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Her Royal Highness Princess Sumaya,  in conversation with Pasha Sayel Rushaida and CBRL Director Prof Bill Finlayson at the reception marking the 25th anniversary of the British Instiute in Amman, October 2003
 
His Royal Highness Prince Hassan Bin Talal, Patron of the British Institute in Amman, arrives for the reception
Her Royal Highness Princess Sumaya is welcomed to the reception by Prof Bill Finlayson, Prof Alastair Northedge and Jessica Jacobs the Amman Research Officer
Dr. Pierre Bikai, the director of the American Centre for Oriental Research, and Dr. Patricia Bikai arrive at the reception
Other guests at the reception included Dr. Graham Phillip from the University of Durham (second from right) and Dr. Alan Walmsley from the Carsten Niebuhr Institute in Copenhagen (first from right), both of whom have been involved with the institute for many years
 

 
 
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October 2004
CBRL launches Leverhulme Trust Research Project 'Water, Life and Civilisation'
Pictures of the launch of this five year project organised by the University of Reading with CBRL and under the patronage of HRH Prince Hassan Bin Talal.

October 2004
Jezreel Project
The Jezreel Project has been updated.

November 2003
Reception under the patronage of HRH Prince Hassan Bin Talal to mark the 25th anniversary of the British Institute in Amman and launch of the new regional research centre

October 2nd 2003

In 2003 CBRL Amman celebrated the 25th anniversary of the formal founding of the British Insititute in Amman for Archaeology and History (BIAAH) with a grant from the British Academy.
The reception took place on October 2nd 2003 under the patronage of HRH Prince Hassan Bin Talal, who is a long-standing supporter of the BIAAH and its successor body in Jordan, the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL).
Other guests of honour included HRH Princess Sarwat and Princess Sumaya.
This reception also marked the formal inauguration of the CBRL's regional centre in Amman.

The history starts earlier, perhaps in 1968 when two truckloads of excavation and kitchen equipment were moved East of the Jordan from the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem for the use of School members operating out of Amman. Crystal Bennett first took a room in the Philadelphia Hotel and then a flat from 1970 as an office and a base for British excavations in Jordan. In 1971 lectures were first given in Amman. In 1980 Crystal Bennett was formerly made the first Director of the BIAAH.

As well as celebrating 25 years of a British Institute in Amman we also marked the launch of the Institute in Amman as a regional research centre. The remit has broadened beyond archaeology and now covers UL based arts and humanities research. Currently, CBRL is directly supporting 25 projects in Jordan, 12 in Syria, 5 in Lebanon, 3 in Cyprus and 5 region-wide projects, as well as many other projects at doctoral level.

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