Special Events

Upcoming Events

Launch of Ayyubid Jerusalem: A celebration of the publication of Ayyubid Jerusalem published by Altajir Trust will be held on Tues 5th October 2010.

Previous Events

Amongst the events of the Kenyon Institute have also been a number of exclusive book launches of publications dealing with the humanities and social sciences of Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Recent ones include:



On June 22nd we hosted the Jerusalem launch of Dr Roberto Mazza's new book Jerusalem, From the Ottomans to the British, published by IB Tauris, 2009.
In June 2010 we screened Jaffa: The Orange's Clockwork (2010) with Producer Osnat Trabelsi. The film is a political essay excavating the entwined visual and political history of that famous citrus fruit originating in Palestine and known worldwide as the 'Jaffa Orange'.
In November 2009 we launched Sexed Pistols: The Gendered Impacts of Small Arms and Light Weapons (United Nations University Press), with a lecture by contributing author Rela Mazali. Copies of the book are available from the Kenyon Institute for 150 NIS.

In June 2009, we held a celebration in honour of the fourth and final version of Denys Pringle's Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem series, which is now available to order from Cambridge.