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CBRL is a learned society working with the countries, peoples and societies of the Levant to advance public education through promoting and disseminating research in the humanities, social sciences and related subjects. CBRL is a non-profit organisation. Comments and queries are welcome to: info@cbrl.ac.uk

Episodes

Learning from the Levant - Episode 4: Yasir Suleiman

September 7, 2025 • 31 mins
Learning from the Levant Episode 4: Yasir Suleiman In this episode of Learning from the Levant, Shatha Mubaideen speaks with Professor Yasir Suleiman about the deep connections between language, identity, and place in the Arab world. They explore how Jerusalem’s street signs reveal stories of power and resistance, why Arabic holds such symbolic importance, and how cities ‘speak’ through their languages. Professor Suleiman also s...
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Learning from the Levant - Episode 3: Muhyi Majeed

August 13, 2025 • 19 mins
Learning from the Levant Episode 3: Muhyi Majeed In this episode of Learning from the Levant, Shatha Mubaideen speaks with Muhyi Majeed, a peer researcher in the Reconfiguring Heritage project. Muhyi discusses how participatory methods such as photovoice and embodied storytelling can help young people reclaim and reimagine their cultural heritage. They reflect on the power of everyday memory, the importance of documenting unseen...
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Learning from the Levant - Episode 2: Shaddin Almasri

June 24, 2025 • 11 mins
Learning from the Levant Episode 2: Shaddin Almasri In this episode of Learning from the Levant, host Shatha Mubaideen welcomes Dr. Shaddin, a Research Fellow at CBRL and postdoctoral researcher at Danube University Krems. Shaddin’s research focuses on inequalities between refugee and migrant groups, particularly in the SWANA and East Africa regions. Together, they discuss the evolving refugee policies in Jordan and the Levant, ...
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Learning from the Levant - Episode 1: Jane Humphris

April 29, 2025 • 17 mins
Learning from the Levant Episode 1: Jane Humphris In this first episode of Learning from the Levant, a Podcast Series by the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL), Shatha Mubaideen hosts Dr Jane Humphris, CBRL Director. Together, they discuss Dr Humphris' career in archaeology, her new role at CBRL, and the organisation’s mission to promote interdisciplinary research and cultural heritage preservation in the Levant reg...
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Jerusalem: From Arab world metropolis to divided city

September 26, 2024 • 40 mins
Jerusalem: From Arab world metropolis to divided city Dr 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 Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day war. He recalls how Jerusalem was a hub for the Ara...
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The Impact of the Amphetamine Captagon on Jordan: A Perspective of Patients and Frontline Workers

February 2, 2023 • 71 mins
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 Captagon on Jordan by focusing on its relationship to organised crime, and on its role as...
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Kashmir-Palestine Conversation Series 4 | Dalia Taha, Ather Zia & Nadine El-Enany | Jan 2023

February 2, 2023 • 98 mins
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 speakers Dalia Taha is a Palestinian poet and playwright living in Ramallah. Her first play Keffiyeh/Made in China was produced by the ...
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How can Syrian agricultural expertise inform sustainable development policy?

February 2, 2023 • 110 mins
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’ intangible agricultural heritage and present-day working conditions in Turkish farming and m...
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Kashmir-Palestine Conversation Series 3 | Ala Al Azzeh, Inshah Malik & Virinder Kalra | Jan 2023

January 30, 2023 • 77 mins
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).
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“Bring Him Back” film screening and discussion with Suhad Daher Nashef and Talat Bhat

November 17, 2022 • 28 mins
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 of India. It is directed by Kashmiri journalist and writer, Fahad Shah, and produce...
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Kashmir-Palestine Scholars Solidarity Network Launch

November 17, 2022 • 49 mins
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. Their struggles for national self-determination are also repeatedly shaped by the promine...
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Britain’s Pacification of Palestine I Matthew Hughes I October 2022

November 16, 2022 • 39 mins
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 army had a long tradition of pacification that it drew upon to support operations ag...
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Knowing about Earthquakes in the Mandatory Levant I Sarah Irving I October 2022

November 16, 2022 • 42 mins
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 impacts. This lecture looks at how local scientists, journalists and government officia...
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Thirsty Water Carriers: The Legacy of Colonialism in the Galilee I Muna Dajani I October 2022

November 16, 2022 • 21 mins
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 particular worldview that considered natural resources as sites of extractivism and exploita...
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The Victorians in Palestine: Laying Colonial Foundations I Gabriel Polley I October 2022

November 16, 2022 • 33 mins
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. Drawing on Evangelical Christian discourses around the Holy Land and the Jewish people and...
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Jerusalem: Old City Perspectives from W/out & Within I Matthew Teller & Bisan Abu Eisheh I Sept 2022

November 16, 2022 • 53 mins
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 stories untold. This webinar highlights voices of the communities of the Old City by...
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Rebel Populism: Revolution and Loss Among Syrian Labourers in Beirut I Philip Proudfoot I Sept 2022

November 16, 2022 • 36 mins
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 ‘opportunity’ to a survivalist strategy.  But in 2011, revolution came to Syria. Rural...
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Digital mapping, heritage management and archaeological research in the Levant I Panel I June 2022

November 16, 2022 • 46 mins
CBRL & EAMENA webinar: Digital mapping, heritage management and archaeological research in the Levant: synergism and future directions Archaeology 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 make sense of the influx of data, further contributing to creating more digital data...
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Challenging the Kyl-Bingaman Amend: opening access to satellite imageryI Michael Fradley I July 2022

November 10, 2022 • 42 mins
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 Kyl-Bingaman Amendment limited imagery resolution over this area. This paper will pr...
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BRISMES – CBRL mentoring event: Getting published in an academic journal I Panel I April 2022

November 10, 2022 • 74 mins
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 the next generation of Middle East scholars with the insights needed to get ahead in t...
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