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The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) is pleased to invite members and non-members to attend the 2026 BRISMES Annual Lecture with Rafeef Ziadah. The lecture is co-hosted at SOAS by the Centre for Palestine Studies (CPS) and the SOAS Middle East Institute (SMEI) and will be held in a hybrid format. The current moment has generated an extraordinary volume of writing, testimony and documentation about Palestine. Much of this work is indispensable – naming and recording the conditions Palestinians are living through remains politically urgent. But there is also a need to ask what forms of analysis are required beyond description, and what knowledge production in solidarity with Palestine might mean at this conjuncture. This presentation considers Palestine not only through the immediacy of destruction, but through the political and economic projects being assembled around it. It looks at infrastructures of regional integration, energy, logistics, reconstruction and normalisation, and at the ways these projects attempt to produce a particular future for Gaza and for the region more broadly. It asks what becomes visible when we analyse these processes together, and what forms of knowledge might help us think beyond both catastrophe and the political horizons being imposed in its aftermath. Registration This event is free to attend, but registration is required. Seating is allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Image © natanaelginting / Adobe Stock

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