@ferasalkabani
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.
📣 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
@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
🤔 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...
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...
The image shows an event poster for the annual lecture. Full details are available on the BRISMES website: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/events/annual-lecture/2025
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
Excellent collaboration between BRISMES, SARN UK and the Sussex 🙌🎉 Full details here 👇
Watch BRISMES Trustee, Dr @ferasalkabani.bsky.social, as he discusses Orientalism in the latest season of TV documentary, Empire Builders: The Untold Story of the Orientalists: Adventure, Art & Exploration 🎬
Watch the trailer 🎞️ here 👇
I'm on telly 📺 encore une fois 🙈☺️
Watch my contribution to the latest season of TV documentary, Empire Builders: The Untold Story of the Orientalists: Adventure, Art & Exploration 🎬
Watch the trailer 🎞️ here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUk9...
Have you read it yet? Murjana, a novel of medieval Baghdad, is Ghada Karmi’s latest work 📘
Listen to the celebrated Palestinian physician, author and activist tell us more about her book on Instagram ✨🪄
www.instagram.com/reel/DQMAvNZ...
From a PhD student to Co-Vice President & Chair of the Society's Committee for Academic Freedom, watch to Dr
Lewis Turner @newcastleuni.bsky.social tell us more about his BRISMES journey:
youtube.com/watch?v=2h9S...
Get involved. Sign up for membership here:
www.brismes.ac.uk/membership
Join BRISMES Trustee, Dr @ferasalkabani.bsky.social if you’re in @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org this Thursday 📚 📕
Details below 👇 All welcome 🙏
📣BRISMES Trustee, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Dr @ferasalkabani.bsky.social, is giving a book talk @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
🗓️ Thursday, 9 October 2025; 17:00 – 18:45
📍 Room 10, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA
All welcome 🙏 📚
🎥 On Day 1 of the #BRISMES2025 Annual Conference, we’re screening Dr Joy Stacey’s She the Steadfast, a multimedia patchwork of layered history of gender & identities in Palestine 🇵🇸
🎦 Trailer: vimeo.com/1088731484?sha…
Full details here 👇 All welcome 🙏
📖 At this BRISMES#2025 Annual Conference, we’re offering a literary break: a reading by the author - Ghada Karmi - of her latest novel, Murjana (2025).
Join us at 🕦 11.30am on 🗓️ 2 July in📍HER. Lth 1 Lecture Theatre @nclpolitics.bsky.social
Chair: Dr @ferasalkabani.bsky.social
All welcome 🙏
📣There’s still time to submit a proposal to our AHRC-funded SARN UK International Conference at📍the University of Sussex.
Come and join us in beautiful #Brighton on 🗓️ 18-19 September 2025 🎊 🙏
‼️Deadline: 20 June 2025
Submit your proposal here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join our AHRC-funded partner, SARN UK, on the 28th of April for an online symposium entitled, "Scholarship Beyond Borders: Resilience and Reform in Syrian Academia".
More details here: www.sarn-uk.org/.../ahrc-fun....
Register to attend here: universityofsussex.zoom.us/.../WN...
All welcome 🙏
Sussex people, come along on 7th April to hear me talk about my book alongside some great colleagues who will be talking about their own fabulous publications (including @ferasalkabani.bsky.social).
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Credit where credit is due 🙏 Mishy is love and authenticity 😻 Thank you very much ☺️
Thank you 🙏
My first post here has got to be special ✨ Syria is free 🕊️ 💚❤️💚
