Associate Professor of Comparative Literature (Sussex). Co-Director of MENACS (Sussex). Trustee of BRISMES. Editorial Board Member of M&M (North Carolina State Uni). PI of the AHRC-Funded SARN UK. Contributor to TV Documentaries in the UK, USA & MENA.
Feras Alkabani
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Delighted to announce that my first monograph, Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic Desire, is now available in paperback 🎊
Get your copy for only £23.19 📕📘 📚 (with this discount code: GLR BD8) directly from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/richard-b...
Excellent collaboration between BRISMES, SARN UK and the Sussex 🙌🎉 Full details here 👇
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🤔 Still undecided about submitting an abstract to the BRISMES 2026 Conference @SOAS? There’s still time (the deadline is 18 January 2026), and here’s why you should submit a paper! ✨🪄
Submit your abstract by the 18th of January 2026 via this link: www.brismes.ac.uk/conference/a...
📣 CFP: SARN UK Conference 2026 📣
📆 When: 17-18 September 2026
📍Where: @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
🎭Theme: Syria in Transition (more details👇)
💻Submit abstract here: forms.gle/CYxwrgtDs9RH...
📅Submission deadline: 17 May 2026
🖼️Artwork by Issam Kourbaj
Join BRISMES Trustee Dr @ferasalkabani.bsky.social who’ll be chairing the the MEA’s webinar, Syria in Transition: One Year After the Assad Regime's Collapse, live from Damascus along with a panel of Syria experts at 13.00 GMT
All welcome; register here: us11.campaign-archive.com?u=391c72db26...
Watch Dr Farah Alrajeh tell us about her experience attending last year’s BRISMES Conference as a non-presenting delegate.
A year on, she is now presenting her work at this year’s Conference @soasuni.bsky.social
Register to attend as a non-presenting delegate:
www.brismes.ac.uk/news/2026-br...
@bordercrossings.bsky.social presents a new interactive performance 3-8 March.
Created with Syrian refugee women & featuring live debate, it reimagines The Suppliants — Aeschylus’ 2,500-year-old play, to explore asylum and democracy today.
bordercrossings.org.uk/whats-on/programme/suppliants-syria
There’s still time to submit an abstract for this year’s SARN UK Conference 🙌
Conference Themes: Syria in Transition: Knowledge, Memory, and the Everyday Aftermath”
🕛📆 Abstracts are due by 23:59 BST on 17 May 2026
✨For more details and to apply, please go to: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
We are delighted to announce that Professor Ilan Pappé will deliver the 2025 BRISMES Annual Lecture: 'Why There is a Need for #Palestine Studies?'
Free to attend and open to all, but registration is essential.
📅Wednesday, 19 November 2025
🕕1800-1930 GMT
📍Online
🔗https://bit.ly/42QPHEU
@ferasalkabani.bsky.social join us to discuss his book.
We'll talk about how cross-cultural encounters shaped understandings of #homosexuality from the 19th century to the aftermath of the Arab Spring.
📅 Tue, 9 June, 7pm
🌍The Southern Belle & Online
🎟 #Free www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/richard-bu...
🎊 Congratulations to our AHRC-funded partner, the Syrian Academics and Researchers' Network in the UK (SARN UK), on the outstanding success of its international Conference at the University of Sussex last month 👏✨
Read our press release here 👇
www.brismes.ac.uk/news/brismes...
