CBRL news July 2019
Welcome to CBRL’s July newsletter.

It is with deep sadness that this month we share the news that, after a short illness, our dear colleague, Dr Andrea Zerbini, Assistant Director of CBRL’s institute in Amman, passed away at his home in Italy. Andrea was appointed Assistant Director in Amman in June 2018 having previously been a CBRL Fellow (2013 - 2014). He was a core member of the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) team at Oxford University and continued his association with EAMENA w hilst in Amman until recently. Andrea loved CBRL and Jordan and the six months he spent with us are very precious ones for us all. Before his passing, Andrea set up a fund to provide annual scholarships for European graduates to travel to the Middle East to better know the cul ture and people of the region. If you would like to make a donation and, for those who knew Andrea, share photos or memories on the page there, please visit: bit.ly/2xR4ws4 . We send our deepest sympathies to Andrea’s family and wife, Karen Zerbini Iles. 

The deadline for nominations to CBRL's 2019 Undergraduate Dissertation Prizes in Levantine Studies is fast approaching (31st July). We invite UK based heads of departments or chairs of departmental examination boards to  nominate   one first-class final year dissertation on either ancient or contemporary Levant, details here.

The call is still open (deadline 15th August) for Lebanese based scholars, professionals and NGO workers in the field of cultural heritage to visit the UK for training and research through CBRL's partnership with the Nahrein Network Visiting Scholarship Scheme. More details here.

During July, CBRL's Carol Palmer and Toufic Haddad have been attending conferences and workshops and over the summer months, the institutes are busy welcoming many resident scholars. In Jerusalem, the Kenyon Institute is hosting, for the fourth year running, the Trinity College Dublin Ecumenical Institute's interns with Al-Quds University's Human Rights Clinic in the Old City, as well as the American University's MA environmental peace-building students on their two-week field trip.

We wish everyone a pleasant summer,

With best wishes from all at CBRL
CBRL are thrilled to be partnering with the British Academy on this workshop which will take place in Jordan in January 2020. The call for applications is now open to early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences, from across the Levant and the UK. More details.  
More than 25 years since the establishment of the Wadi Faynan Project in southern Jordan, CBRL are delighted to be partnering on the AHRC  funded Newton-Khalidi project, Our Past, Our Future, All Together in Faynan (OPOF). Read more about the project here .
For a second year running, CBRL will be partnering on a creative writing exchange between Jordan and the North of England - Alta'ir. Listen to last year's participants, award-winning poet Linda France and Jordanian author, playwright, and screenplay writer Mofleh Al Adwan, speak about their experiences of the exchange and Jordanian British author, Fadia Faqir's, motivation to set up the creative exchange here .
From December 2019, CBRL is seeking to appoint up to five new Trustees. This is an exciting time to join our board as we have recently undergone significant change including broadening our income streams and professionalising processes. This is expected to continue and Trustees will play a key role in helping to drive forward the strategic plan. More information here .
News from the field
2019 CBRL Sam Lieu Travel Grant recipient, Christos Papadopoulos (University of Wales Trinity St David) describes his research that maps the migratory movements of ancient Cypriot communities, from the Chalcolithic period until the end of the Late Bronze Age, through dental analysi s. Read more.
CBRL Travel Grant recipient Alice Stefanelli takes a sociological approach and considers the affects of living in a traffic-clogged Beirut. Alice looks at why plans for reconstitution of the city's transportation networks were largely abandoned and the work of NGOs that promote existing public transport networks. Read more.
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