CBRL - Council for British Research in the Levant

Join us next Monday at CBRL for our next public lecture! 📢

Our team are just back from fieldwork in SE #Jordan! They were east of Bayir looking at a series of #Roman camps we first identified on satellite imagery in 2022. Look out for news of this survey in our future posts.

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Call for CBRL Dissertation Prize Nominations - CBRL CBRL is pleased to announce the call for submissions to our undergraduate and master’s final-year dissertation prizes in:   Levantine archaeology or history: the CBRL prize for a final-year master’s d...

📢 Call for nominations: CBRL 2025 Dissertation Prizes!
🔸 Levantine Archaeology/History
🔸Contemporary Levantine Studies

Departments can nominate 1 UG + 1 Master’s dissertation (2024–25).

🔹 Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
🔹 Details: www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/call-fo...

Ten Years of Community Engagement through Sela’s Work in Jordan - CBRL Over the past decade, Sela for Training and Protection of Heritage has pioneered a model of community-based heritage conservation in Jordan, transforming the way local communities engage with archaeol...

For more details:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/event/ten-ye...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Ten Years of Community Engagement through Sela’s Work in Jordan. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Speaker: Maria Elena Ronza Founder and President of Sela for Training and Protection of Heritage

Online attendance: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🔗 To register:
In-person attendance: forms.office.com/e/mePRCjpVfa...

Join us for “Ten Years of Community Engagement through Sela’s Work in Jordan” - a lecture by Maria Elena Ronza on Sela’s pioneering heritage conservation journey.

📅 Oct 20, 6 PM (Amman) - 4 PM (London)
📍 CBRL Amman & online

Book your spot now!

Ep. 4 of Learning from the Levant 🎙️

Prof. Yasir Suleiman speaks on how language, identity & place intersect in the Arab world — from Jerusalem’s street signs to the symbolic power of Arabic.

Listen here 👉
on.soundcloud.com/xolcXcSHH0R8...

Call for Tender for Surfacing Zarqa Digital Exhibition - CBRL Tender Outline for Creation of Collaborative Website for Surfacing Zarqa Project Project Title: Surfacing Zarqa digital exhibition Opening Date for tender submissions: 25th September 2025 Closing Date...

Call for Tender 📢

We’re seeking a creative web designer or design team to co-create the Surfacing Zarqa digital exhibition.

🔸 Deadline: 31 Oct 2025
▪️ More details:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/call-fo...

Weaponising sectarian emotions: Iran’s mobilisation strategy during the Syrian conflict (2012–2024) Conventional scholarly explorations into Iran’s involvement in the Syrian turmoil (2012–2024) primarily highlight geopolitical motivations, particularly Tehran’s strategic interest in preserving th...

New online and open access from @contemplevant.bsky.social: "Weaponising sectarian emotions: Iran’s mobilisation strategy during the Syrian conflict (2012–2024)" by Seyed Ali Alavi: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Role of Pharmacists in Addressing Substance Use Disorders in Jordan Workshop - CBRL With generous support from the CBRL, the University of Jordan, in collaboration with the University of Bristol, organized a two-day workshop entitled “Co-Development of an Academic Network and Researc...

On 17–18 Sep, CBRL Amman hosted a workshop with the University of Jordan and @bristoluni.bsky.social on the role of pharmacists in tackling substance use disorders in Jordan, identifying the top research priorities, and launching a new academic network.

Read More:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/the-rol...

New online from @contemplevant.bsky.social: “Rethinking Wendy Pearlman’s ‘silencing fear’ in the rules of Hafez and Bashar al-Assad: an affective perspective”: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The September 2025 edition of CBRL’s newsletter is out now! 📬

Catch up on our latest news, research, and upcoming events across the Levant. Check it out! 📰

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You have your Gibran and I have my Gibran: representations of Kahlil Gibran, a century after The Prophet First published in 1923, and subsequently selling over one hundred million copies in over one hundred languages, Kahlil Gibran’s book-length mystical poem, The Prophet, is one of the most popular l...

New online and open access from @contemplevant.bsky.social : “You have your Gibran and I have my Gibran: representations of Kahlil Gibran, a century after The Prophet” by Ibrahim Abraham: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join us TODAY, Online via Zoom, at 6 PM (Amman time) - 4 PM (UK time) for the third lecture in the Graduate Network Seminar Series! 🎓📑

New podcast episode!🎙️

Learning from the Levant – Ep.3

Shatha Mubaideen speaks with Muhyi Majeed on how participatory methods like photovoice & storytelling help young people reclaim their cultural heritage.

🎧 Listen here:
on.soundcloud.com/R4SUxrOfe6xT...

The CBRL Graduate Network Skills Development Seminar Series continues! 🎓🔍

Lecture 3: "Research Methods and Collecting Data"

🔹 Prof. Omar Al Ghul, Yarmouk University
🔹2 Sep 2025 | 6 PM (Amman) | 4 PM (UK)
🔹Online (Zoom)

🔗 Register:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Izhaq Abdel Hadi Mahmoud al-Hroub (Abu Iyad), 1941–2025: chronicler of Palestinian heritage and son of the land Published in Contemporary Levant (Ahead of Print, 2025)

In this moving obituary, Dr Loay Abu Al-Saud pays tribute to a stalwart of Palestinian local history and heritage: “Izhaq Abdel Hadi Mahmoud al-Hroub (Abu Iyad), 1941–2025: chronicler of Palestinian heritage and son of the land”: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Bata Company's eastern Mediterranean business operations 1918–1938: a structuration perspective This paper presents a comparative historical-sociological analysis of the Bata Company's business operations in the eastern Mediterranean between the two world wars. Focusing on countries such as E...

New online: “The Bata Company's eastern Mediterranean business operations 1918–1938: a structuration perspective” by
Milan Balaban, Jan Herman & Dalibor Savić - a case study of trade, manufacturing and labour, especially in mandate Lebanon and Palestine:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New online and #openaccess from @contemplevant.bsky.social: "Preventing fitna, promoting schism: a microhistory of conversion in mandate Palestine" by Dotan Halevy:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘People never learn the lessons of history’: an interview with Tim Mackintosh-Smith In this interview, distinguished traveller and scholar Tim Mackintosh-Smith shares his perspectives on the intersections of culture, history, and geography. Drawing from his extensive experiences i...

New from @contemplevant.bsky.social: Muddasir Ramzan interviews Tim Mackintosh-Smith

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Call for Applications: Bridging Research to Publication - Advanced Writing Workshops (2025-2027) - CBRL % CBRL in partnership with the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies (RIIFS), is launching an exciting new initiative aimed at enhancing the academic publishing skills of early career researchers (ECR...

Deadline Extended to 28th June: "Bridging Research to Publication – Advanced Writing Workshops (2025-2027)" - CBRL's support package for early career researchers based in Jordan, affiliated with academic, research, or heritage institutions. Details/applications here: www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/call-fo...

Books open for review in Contemporary Levant This table lists books that are open for review in Contemporary Levant. We are a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed academic journal covering, broadly speaking, the history, culture, politics, society, e...

As well as English-language books, at @contemplevant.bsky.social we're really keen to showcase scholarship in the languages of the region we focus on, i.e. mainly Arabic & Hebrew. If you'd like to review recent titles, drop us a line at contemporarylevant@cbrl.ac.uk

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New CBRL Graduate Network: Skills Development Seminar Series (2025-2026) - CBRL We are delighted to announce the CBRL Graduate Network: Skills Development Seminar Series (2025 – 2026). A new online programme designed to support early career researchers working across the Levant. ...

Save the dates! @cbrl.bsky.social’s Graduate Network: Skills Development Seminar Series (2025-2026) starts on 1st July and includes sessions on research proposals, ethics, data collection and protection, analysis, interviewing… www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/graduat...

Books open for review in Contemporary Levant This table lists books that are open for review in Contemporary Levant. We are a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed academic journal covering, broadly speaking, the history, culture, politics, society, e...

A reminder that @contemplevant.bsky.social is always keen to hear from new book reviewers. The list of titles we'd love covering is here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

and recent additions include Exploring the Kitáb-i-Aqdas
The Laws and Teachings of the Bahá’í Faith (Ghaemmaghami and Vafai)...

Postdoctoral Research fellowships - Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions at British Institute at Ankara An academic position as a Postdoctoral Research fellowships - Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job ...

Short-term (possibly extendable) postdocs on Ottoman Mobilities with @thebiaankara.bsky.social in Ankara, Amman, Rome, Nairobi or other locations: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNN499/p...

New online from @contemplevant.bsky.social: Claire Launchbury reviews A war of colors: graffiti and street art in postwar Beirut by Nadine Sinno (@utexaspress.bsky.social): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A little belated, but here is the rundown of issue 10.1 of @contemplevant.bsky.social, Spring 2025, with the articles roughly chronological by content: 1) "Julian or Gregorian calendar? Authority and identity in the Greek Catholic community of nineteenth-century Ottoman Syria" by Anais...

This StoryMap is the result of a collaboration between @thebiaankara.bsky.social,
@britschoolathens.bsky.social, @cbrl.bsky.social, ourselves (@bilnas.bsky.social), @britishacademy.bsky.social, The British Institute of Eastern Africa and the British Institute of Persian Studies.

Olwen Brogan makes a squeeze [a reverse copy] of an inscription BILNAS41/2/7/8/3/2/46 ©BILNAS

‘Women Transcending Boundaries’ is a new StoryMap celebrating over 100 years of scholarship, fieldwork and friendship by women connected to the British International Research Institutes (BIRI).

Stories of resilience, innovation and partnership across borders.

Explore the StoryMap: arcg.is/1nGCGy3