

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"Thinking about publishing your first academic article or book?"💡Our next BRISMES Graduate Zoom event is taking place on 22 Feb, 14.00-15.30 GMT with Stephanie Cronin @NadjeAlAli @MariaSoleMarsh @SharriPlonski @lewiseturner . Open to all, register here:

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BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom has written to Universities Minister @michelledonelan re: our concerns about attacks on university autonomy and academic freedom in light of imposition of #IHRA definition of antisemitism @ucu @warwickuni @UniversitiesUK @MattWestern_

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Have you started preparing your abstracts for the BRISMES 2020 Conference? Deadline less than 4 weeks away on 25 Nov! An exciting new development for this year's conference is that we will be accepting a number of panels in languages other than English.

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We are delighted to announce that Marianne Dhenin has been selected as the winner of the 2021 BRISMES Conference Student Paper Prize for her paper: ‘Attention to Motherhood’: Maternal and Child Welfare, Civil Society, and the State in Twentieth-Century Egypt.

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For those of you who haven't registered to the BRISMES Conference - you can join us for the live-stream of the launch of BRISMES Campaigns on YouTube, from 3.15 -5.15pm (BST) tomorrow, Wed 7th July. Free of charge and no registration need! #BRISMES2021

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In the face of grave threats to the region’s populations, BRISMES calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and for the international community to guarantee the protection of the Palestinian population in the West Bank. Please share widely. 4/4

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New article from @timeshighered : #Academia in #Gaza ‘has been destroyed’ by Israeli ‘educide’ “...every single #highereducation institution in Gaza is believed to have either been destroyed or severely damaged since the invasion began.” Read more:

Academia in Gaza ‘has been destroyed’ by Israeli ‘educide’

Palestinian scholars mourn ‘deliberate targeting’ of higher education but pledge to rebuild once war is over

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We are pleased to announce that @AcademiaFor will be joining our panel for this important discussion next week on the #Gaza war and #academicfreedom . There are still registration spots available so please share widely. More info and registration:

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📢Registration is now open for the BRISMES 2020 Conference! Early bird deadline: 28 February. Speakers: Check your inboxes/spam folders for the registration email with a link to register. Panel organisers may like to check in with their panel to ensure everyone has received mail

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Registration is now open for the #BRISMES2024 annual conference! 🎉We will be here all day in the FASS building, please stop and register. Looking forward to an amazing three days of presentations!

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Our 2023 Annual Conference theme is ‘Ecology, Crisis, and Power in the Middle East'. We also invite proposals on any topic related to the Middle East and North Africa. Social sciences/humanities scholars and professionals working in the environmental field are welcome to submit!

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Read our letter to the VC of @durham_uni protesting the abrupt ending of admin services to BRISMES following the resolution put forward by BRISMES members to endorse an academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions. #academicfreedom

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On the 10th anniversary of the Arab uprisings, here is some essential reading to help us understand why and how they happened and what have been the consequences. #25Jan #Egypt #Syria #Libya #Tunisia

12 books you need to read about the Arab Spring

Turmoil often sparks fresh literature and writing - and the Arab uprisings of the past decade are no exception

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Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize!🎉 - Joint Winners: Suhad Bishara and Maia Holtermann Entwistle - Joint Runners Up: Hashem Abushama and Razan Ghazzawi - Honourable Mention: Elizabeth Marteijn Read more: (1/3)

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Join us online at 18:00 (GMT) tomorrow, 17 November, for @ssen03 's book talk "Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial" jointly hosted by BRISMES, @europeanisa , @BisaCpd and @GlobalDev_ISA . ℹ️Remember to register:

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3 years

Our annual conference begins in less than an hour! With over 80 sessions, 300 speakers and 3 incredible keynotes, this year's conference promises to be truly spectacular. Keep an eye out for updates and highlights throughout the week and please use the hashtag #BRISMES2021

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2 years

Two weeks left to register for the 2022 Annual BRISMES conference held with @MecacsStA at St Andrews on Exploring and Contesting the (Re)Production of Coloniality in the Middle East. We have an exciting 3-day program from 4-6 July! A short thread on what we have lined up:

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11 months

📢 #BRISMES2024 : 2 weeks left to submit proposals for individual papers, panels and roundtables for our annual conference. 🗓️ CFP deadline: 14 December 2023 🕐 17 PM (UK Time) 📝 Submit here: Please share widely!

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8 months

We find the decision to terminate relations with Professor Hage in breach of academic freedom and indeed of MPS’s own mission. MPS also have a duty to uphold Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees #freedomofexpression for all. 2/5

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2 years

The BRISMES Committee on #AcademicFreedom has published a statement expressing its grave concerns about the findings of the investigation into alleged antisemitism in the National Union of Students ( @nusuk ) issued by Rebecca Tuck KC. (1/2)

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5 years

📢In light of the extraordinary context of Covid-19, BRISMES will be postponing the Annual Conference until 2021. You can read our full statement on the website. We will also email all delegates. Everyone who has registered will receive a refund.

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8 months

Universities have a legal obligation to uphold #academicfreedom and #freedomofexpression for staff and students, which is paramount for the pursuit of knowledge. Please share this statement with colleagues, students and with department heads in your institutions. 7/7

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1 year

Should the war develop into a regional conflict, the ethnic cleansing currently underway is likely to dramatically intensify, with Israeli forces pushing West Bank Palestinians out of their homes and possibly across international borders. 3/4

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4 years

BRISMES Council joins academics in Australia and internationally in expressing our concern about the safety and well-being of Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert. We urge individual members of BRISMES to sign the petition in support of Dr Moore-Gilbert:

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1 year

This warning is based on our extensive collective expertise as scholars of Palestine/Israel, and is issued in line with our ethical responsibilities to educate the public & promote public awareness of significant issues in the region, while encouraging cooperation & exchange. 2/4

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2 years

📢 Abstract submissions for our 2023 BRISMES Annual Conference are now open! Join us and @ExeterIAIS for an exciting conference on 3-5 July 2023! Find out more here:

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