A quick reminder about our School of Media, Arts and Humanities event this week:

What: Cambridge University's Dr Zeina Al Azmeh's talk 'The Rise of Persecution Capital'
When: 16.00 on Friday, 19 April 2024
Where: in Jub-36 on @SussexUni campus, Falmer

All welcome 🙏

Eid Mubarak

Join us at 16.00 on Friday, 19 Apr 24, for Dr Zeina Al Azmeh's (@Cambridge_Uni) talk 'The Rise of Persecution Capital' in Jub-G36 here School of Media, Arts and Humanities @SussexUni

Full details in the poster. All welcome 🙏

MENACS School of Media, Arts and Humanities @SussexUni is proud to be co-sponsoring SARN UK's International Conference at Sussex the Autumn of 2025.

Find out more about Syrian Academics & Researchers Network- UK (SARN UK) and the Network's Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded activities through this episode of the Education, Peace and Politics podcast.

Book launch!

'Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at its Margin', with the author Max Gallien and chair Shandana Khan Mohmand.

Thursday 21 March at 16:00 (UK time). Online and in-person Institute of Development Studies.

Register 👉ac.pulse.ly/jfbw1rx32i

MENACS is thrilled to be working with BRISMES and SARN UK Syrian Academics & Researchers Network- UK and co-sponsoring the Network's Internartional Conference in Autumn 2025 University of Sussex University of SussexMAH.

📢📢 MENACS Book Launch 📚📚

Translating the Language of the Syrian Revolution (2011/12) by Dr Eylaf Bader Eddin

Date: Wednesday, 14 Feb 2024
Time: 17.00-18.30
Venue: MAH Resource Centre (Room 4) School of Media, Arts and Humanities

Discussant: Dr Zeina Al Azmeh Cambridge University
Chair: Dr Feras Alkabani

📢📢 MENACS Book Launch 📚📚

Translating the Language of the Syrian Revolution (2011/12) by Eylaf Bader Eddin

Date: Wednesday, 14 February 2024
Time: 17.00-18.30
Venue: MAH Resource Centre (Room 4); University of Sussex School of Media, Arts and Humanities
Chair: Dr Feras Alkabani

All welcome 🙏

📢📢 MENACS Book Launch 📚

Translating the Language of the Syrian Revolution (2011/12) by Eylaf Bader Eddin

Date: Wednesday, 14 February 2024
Time: 17.00-18.30
Venue: MAH Resource Centre (Room 4); University of Sussex School of Media, Arts and Humanities
Chair:  Dr Feras Alkabani

All welcome 🙏

Inviting applications for “Locating Palestine in the Arab Americas”: workshop exploring central role played by Arab diaspora communities in the Palestinian struggle, from New York City to Santiago de Chile.
lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/news/2024/01/1…

📢 Join Farida El Keiy and organisers of the 4th Biennial Arabic Language Teaching and Learning Conference Cambridge University
on April 18, 2024! 🌍 Explore the theme 'Translanguaging and Linguistic Diversity in Arabic.' Register now: ames.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/fourt…. Deadline: March 28, 2024

The Fourth Biennial Arabic Language Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Conference is happening at the University of Cambridge on April 18, 2024. The theme is 'Translanguaging and Linguistic Diversity in Arabic'. Register: bit.ly/3uXQIfZ. Deadline is Mar 28 2024.

Join us at our next event: Nerouz Satik's talk 'Hadra Heterotopia: Sufi Ritual Interactions in the Hereafter of the 2011 Syrian Uprising' at 13.00-14.30 on 5 December in Arts C233.

This event will be chaired by MENACS Committee Member, Dr Wassim Naboulsi.

All Welcome!

Join us School of Media, Arts and Humanities for a Halloween-themed film screening featuring Ana Lilly Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), with an introduction and a conversation with MENACS Film Curator, Zeina Frangie-Eyres, and Dr Despoina Mantziari (Media & Film).

MENACS stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people as they suffer mass bombardment, displacement and removal of basic supplies.

We recommend donating to the emergency appeal issued by Medical Aid for Palestinians: map.org.uk/donate/donatio…

The BRISMES Council & Committee on Academic Freedom have today released a statement on the ongoing attack on free speech on UK campuses.
Read the statement: brismes.ac.uk/news/brismes-s… (1/3)

Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, 18 October 2023, on campus. All welcome!

Next week, five doctoral researchers will present their work as part of @menacsussex PhD Work in Progress Workshop! This is a great opportunity for PGRs across MAH to network, learn about colleagues’ work and sample an informal presentation.

Join us! sussex.ac.uk/schools/media-…

📢 PhD Work in Progress Workshop 📢

Join us at our upcoming @MENACS PhD in Progress
Workshop School of Media, Arts and Humanities

When: 18 Oct 2023 at 15.00-16.30

Where: Room 4 - MAH Resource Centre (formerly LLC) in Arts A @SussexUni.

All welcome 🙏

We are pleased to have welcomed 40 Syrian academics and researchers to our annual conference at
Cambridge University. Over the course of this two-day event, we forged connections between Syrian academics and researchers and celebrated our culture, music, and food (1/4)