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Jerusalem: From Arab world metropolis to divided city 40:53

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Jerusalem: From Arab world metropolis to divided cityDr Mansour Nasasra shares his insights into the complex history of Jerusalem. He looks back to the British occupation of the city by General Edmund Allenby in 1917 and the unstable years that followed, the division of the city in 1948 between Israel and Jordan and Israel’s capture of East Jerusal…

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The Impact of the Amphetamine Captagon on Jordan: A Perspective of Patients and Frontline Workers 1:11:38

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In recent years, the illicit amphetamine-like drug Captagon (Fenethylline) has become a major concern in the Middle East – both as a source of addiction and due to its connection with terrorism and the armed groups who produce and traffic it.This presentation will provide an overview on the findings of a qualitative study about the impact of Captag…

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Kashmir-Palestine Conversation Series 4 | Dalia Taha, Ather Zia & Nadine El-Enany | Jan 2023 1:38:35

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The fourth episode in the Kashmir Palestine Conversation Series addresses “Poetry and literature” and feature short presentations from Dalia Taha (poet and playwright) and Ather Zia (poet and writer, University of Colorado). The chair is Nadine El-Enany (Birkbeck, University of London) About the speakersDalia Taha is a Palestinian poet and playwrig…

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How can Syrian agricultural expertise inform sustainable development policy? 1:50:41

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In this webinar, the project partners share insights from the 2021/22 FIELD SONGS project, an AHRC-funded collaboration of agricultural and social scientists at the University of Edinburgh and Douzan Art & Culture and Syrian Academic Expertise, two Syrian-run organisations based in Turkey. For this project, the partners documented refugees’ intangi…

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Kashmir-Palestine Conversation Series 3 | Ala Al Azzeh, Inshah Malik & Virinder Kalra | Jan 2023 1:17:07

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This is the third in our Kashmir Palestine Conversation Series which features short presentations from Ala Al Azzeh (Birzeit University) and Inshah Malik, and was be moderated by Virinder Kalra (University of Warwick).Por CBRL Sound

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“Bring Him Back” film screening and discussion with Suhad Daher Nashef and Talat Bhat 28:59

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The first Kashmir-Palestine Conversation will feature a screening of the film “Bring Him Back” (dir. Fahad Shah, 2015), followed by a discussion with Palestinian academic Suhad Daher-Nashif and filmmaker Talat Bhat. Bring him Back is a documentary film about the struggle of Maqbool Bhat’s mother to get her son’s mortal remains back from Tihar jail …

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Kashmir-Palestine Scholars Solidarity Network Launch 49:36

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Palestine and Kashmir are two of the most longstanding unresolved geopolitical puzzles resulting from the end of the British Empire. They share an unenviable list of commonalities in their historical conditions: from the legacies and vestiges of British colonial partition, to the large refugee populations and extensive diasporas they produced. Thei…

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Britain’s Pacification of Palestine I Matthew Hughes I October 2022 39:20

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We are joined by Professor Hughes in the third event of our series of events to mark the centenary of the British Mandate in Palestine (1922-48).Professor Hughes will use material from his recent book on Britain’s repression of the Arab revolt in the 1930s to detail Britain’s devastatingly effective methods against colonial rebellion. The British a…

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Knowing about Earthquakes in the Mandatory Levant I Sarah Irving I October 2022 42:51

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When an earthquake shook Palestine, Transjordan and the south of Lebanon and Syria in 1927, terms such as the Richter scale or plate tectonics which we now use to talk about seismic events were still a thing of the future. In global science, scholars were debating what caused earthquakes and were trying to work out how to measure their power and im…

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Thirsty Water Carriers: The Legacy of Colonialism in the Galilee I Muna Dajani I October 2022 21:53

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In this talk Dr Muna Dajani will look at how a unified watershed governance was devised by external powers, mainly the British and Americans, to construct the water resources of the Jordan River Basin as a unified, apolitical and ‘natural’ watershed. In their attempt to depoliticise the boundaries of the watershed, these forces reinforced a particu…

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The Victorians in Palestine: Laying Colonial Foundations I Gabriel Polley I October 2022 33:24

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This talk considers British involvement in and attitudes towards Palestine during the so-called “Peaceful Crusade” of the nineteenth century. Polly presents aspects of his book Palestine in the Victorian Age, arguing that Britain’s occupation, and the Zionist movement’s settler-colonisation, were significantly prefigured by Victorian Britons. Drawi…

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Jerusalem: Old City Perspectives from W/out & Within I Matthew Teller & Bisan Abu Eisheh I Sept 2022 53:11

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In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. Maps divide the walled Old City into four quarters, yet that division doesn’t reflect the reality of mixed and diverse neighbourhoods. Beyond the crush and frenzy of its major religious sites, much of the Old City remains little known to visitors, its people overlooked and their …

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Rebel Populism: Revolution and Loss Among Syrian Labourers in Beirut I Philip Proudfoot I Sept 2022 36:59

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Rebel populism tells the story of the Syrian uprising through the eyes of migrant workers in Beirut. Workers from Syria have maintained a presence in Lebanon for decades. There was a time when their wages stretched further back home. However, from the mid-2000s, liberalising reforms saw accelerating levels of poverty. Migration shifted from an ‘opp…

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Digital mapping, heritage management and archaeological research in the Levant I Panel I June 2022 46:09

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CBRL & EAMENA webinar: Digital mapping, heritage management and archaeological research in the Levant: synergism and future directionsArchaeology has undergone a digital revolution that has transformed working practices across the globe and hugely increased the amount of data available for research. Many initiatives exist that try to organise and m…

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Challenging the Kyl-Bingaman Amend: opening access to satellite imageryI Michael Fradley I July 2022 42:00

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This is a joint lecture in partnership with the Palestine Exploration Fund held in honour of Andrea Zerbini.Access to satellite imagery has enabled major advances in archaeology and other disciplines studying the Middle East and North Africa. A comparable impact had not been realised over Israel and Palestine, where U.S. restrictions known as the K…

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BRISMES – CBRL mentoring event: Getting published in an academic journal I Panel I April 2022 1:14:26

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The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) together with the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) are pleased to announce their second joint mentoring webinar for our members. Targeting postgraduate students and early career researchers, these on-line events offer practical advice and support from specialists, equipping t…

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Using the master's tools to dismantle the house: I Law & Palestinian Liberation I Ralph Wilde I 2022 28:45

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Using the Master’s Tools to Dismantle the Master’s House: International Law and Palestinian LiberationIt is commonplace to seek to enforce international law as a means of vindicating the rights of the Palestinian people, including, fundamentally, the right to liberation. Legal “tools” deployed to dismantle the “master’s house” of colonial oppressio…

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Rituals of identity, the prophet Moses festival in Jerusalem, 1850-1948 I Awad Halabi I May 2022 1:07:10

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This talk summarises the main arguments in Awad Halabi’s forthcoming book, Palestinian Rituals of Identity: The Prophet Moses Festival in Jerusalem, 1850-1948 (University of Texas Press, late 2022).The work focuses on the festival (mawsim) that honours the 13th century shrine of the Prophet Moses (maqam al-Nabi Musa) located south of Jericho, Moses…

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The politics of heritage; case studies from Jordan I Panel I March 2022 1:08:30

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The heritage agenda in the Levant, whether focused on tourism, local communities, or sustainability, has typically been set by external agents. This event addresses this issue through presentations and discussion from two previous winners and co-authors of CBRL’s Contemporary Levant best paper prize – Christina Luke, 2021 – and Shatha Abu-Khafajah,…

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Ramla - Palestine forgotten capital I Andrew Petersen I February 2022 1:29:30

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23 February 2022This webinar explores the history, archaeology and architecture of this historic city, located in central Israel. Ramla is significant because it was the only new city founded by the Muslim Arabs within Palestine and for a short period functioned as capital. From the eighth to the tenth century Ramla grew to be the most populous cit…

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Interview with Andrew Arsan: Democracy in the Levant 1936-58 I Andrew Arsan I March 2022 33:02

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February 2022In this interview, CBRL’s Director Carol Palmer speaks to Andrew Arsan about his research on the twentieth century history of the Levant with a focus on the potential for Arab democracy.About the speaker: Andrew Arsan is Professor of Arab and Mediterranean History in the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St J…

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Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, reproduction, and death in modern Palestine I Frances Hasso I Jan 2022 1:09:10

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19 January 2022Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, reproduction, and death in modern Palestine. A book conversation with Frances S. Hasso.Bringing together a vivid array of analog and non-traditional sources, including colonial archives, newspaper reports, literature, oral histories and interviews, Buried in the Red Dirt tells a story of life, death, and…

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Unfree labour and refugee workers in Middle Eastern agriculture I Panel I December 2021 1:29:44

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01 December 2021This lecture revisits the notion of “unfree labour” through the study of refugee workers in Middle Eastern agriculture. It presents findings from the Refugee Labour under Lockdown project, drawing on interviews with 80 Syrian agricultural workers, 20 intermediaries, and 20 employers in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. The Interna…

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The metamorphising struggle for Syria I Raymond Hinnebusch I November 2021 1:34:55

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Syria’s conflict has metamorphised into a hybrid: a partially frozen proxy war over territory combined with a battle over sanctions and reconstruction. This lecture will explore three aspects of this contest. The lecture will look at the stalemated proxy war; the effort of the regime to use reconstruction to consolidate its power and marginalize op…

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Desert Insurgency: Archaeology, T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt I Nicholas J Saunders I Nov 2021 1:32:18

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For 10 years, between 2005 and 2014, the ‘Great Arab Revolt Project’ (GARP) investigated the remains of the 1916-1918 Arab Revolt in southern Jordan, from Ma’an to Mudawwara.Expecting initially to survey and excavate the mainly ruinous Hejaz Railway stations for perhaps three years, events soon changed this to a 10-year project. The stations were i…

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Living Emergency: Israel's Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank I Y Berda & R Hammami I May 2018 57:02

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Living Emergency: Israel’s Permit Regime in the Occupied West BankDr Yael Berda (Harvard) in conversation with Professor Rema Hammami (Birzeit University)Por CBRL Sound

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Hamas Contained: the Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance I Tareq Baconi I October 2019 52:24

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Book launch in partnership with the Educational Bookshop, the American Colony Hotel and Stanford University Press presented by the author Tareq Baconi in conversation with Jose' Vericat.Por CBRL Sound

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'From the River to the Sea_ Palestine and Israel in the Shadow of “Peace” I Panel I November 2019 56:45

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From the River to the Sea: Palestine and Israel in the Shadow of ‘Peace’ provides original analyses of how different coping strategies were developed as well as new forms of political expression, interaction, and mobilization since the 1993 peace deal between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel. Its premise is that an historical realis…

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Nazareth_ The City that Survived the Nakba I Leena Dallasheh I December 2017 50:09

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In the wake of the Nakba, and the destruction of much of Palestinian society and its major cities, Nazareth remained almost intact. As the dust of the war settled, this heretofore small town turned into the only Palestinian city to survive the events of 1948, and became the cultural and political centre for the Palestinians that remained as a minor…

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Palestine Ltd. Neoliberalism & Nationalism in the Occupied Territory I Toufic Haddad I December 2016 52:02

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'Palestine Ltd' by Toufic Haddad explores how neoliberal frameworks have shaped and informed the common understandings of international, Israeli and Palestinian interactions throughout the Oslo peace process. Drawing upon more than 20 years of policy literature, field-based interviews and recently declassified or leaked documents, he details how th…

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The Arab Architectural Renaissance in the Western Part of Occupied Jerusalem I Panel I May 2019 1:10:26

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9 May 2019Adnan Abdelrazak, in conversation with Raja Khalidi, discusses the new era of urban development in Jerusalem brought about by the replacement of the Ottoman Empire’s rule over Jerusalem by British forces in 1917 and by the imposition of a British Mandate on Palestine by the League of Nations in 1921.…

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Finding Jerusalem: Archaeology Between Science and Ideology I K Galor & N Jubeh I August 2017 52:34

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28 August 2017Book launch with Katharina Galor and Nazmi Jubeh.A joint event between the Kenyon Institute, the Educational Bookshop and Dar al-Tifel al-Arabi. This event will bring author Dr Katharina Galor (Humboldt University, Berlin) into discussion with Dr Nazmi Jubeh (Birzeit University, Palestine) about the findings of her new book: Finding J…

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From Ferguson to Palestine: State Control and Oppression I Marc Hill & Sarah Francis I July 2019 35:07

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31 July 2019Book launch with Professor Marc Lamont Hill and Attorney Sarah Francis.Por CBRL Sound

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Citizen Hariri: Lebanon’s Neoliberal Reconstruction I Hannes Baumann and Toufic Haddad I August 2017 53:00

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15 August 2017Book Launch with Hannes Baumann and Toufic Haddad.Joint event between the Kenyon Institute, the Educational Bookshop and Dar al-Tifel al-Arabi.This book assesses the legacy of the man dubbed 'Mr Lebanon' and charts the social and economic transformations his rise represented. At this event, author Hannes Baumann (Liverpool University,…

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The politics of water scarcity in the Levant I Panel I September 2021 1:29:11

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29 September 2021 | The politics of water scarcity in the Levant The Middle East is the most water scarce region in the world. In this webinar we will consider the causes and consequences of this water scarcity. We will discuss how climate and management of water resources impacts this water crisis. Three speakers will provide perspectives from the…

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A History of False Hope I Lori Allen I June 2021 1:18:44

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In this speaker event, Lori Allen will present on her latest book, A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine, in conversation with Toufic Haddad. Based on archival and ethnographic research, this book examines a history of international investigative commissions in Palestine as liberal performances and enactments of internatio…

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Olga Tufnell's Perfect Journey - Book Launch I Panel I June 2021 1:27:03

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This lecture, in partnership with CBRL and UCL Press, provides an opportunity to summarize, share insights, and discuss the recently published volume: “Olga Tufnell’s ‘Perfect Journey’: Letters and photographs of an archaeologist in the Levant and Mediterranean.”Olga Tufnell (1905–85) was a British archaeologist working in Egypt, Cyprus and Palesti…

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Eastern Christianity in Syria and Palestine and European cultural diplomacy | Panel | May 2021 1:27:01

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A Christian ‘Oriental question’ or an ‘Orient belonging only to Easterners’?In this webinar, the panellists will discuss European cultural diplomacy in Ottoman and Mandate Syria and Palestine, how it impacted the cultural identification of indigenous Christians, and the variety of Christian Arab agendas towards such policies, relying predominantly …

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How to get published in a Middle East journal | 28 April 2021 1:12:54

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Are you interested in getting your research published in a leading peer-reviewed journal focused on the Middle East? Join us for a conversation with the editors of four prominent international journals who share their perspectives and advice on how to get your research published. Our panellists share their insights on the publishing process and pro…

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"Neither Settle nor Native" – In conversation with Dr Mahmood Mamdani | 14 April 2021 45:55

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The Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL), in partnership with the Educational Bookshop, are pleased to share this discussion with Dr Mahmood Mamdani about his new book “Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities.”The book offers original arguments regarding the co-constitutive relationship between the n…

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Looking forwards backwards | 31 March 2021 1:34:37

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Current global climatic and ecological changes present a profound threat to the long-term wellbeing of humanity. Solutions to mitigate against or adapt to society’s grand sustainability challenge will come from many quarters – science and technology, humanities and the creative arts, health, business and education – but the historical sciences of a…

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Feminist art in the Middle East and Turkey | 4 March 2021 1:21:22

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This webinar, co-hosted by the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) and the British Institute at Ankara, will showcase the latest debates and scholarship on modern and contemporary feminist art practices and histories from the Middle East and Turkey.The panellists will share their perspectives on feminist art in Syria, Turkey and Pales…

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Understanding the development of complex societies in Lebanon during the EBA | 17 February 2021 1:14:59

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This webinar will investigate the development of complex societies in the Lebanese coastal zone during the Early Bronze Age (EBA). New evidence shows that coastal Lebanon, with its unique mountainous setting and ample water resources, developed a distinct pathway to complexity. Dr Kamal Badreshany will discuss ceramic and architectural evidence fro…

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Women's activism in the Levant | 14 January 2021 2:04:52

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In this roundtable event, Islah Jad, Sara Ababneh and Nicola Pratt discuss women’s activism in the Levant, with a focus on Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon.Based on their respective research in this area, they explore how women’s activism has emerged and changed over time, its relationship to nationalism and state-building, to feminism, international …

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Jabal Moussa: Archaeology and heritage in the Lebanese mountains | December 2020 1:25:26

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A projecting western spur of Mount Lebanon adjacent to the Ibrahim or Adonis river, the Jabal Moussa Biosphere Reserve possesses a rich natural and cultural heritage. Given its relative inaccessibility and difficult terrain, what is perhaps most remarkable is the long continuity of human adaptation and occupation of this mountain landscape. This ta…

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CBRL AGM Lecture 2020 | Migration diplomacy in the Levant: Lessons from the Syrian refugee crisis 1:16:13

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With Dr Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of Birmingham15 November 2020How do states’ foreign policy goals affect their policies towards refugees? What is the impact of forced displacement on host states’ political development? Gerasimos Tsourapas draws on elite interviews conducted across Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey in the context of the Syrian refug…

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A Commerce of Knowledge | November 2020 1:09:40

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A Commerce of Knowledge, authored by Simon Mills, tells the story of three generations of Church of England chaplains who served the English Levant Company in Syria during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Reconstructing the careers of its protagonists in the cosmopolitan city of Ottoman Aleppo, the book investigates the links between Engli…

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Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe | October 2020 1:10:24

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A thought-provoking discussion, chaired by Venetia Porter, Curator of Islamic & Contemporary Middle East Art at the British Museum (currently on furlough), with Scott Redford, Professor of Islamic Art & Archaeology at SOAS, and Diana Darke, author of this new book. Described by The Guardian as “exhilarating and meticulously researched”, the book ha…

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Germany and Israel: whitewashing and statebuilding with Dr Daniel Marwecki | September 2020 1:13:48

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According to common perception, the Federal Republic of Germany supported the formation of the Israeli state for moral reasons—to atone for its Nazi past—but did not play a significant role in the Arab–Israeli conflict. However, the historical record does not sustain this narrative.  Daniel Marwecki’s pathbreaking analysis deconstructs the myths su…

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20,000 years of impacts, adaptation & vulnerability in the Eastern Levant | Matt Jones | Dec 2015 57:44

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People have complex relationships with the environments they live in and resources such as water and food are critical variables in societal landscapes, with resource scarcity potentially leading to instability or collapse. In the Levant, with its long history of human occupation and evolution, human-climate-environment interactions have been impor…

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