Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL)

[ Call for Submissions ] CBRL Dissertation Prizes 2026 🎓📄 Nominations are invited for outstanding final-year undergraduate and Master’s dissertations for the CBRL Dissertation Prizes in the following two categories:

🔸 Eligibility: Dissertations examined in 2025 or 2026, written in English, and demonstrating outstanding academic quality and an original contribution to research.

[ Call for Submissions ] CBRL Dissertation Prizes 2026 🎓📄 Nominations are invited for outstanding final-year undergraduate and Master’s dissertations for the CBRL Dissertation Prizes in the following two categories:

[ CBRL–PEF UK Book Launch ] Peasant Agriculture in the Jerusalem Hills CBRL and The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) are pleased to invite you to the launch of Peasant Agriculture in the Jerusalem Hills, by Lucjan Turkowski, edited by Carol Palmer.

Registration: 🔸 Attend in person: Seats are limited, so please register before 19 October 2026. forms.cloud.microsoft/e/NFsMvu4Ute 🔸 Attend online: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

[ CBRL–PEF UK Book Launch ] Peasant Agriculture in the Jerusalem Hills CBRL and The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) are pleased to invite you to the launch of Peasant Agriculture in the Jerusalem Hills, by Lucjan Turkowski, edited by Carol Palmer.

Drawing on Turkowski’s research during the final years of the British Mandate, the book offers a detailed account of Palestinian fellahin and rural life in the Jerusalem hills, exploring agricultural practices, animal management, craft production, local knowledge and material culture.

[Learning Circles] The Learning Circles are part of the research project "Reconfiguring Heritage: Present Engagements with Communities’ Pasts for Resilient Futures".

The circles are a space for youth to learn, unlearn, and collectively rethink heritage to reclaim agency over its meaning-making and praxis through critical and reflexive reviews of literature and media and dialogical exercises. 📍 Amman, Jordan

We thank Dr Carol Palmer for generously gifting a copy of her newly published book, Peasant Agriculture in the Jerusalem Hills, to the CBRL Amman Library.

We are pleased to add this valuable publication to our collection and to celebrate Dr Palmer’s contribution to the study of the region’s agricultural and cultural heritage. Congratulations, Dr Palmer, and thank you for sharing your work with the CBRL community! 🌿📖

[ Diwan #10 ] Under the patronage of the President of the University of Jordan, HE Prof. Nathir Obeidat, in cooperation with the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL), the French Institute for the Near East (IFPO), -

🗓 13–14 October 2026 📍 University of Jordan, Amman Conference Hall at Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II School of Political Science and International Studies (in-person event)

[ Diwan #10 ] Under the patronage of the President of the University of Jordan, HE Prof. Nathir Obeidat, in cooperation with the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL), the French Institute for the Near East (IFPO), -

[ CBRL–PEF UK Book Launch ] Peasant Agriculture in the Jerusalem Hills CBRL and the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) (@palexfund.bsky.social) are pleased to invite you to the launch of Peasant Agriculture in the Jerusalem Hills, by Lucjan Turkowski, edited by Carol Palmer.

Registration: 🔸 Attend in person: Seats are limited, so please register before 5 October 2026. forms.cloud.microsoft/e/NFsMvu4Ute 🔸 Attend online: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

[ CBRL–PEF UK Book Launch ] Peasant Agriculture in the Jerusalem Hills CBRL and the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) (@palexfund.bsky.social) are pleased to invite you to the launch of Peasant Agriculture in the Jerusalem Hills, by Lucjan Turkowski, edited by Carol Palmer.

Drawing on Turkowski’s research during the final years of the British Mandate, the book offers a detailed account of Palestinian fellahin and rural life in the Jerusalem hills, exploring agricultural practices, animal management, craft production, local knowledge and material culture.

CBRL Amman successfully concluded its Building Professional Capacity for Heritage Documentation, Registration, and Sustainable Management in Jordan training programme, held from 6–17 September 2026 at the CBRL Amman Institute.

CBRL Amman thanks the Commonwealth Heritage Forum (CHF) for funding this initiative, and the trainers and participants for their expertise, commitment, and contributions to the programme.

CBRL Amman successfully concluded its Building Professional Capacity for Heritage Documentation, Registration, and Sustainable Management in Jordan training programme, held from 6–17 September 2026 at the CBRL Amman Institute.

The programme brought together architects and municipal representatives from Jordan, Palestine, & Syria to provide participants with the opportunity to learn practical skills in documenting, assessing, registering, & supporting the sustainable management of Jordan’s architectural & urban heritage.

Thank you to everyone who attended yesterday's lecture at CBRL Amman, titled “The British Institute in the 1980s and the Azraq Basin Prehistory Project”, delivered by Prof. Andrew Garrard.

3 days left to apply! ⏰👀 CBRL is seeking a part-time Archive Assistant to join the team at the CBRL Kenyon Institute in East Jerusalem. The successful candidate will support the digitisation, cataloguing and documentation of archival materials, including photographs, slides and documents.

Join us next Monday for our upcoming lecture: [ The British Institute in the 1980s and the Azraq Basin Prehistory Project ] 👤 Speaker: Prof. Andrew Garrard Honorary Associate Professor, Institute of Archaeology, University College London

- before turning to the Azraq Basin Early Prehistory Project, a major field project investigating the environmental and settlement history of eastern Jordan from the Late Upper Palaeolithic through the Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic.

Join us next Monday for our upcoming lecture: [ The British Institute in the 1980s and the Azraq Basin Prehistory Project ] 👤 Speaker: Prof. Andrew Garrard Honorary Associate Professor, Institute of Archaeology, University College London

[ CBRL–PEF UK Book Launch ]  Peasant Agriculture in the Jerusalem Hills CBRL and the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) are pleased to invite you to the launch of Peasant Agriculture in the Jerusalem Hills, by Lucjan Turkowski, edited by Carol Palmer.

Professor Dina Matar will chair the panel discussion, with panellists Dr Mazen Iwaisi, Dr Muna Dajani and Leila Sansour. 🔹 23 October 2026 🔹 6 PM UK time 🔹 University of Notre Dame, London & Online via Zoom

[ CBRL–PEF UK Book Launch ]  Peasant Agriculture in the Jerusalem Hills CBRL and the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) are pleased to invite you to the launch of Peasant Agriculture in the Jerusalem Hills, by Lucjan Turkowski, edited by Carol Palmer.

Join us for our upcoming lecture: [ The British Institute in the 1980s and the Azraq Basin Prehistory Project ] 👤 Speaker: Prof. Andrew Garrard Honorary Associate Professor, Institute of Archaeology, University College London

- before turning to the Azraq Basin Early Prehistory Project, a major field project investigating the environmental and settlement history of eastern Jordan from the Late Upper Palaeolithic through the Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic.

Join us for our upcoming lecture: [ The British Institute in the 1980s and the Azraq Basin Prehistory Project ] 👤 Speaker: Prof. Andrew Garrard Honorary Associate Professor, Institute of Archaeology, University College London