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Welcome to CBRL

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.

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Heritage & Archaeology Diwan #10 – Call for Papers

30 June 2026
Heritage & Archaeology Diwan #10 Call for papers You are warmly invited by The University...
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CBRL Hosts the Launch of the Surfacing Zarqa Digital Exhibition

18 June 2026
On 15 June 2026, CBRL hosted the online launch of the Surfacing Zarqa Digital Exhibition, bringing...
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Digital Exhibition Launch: The Surfacing Zarqa Project

14 June 2026
The Surfacing Zarqa Digital Exhibition is now available online, presenting a collection of oral histories, photographs, memories,...
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Events
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What Can Jordan’s Bedouin Teach the World About Social Media?

4:00 pm 15 July 2026

It has become something of a cliché to say that social media is making us...

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Lecture: The Karak Castle and Town Documentation Project

Dr Micaela Sinibaldi talks about The Karak Castle and Town Documentation Project which aims to document the archaeology and history of Karak castle and town in the Middle Islamic period.

Lecture: The Karak Castle and Town Documentation Project

Digital Exhibition Launch: Surfacing Zarqa

The Surfacing Zarqa Digital Exhibition presents a collection of oral histories, photographs, memories, audio recordings, and creative interpretations developed through the Surfacing Zarqa project.

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Digital Exhibition Launch: Surfacing Zarqa

Graduate Series #9: Turning Your Thesis into Journal Articles

Dr Sarah Irving, Editor-in-Chief of the Contemporary Levant Journal and Associate Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Staffordshire, talks about drawing on doctoral research to write journal articles. She explores some dos and don’ts of the process.

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Graduate Series #9: Turning Your Thesis into Journal Articles

 
 
 
Blogs

Deep-Time Desert Environments

Published: 2026
By Professor Joanne Clarke, School of History and Art History, University of East Anglia In...

‘Tale as old as time’: the passage of British language on Israel-Palestine

Published: 2026
By Elizabeth Eastwood Dewing, Winner of the CBRL Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2025: Levantine Archaeology or...

To Make Things Grow: Digitising Archives at CBRL Amman

Published: 2026
By Yasmin Fedda, Palestinian artist, filmmaker, cultural producer, and academic. To Make Things Grow is...

Explore the 'Surfacing Zarqa' Digital Exhibition!

The Surfacing Zarqa Digital Exhibition is now available online, presenting a collection of oral histories, photographs, memories, audio recordings, and creative interpretations developed through the Surfacing Zarqa project.

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