In a new Learning from the Levant episode, Shatha Mubaideen speaks with Gerasimos Tsourapas & Imad El-Anis about eco-humanitarian rentierism and what Jordan’s experience reveals about crises across the Global South. 🎧 Listen here: soundcloud.com/cbrl_sound/l...

🔖 Our Reader Scheme is now open — register for free to access our library and reading room! www.cbrl.ac.uk/kenyon-insti...

We are excited to share that the Kenyon Institute Library has reopened after two years! 📚 We welcomed 40+ guests to celebrate the occasion with talks, archive highlights, and a reception. Huge thanks to the KI team for delivering a fantastic event 👏

#Employment The History Department at the University of Guelph invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in History of the Middle East. mesana.org/resources-an...

A great opportunity for researchers writing up a PhD thesis or recently completed in refugee history broadly defined - a friendly and supportive working environment and this year in … Vienna!

Applications are invited for an assistant professor position in History of the Middle East at the University of Guelph Canada careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford! We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History. This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance” Deadline: 17 Dec 2025 Please share widely!

Are you a student, PhD candidate, or postdoc interested in #EnvHist opportunities in or related to Europe? Then our early-career-scholar team is building a network just for you.

Associate Professor in Modern Arabic Literature position at the University of Oxford. Deadline: 5 January www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK674/a...

FELLOWSHIP! @bethmardutho.bsky.social is seeking a research assistant for a project on Syriac printing culture in Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Knowledge of Latin is a must. Interested students or recent graduates can DM us for details. #fellowship bethmardutho.org

The December 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! 📰 Read here: mailchi.mp/cbrl/cbrl-de...

Have you booked your spot yet? 👀 Don’t miss tomorrow’s online lecture, 6 PM Amman time - 3 PM London time. 📲Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🏆🏆🏆Calling all Masters and Ph.D. students, you still have time to apply for the 2025 Gorgias Book Grant - your chance to win $500 of our titles! What are you waiting for? #awards #mastersdegree #PhD #phdlife #winbooks www.gorgiaspress.com/awards

New York University Abu Dhabi - Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World: memorients.com/news/new-yor...

The November 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-no...

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...