3,215 search results for “culture of the middle east” in the Public website
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2008 Culture and cognition of Palaeolithic hominins
The Palaeolithic period extends from the earliest stone tools (and in Europe, earliest occupation) to the beginning of the current warm period.
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The Tocharian Trek
A linguistic reconstruction of the migration of the Tocharians from Europe to China
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Online Experience Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Study information
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Adriana Churampi Ramirez
Faculty of Humanities
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Hugo Koning
Faculty of Humanities
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Alisa van de Haar
Faculty of Humanities
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Jamaseb Soltani
Faculty of Humanities
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Squaramide-based supramolecular materials for 3D cell culture applications
A new type of tripodal squaramide-based supramolecular hydrogels is developed and studied.
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The United States and China in the Era of Global Transformations: Geographies of Rivalry
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of China's global resurgence and its effects on U.S. dominance.
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Borders and Mobility Control in and between Empires and Nation-States | Studies in Global Migration History, Volume: 46/14
In a modernist interpretation of migration controls, nation states play a major role. This book challenges this interpretation by showing that comprehensive migration checks and permanent border controls appeared much earlier, in early modern dynastic states and empires, and predated nation states by…
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Language policy and planning
From the smallest level of interaction among families and close friends, over the meso-level of schools, shops, churches, religious communities and companies, to the highest level of nation-states and international organisations: Language Policy and Planning (LPP) is everywhere!
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The Archaeology of Syria – From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (ca. 16,000 -300 BC)
This book is the first comprehensive presentation of the archaeology of Syria from the end of the Paleolithic period to 300 BC.
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Arabic and its Alternatives
Arabic and its Alternatives discusses the complicated relationships between language, religion and communal identities in the Middle East in the period following the First World War.
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Annual conference
Until 2019, LUCIS organised an annual conference to highlight state-of-the-art research on a central theme within the academic study of Islam and society. Researchers from around the globe convened in Leiden to share and discuss their work.
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How Jihadist Networks Operate
The recent terrorist attacks in Europe are presumably not just acts committed by individuals, but acts facilitated by larger jihadist networks. But how do such networks operate? Understanding their modus operandi can be useful knowledge to counter terrorist threats.
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Alumni blog
Interested in studying Colonial and Global History at Leiden University? Find out what our alumni said about this master's programme.
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Oriental Dance intermediate/advanced
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Oriental dance beginners
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Alumni
Leiden University is proud of her alumni. Alumni contribute in many different ways to the growth and development of the university. The university also contributes to ongoing personal and professional development of her alumni.
- BA Spring Middle East Studies programme
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Happisburgh, East Anglia
The research Early Pleistocene human occupation at the edge of the boreal zone in northwest Europe published 8th July 2010 in Nature is part of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain (AHOB) project, in which the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University is involved.
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Third annual conference of the Leiden Center for East African Law at Strathmore University, Nairobi
On the 27th April 2017, the third annual conference of the Leiden Center for East African Law (LEAC) took place at Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya. The theme of the conference was ‘East African Law: A Common Market, Opportunities and Challenges for the Business Community’.
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Programme structure
The international bachelor's programme in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology covers three years, allowing you to establish a firm foundation and specialise in topics that you find interesting.
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Launch project of the Leiden centre for the legal and comparative study of the East African Community (LEAC)
With the economic surge in East Africa, the East African Community, formally founded in 1999 and now consisting of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, is rapidly developing. A common market is being established, and a monetary union is under construction. The EAC thereby forms an important…
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Style and Society in the Prehistory of West Asia
Essays in Honour of Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse
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The analytical- reconstructive process of the reduced orchestral works in France from the post-Lully generation (1687-1744)
How to reconstruct the middle parts (videlicet haute-contres, tailles and quintes) from French orchestral pieces, which survived only in their reduced forms (featuring primarely dessus and continuo), according to historical examples?
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Nick Tomberge
Faculty of Humanities
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Victor Klinkenberg
Faculteit Archeologie
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Bleda Düring
Faculteit Archeologie
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Data Atlas of Byzantine and Ottoman Material Culture
Archiving Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeological Fieldwork Data from the Eastern Mediterranean (600-2000)
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Building the Library
Leiden University is building a new Middle Eastern Library. This new library will lie at the heart of Cluster Zuid on the new Humanities Campus and will endeavour to provide a sense of community, a pleasant study and working environment and modern facilities for researchers and students in Middle Eastern…
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Beyond the caves
The central question of this thesis is: What drives late Middle Paleolithic stone artifact variability? In its attempt to answer this question, this thesis is a contribution to understanding variability within and between late Middle Paleolithic assemblages of the European Plain.
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Museums of themselves: disaster, heritage, and disaster heritage in Tohoku
The 2011 disasters precipitated widespread concern among heritage scholars about the fate of Tohoku’s cultural properties, tangible and intangible. Damage to not only buildings and landscapes but also ‘formless’ heritage, some worried, could weaken social infrastructure and thus slow or undermine re…
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PhD
The Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (CADS) of Leiden University hosts almost 50 PhD candidates working on a wide variety of topics.
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Sustainability courses and programmes
Leiden University offers its students a wide range of bachelor's, master's and minors that explore sustainability or climate. Here, you find an overview of those programmes in the academic year 2020-2021.
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Anita Keizers
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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LUCIP workshop: Meeting in the Middle
Conference
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The Future is Elsewhere: Towards a Comparative History of the Futurities of the Digital (R)evolution
How did digital intermediality symbolise and facilitate the transfer of content from popular culture into policy statements and vice versa in the period between 1945 and the new millenium?
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Leiden University brought together the EU and the East African Community in first LEAC conference
On 29 and 30 April 2015 the Leiden Centre for East African Law (LEAC) hosted its first Annual Conference in Kigali, Rwanda. The conference was organized in cooperation with the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) and compared integration through law in the EU and the EAC.
- Teaching Chinese Language and Culture (MA)
- Admission and Application
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Internationalisation of the bachelor's programme in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University
What are the social, cultural, and/or educational consequences and challenges linked to the introduction of the international bachelor's programme in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology?
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Judith Naeff
Faculty of Humanities
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Discovery of a unique silver bowl from the Early Middle Ages
On an excavation site in Oegstgeest Leiden University archaeologists discovered a very rare silver bowl from the first half of the seventh century. The bowl is decorated with gold-plated representations of animals and plants and inlaid with semi-precious stones. The discovery suggests the existence…
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Beyond the trenches
A landscape-oriented chronostratigraphic approach to MIS 5 Middle Paleolithic open-air sites on the European Plain : case studies from Lichtenberg and Khotylevo I
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Noa Schonmann
Faculty of Humanities
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The Discovery of El Greco: The Nationalization of Culture Versus the Rise of Modern Art (1860-1915)
The Discovery of El Greco: The Nationalization of Culture Versus the Rise of Modern Art (1860-1915)
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Storytelling and material culture around the Peace Palace in The Hague
Perception of material culture, design and digital knowledge applications
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Religion and Trade: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900
This book published by Oxford University Press discusses religion and trade in world history.