CBRL invites applications for Workshop Grants! 📑 🔹 Deadline: Friday - 16 Jan 2026 For more details and to apply: www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/cbrl-wo...

What does an ethical future for digital heritage look like? 🌍 Join Dr. Bijan Rouhani (Oxford, EAMENA) for “Beyond Digitisation” — a lecture on AI, ethics & sustainability in heritage. 🔹 19 Nov 2025 🔹 6 PM Amman | 3 PM UK 🔹 Online ( Zoom)

New online and open access at @contemplevant.bsky.social: "Entangled roots: co-governance and the politics of reforestation in contemporary Lebanon" by Paul Esber: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #Lebanon #environment #reforestation

TWO DAYS LEFT to apply! POMEPS is pleased to announce a Call for Papers: Political Movements in North Africa and the Sahel after the Arab Uprisings. The deadline to apply is Friday, Nov. 7th, COB. For more information on how to apply: pomeps.org/call-for-pap...

A FEW DAYS LEFT to apply! POMEPS is pleased to announce a Call for Papers: Political Movements in North Africa and the Sahel after the Arab Uprisings. The deadline to apply is Monday, Nov. 3rd. For more information on how to apply: pomeps.org/call-for-pap...

Cyprus is included in the @cbrl.bsky.social research areas so take a look & see if you can apply!

CBRL invites applications for Project Grants 2025! 📝 🔹Deadline: Friday - 09 Jan 2026 Learn more and apply: www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/cbrl-pr...

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...

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 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...

RHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants. Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025

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....

Dear colleagues and friends, We are pleased to announce the opening of a call for papers for a new Forum on Palestine: Agrarian Questions Unsettled, recently launched by the Journal of Peasant Studies and guest-edited by Fadia Panosetti, Taher Labadi, and Ahmed Heneiti.

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...

📢 The Social History Society Book Prize 2026 is now open for nominations! Now in its 8th year, the prize celebrates the best books in social history & cultural history✨ More information here: socialhistory.org.uk/2025/09/24/b...

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! 📰 mailchi.mp/cbrl/cbrl-se...

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....

JOB: parental leave cover, September 2025-April 2026, Middle East and Ottoman history: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOQ256/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....

We're experiencing an unbelievable deluge of submissions. At our journal we got ~200 per year in 2020. Last year it was 600. This year it's 800 with several months to go. So that's why we're slower to get stuff out for review.

Peer reviewers are exhausted. It's common to spend *months* inviting reviewers, getting refusals, inviting more, maybe 12 or more, then 2 agree but 1 doesn't complete, so you go again. That's why your paper is in limbo. I'm very sorry, it's awful, but it's also an untenable academic labour issue.

Applications for SHAPE Involve and Engage are now open. This innovative public engagement programme allows UK-based researchers to work in partnership with a gallery, archive, library or museum (GLAM organisation). Application deadline is 15 Oct. Learn more: https://bit.ly/47XA41y

Still ten days to apply for this writing workshop in Ankara, run by CBRL’s partners BIAA, focused on producing peer-review-ready articles on gender/culture/society aimed at international journals:

Announcing a call for applications for the Spring 2026 POMEPS Virtual Research Workshops! The deadline to apply is October 15, 2025. For more information on how to apply, visit: pomeps.org/call-for-app...

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...

Grant funding for community-focused public engagement work by "creative academics who want to experiment", including independent researchers Got great plans or initial thoughts about archives here? Drop us a line (we're particularly eyeing up the NUM archives here but SO MANY OTHER POSSIBILITIES!)

This is not only a serious issue for historians and not only a serious issue for academics (although it is that). It's a development that's also deleterious for the GLAM sector, for example, and part of a much larger trend nationally and internationally to restrict and dismantle access to archives.

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....

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....

If you're not in research spaces, this might be invisible to you, but the peer-review system is buckling. Not uncommon to ask ten people to find a single one willing to review (most things require at least two)... I get many of those refusals; we're all overtaxed. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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....

My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...

#Employment The Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology at the American University in Cairo (AUC) invites applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor of Anthropology with expertise in either Religion and/or the Environment. mesana.org/resources-an...

Subject area: contemporary Islam in the Americas

Four year fixed-term lectureship in global & imperial history, Oxford: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOC516/d...

New from @contemplevant.bsky.social: Muddasir Ramzan interviews Tim Mackintosh-Smith www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📖 Levant vol. 57_1 (Spring 2025) is out now. Available on the Taylor & Francis website — www.tandfonline.com/toc/ylev20/5... — lots to read and enjoy.

Deadline tomorrow, Monday 14th July

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. www.historyworkshop....

One-year lectureship in Islamic studies at Kings College London: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNW366/l...

One-year lectureship in Middle Eastern history at SOAS: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNT892/l...

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...

Applications now open (until 27 June 2025) for the Institute of Historical Research's non-stipendiary IHR Fellowships. Ideal for active, non-affiliated historians who would benefit from a period embedded in @ihr.bsky.social 's community of public, local & academic historians, archivists, curators.

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 [email protected] docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.