1,615 search results for “culture of the middle east” in the Staff website
-
Training course Leading from the middle
Management, Leadership
-
Stereotypes and Misconceptions about the Middle East - The Reading List
The perception of the Middle East is riddled with stereotypes that have had dire consequences on its people. What is myth and what is reality? How did these stereotypes come about? What consequences have they had? All of these questions and more are answered within this reading list.
- Kids Activities @ Middle Eastern Culture Market
-
Turaj Atabaki
Faculty of Humanities
-
Lidewij van de Peut
Faculty of Humanities
-
Exhibition Early Photography of the Middle East
From Persia and Arabia to North Africa: as early as the nineteenth century, there were Dutch people who used the camera themselves in various regions of the Middle East.
-
Middle Eastern Culture Market 2021: Evening Edition
This year, LUCIS adapted the programme of its popular annual Middle Eastern Culture Market into an evening version, featuring a lecture, book discussion, and music.
-
Book: The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East
Five questions for James Shires, assistant professor at ISGA, about his new book, The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East. The book is available to order now.
-
Women collecting the Middle East: collaborators and collections
Who assembled the collections of museums? The answer to this question seems to point to men as collectors. Apart from for rare exceptions, female collectors hardly seem to exist. Yet there were indeed women collectors. For the project Museums, Collections and Society, researcher Holly O'Farrell will…
-
Cultural contacts between ‘East’ and ‘West’ in the early Middle Ages
With the help of the JEDI fund, Fatima al Moufridji and Thijs Porck went in search of cultural contacts between early medieval England, Northern Africa, and the Middle East. Together they made four knowledge clips that can now be seen on YouTube.
-
Modern Literature from the Middle East - The Reading List
The Middle East has a rich literary tradition, which is steadily gaining a foothold in the West. Modern literary works deal with contemporary issues, such as the legacy of colonialism, the struggles between traditionalism and modernity, the place of women in society and the war in Israel/Palestine.
-
mat Immerzeel
Faculty of Humanities
-
Maaike Warnaar
Faculty of Humanities
-
Tsolin Nalbantian
Faculty of Humanities
-
Workshop Early Photography of the Middle East - In Contact with Collections
On Thursday, May 16, Leiden University Libraries is organizing a workshop on early photography of the Middle East. In the workshop, curator Maartje van den Heuvel shows photos of three adventurous Dutch nineteenth-century travel and photography pioneers. They created beautiful photos and photo albums…
-
Emmanuelle Radar
Faculty of Humanities
-
Ugur Derin
Faculty of Humanities
-
Deniz Tat
Faculty of Humanities
-
Onur Ada
Faculty of Humanities
-
Omer Kocyigit
Faculty of Humanities
-
Erik-jan Zurcher
Faculty of Humanities
-
Ellen Raven
Faculty of Humanities
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2021
-
Political elites and regime change in the Middle East and North Africa: accommodation or exclusion?
Political scientist Kevin Köhler (Leiden University) has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This prestigious grant enables him to set up a research group in the coming five years. Köhler and his team will examine how elite conflict affects processes of regime change…
-
Peace in the Middle East? Students seek solutions in Peace Academy
Finding solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the not-inconsiderable task of the new Peace Academy in The Hague. Professor Maurits Berger and twelve students from different conflict zones are starting a creative thinking process that aims to discover the basic conditions for peace in the…
-
Hannah Plug
Faculteit Archeologie
-
Lecture series Treasures from the Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections and their Wealth of Knowledge
Persian stories with beautiful miniatures, letters on papyrus from Egyptian traders and medicinal manuscripts translated from Greek and edited in Arabic. Studium Generale organizes a lecture series on the world-famous manuscripts from the Middle East collection of Leiden University Libraries (UBL).…
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2021
-
Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
-
Gerrit van der Kooij
Faculteit Archeologie
-
Victoria Nyst
Faculty of Humanities
-
Podcast: Ancient cuneiform tablets reveal their secrets
Leiden scholars study clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia. But what exactly does the cuneiform script say?
-
Jiequan Yong
Faculteit Archeologie
-
Scores of visitors attend open evening at new Middle Eastern Library
Over 200 people paid their first visit to the new Middle Eastern Library on a special open evening. As well as exploring the library, they got to see exhibitions, speed lectures and premieres about Leiden University’s Middle Eastern collections.
-
Discover Leiden University's new Middle Eastern Library and take a closer look at our Middle Eastern collections
An evening program in the University Library and Middle Eastern Library in Leiden for everyone who has something to do with the Middle East; from Tajikistan to the Mahreb and from Istanbul to Sanaa. View the oldest books and clay tablets from the collection and listen to the most fascinating stories…
-
Ying Zhang
Faculty of Humanities
-
Alisa van de Haar
Faculty of Humanities
- What's New?! Fall 2020 Lecture Series
-
Banner exhibition graphic works of Harry van Kruiningen about the Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh was a lifelong inspiration to artist Harry van Kruiningen. This tale from Mesopotamia about the adventures of Gilgamesh, the legendary king of Uruk, and his friend Enkidu is one of the oldest surviving epics in world literature. Despite its almost 4,000 year age, it still captures…
-
Merel Brüning
Faculteit Archeologie
-
Diederik Meijer
Faculteit Archeologie
-
Petra de Bruijn
Faculty of Humanities
-
May Tamimová
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series
-
Babak Rezaeedaryakenari
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
-
Hong Kong's Place in South East Asia
PhD defence
-
Shahab Daneshvar
Faculty of Humanities
-
Maria Riep
Faculteit Archeologie
-
Eftychia Mylona
Faculty of Humanities
-
Shuqi Jia
Faculty of Humanities