Professor Karma Nabulsi receives 2024 BRISMES Service Award

Congratulations to Professor Karma Nabulsi, Senior Research Fellow in Politics, who is this year’s recipient of the BRISMES Service Award.

The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) was founded in 1973 to provide a forum for educators and researchers in the field. The award was announced at the society’s annual conference held at Lancaster University earlier this month; it is the largest and most prestigious annual UK gathering of scholars and practitioners focusing on the region.

The award was made in recognition of the immense impact Karma’s research has had on the field – especially in relation to 18th- and 19th-century political thought, the laws of war, and the contemporary history and politics of Palestinian refugees – and her direction of a bilingual digital teaching and research resource, currently hosted at Oxford’s Department of International Development. The BRISMES Council also recognised Karma’s commitment to doctoral supervision and teaching as well as her leadership and ongoing efforts to defend academic freedom and freedom of expression in relation to teaching and research on the Middle East.