Dr Björn Brenner serves as the Military Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria. Björn's work on Syria as a scholar of Middle Eastern studies and analyst spans a decade - and began in 2009 as a student at…
THE MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES BOOK PRIZE SPONSORED BY THE BRITISH-KUWAIT FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY Dr Björn Brenner, a UN advisor and post-doctoral fellow at the Swedish Defence University, was named Runner Up to the 2018 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize, the most…
Dr Björn Brenner has joined the United Nations to serve as an advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria. Before the conflict started, Bjorn studied in Syria and stayed in Damascus, Aleppo and Raqqa for longer periods of time.…
ARTICLE BY BJÖRN BRENNER The latest issue of Palestine-Israel Journal features an article by Björn Brenner on the growth of Salafi-Jihadism in Gaza under Hamas. "The killing of Vittorio Arrigoni: A result of the unsustainable situation in Gaza", Palestine-Israel Journal,…
PALESTINE BOOK AWARDS An international jury of social scientists and political experts has chosen Björn Brenner's GAZA UNDER HAMAS (I.B. Tauris, 2017) as the winner of this year's Palestine Book Awards. Björn's book won in the category Best academic book…
ANALYSIS BY BJÖRN BRENNER Following IS/Daesh's ouster from Raqqa, new local conflict lines emerge as different actors begin to manoeuvre aspiring to gain control over the war-torn territory. Summary of analysis: ”One of the key policy analysis questions now is…
PUBLIC DISCUSSION WITH BJÖRN BRENNER On the 17th October, the Swedish National Film Institute will air OMAR (2013) and afterwards host a public discussion with Björn Brenner about its content, led by Hans Brun. The event will take place at…
ARTICLE BY BJÖRN BRENNER Hamas has often been described as the Palestinian chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood. This picture fits quite well with what the relationship between these two groups looked like in the 1980s, some thirty years ago. However,…
INTERVIEW WITH BJÖRN BRENNER "The burden of responsibility: Hamas rule in Gaza", TLV1 The Tel Aviv Review, 11 August 2017." In this interview, Dr Björn Brenner discusses his new book GAZA UNDER HAMAS (London: I.B. Tauris, 2017) and personal impressions…
SEMINARS WITH BJÖRN BRENNER during Sweden's annual democracy week Almedalen 2017. This year, Björn Brenner focused on the social situation in Jordan and criticised the country's poor educational system. Brenner warned that the Jordanian youth lack sufficient tools to be…
