650 search results for “middle east and north africa” in the Staff website
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Podcast: The Tragic Fate of Egyptologist Herta Mohr
Leiden University recently named a new building for Egyptologist Herta Mohr. But who was she?
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Leiden University Libraries elected to the Executive Committee of the IIIF Consortium
Leiden University Libraries has been elected to the Executive Committee of the IIIF Consortium. The term of office is two years starting from January 2022.
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Gerrit Dusseldorp
Faculteit Archeologie
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Femke Lippok
Faculteit Archeologie
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Petra Sijpesteijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Worlds to Discover: Ajami Manuscripts of West Africa
Lecture, Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Rethinking the Scramble for Africa: Dutch Entrepreneurs in West Central Africa (1850s-1910s)
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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Religiosity and Knowledge in Muslim Context in West Africa: Reconfiguring the Relationship between Boko and Adini
Lecture, LUCIS Keynotes
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Podcast tips for Pentecost
Are you looking for some listening material for the upcoming long weekend? Staff members and alumni of the Faculty of Humanities have been creating various podcasts over the last few months. A selection is shown here:
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Yemen Amsterdam Library now available
The Yemen Amsterdam Library, or Maktabat al-Yaman al-Amstirdāmīyah, of eminent Yemen specialist Dr C.G. Brouwer has now been fully integrated in the collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL). Books and other documents from the collection are now available for loan via the UBL Catalogue.
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Azeb Amha
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Modern Arabic titles in catalogue searchable in Arabic script
Modern Arabic titles in the catalogue of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) can now also be consulted in original Arabic script. Taking away the need to transliterate titles, has made searching for Arabic source materials in the catalogue much easier and more efficient for users.
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Clay tablets dating back thousands of years moved: ‘From receipts to the oldest literary works’
How do you move 3,000 fragile clay tablets that date back thousands of years? This was the challenge faced by staff from the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO). After years of preparation, the Liagre Böhl collection has been moved on trolleys to its new home.
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Athina Boleti
Faculteit Archeologie
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Bleda Düring
Faculteit Archeologie
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Erik Odegard
Faculty of Humanities
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Victor Klinkenberg
Faculteit Archeologie
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Vincent Chang
Faculty of Humanities
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Leila Demarest
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Felix Ameka
Faculty of Humanities
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Podcast: an introduction to the Persian Book of Kings
How did the mythical kings of ancient Persia live? In this podcast, we delve into the Shahnameh, also known as the Book of Kings.
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Rolf Bremmer
Faculty of Humanities
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Geeske Langejans
Faculteit Archeologie
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Thijs Porck
Faculty of Humanities
- Forgotten heroes
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Relocation bike parking University Library
Facility, Library
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023
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Paul Kloeg
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Wim van den Doel
College van Bestuur
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Una Europa–Africa Partnership Seed Funding Call 2023: Launch webinar
Webinar
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Tsolin Nalbantian receives Comenius grant: 'We must bridge the gap between education and society'
In academia, the mention of Wikipedia might be met with suspicion. However, for Tsolin Nalbantian, university lecturer Modern Middle Eastern Studies, the encyclopedia is an opportunity to broaden the skills of her students and to increase public knowledge. She received a Teaching Comenius Fellowship…
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Agnieszka Kazimierczuk
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Wouter van Beek
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Fábio Bonfim Duarte
Faculty of Humanities
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NWO grant for research about crossing language borders: ‘ We know very little about how multilingualism works outside Western societies’
Professor Felix Ameka and university lecturer Maria del Carmen Parafita Couta have received an NWO Open Competition grant together with Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam) to do research on ‘code-switching’: switching languages by multilinguals.
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Nathalie Brusgaard
Faculteit Archeologie
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Harry Fokkens
Faculteit Archeologie
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Arjan Louwen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Louise Olerud
Faculteit Archeologie
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Florian Helmecke
Faculteit Archeologie
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Richard Jansen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Erik Kroon
Faculteit Archeologie
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Quentin Bourgeois
Faculteit Archeologie
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In memoriam: Prof. dr. J.T.P. de Bruijn (1931-2023)
On Monday 23 January 2023 J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn passed away at the age of 91. Until 1995 he held the Chair of New Persian Language and Culture at Leiden University.
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Steven Lauritano
Faculty of Humanities
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Mandela Scholarship Fund
Bachelor, Master
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024
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Gorlaeus laboratory
During an evacuation, all employees and students gather in front of the round 'saucer', or on the east or west side of the Gorlaeus Building. In bad weather or in case of escalation, gather at the sport centre.
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How did Proto-Indo-European reach Asia?
Five thousand years before the common era (BCE), Proto-Indo-European, the mother of many languages that are spoken today in Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, originated in eastern Europe. PhD candidate Axel Palmér has combined a 175-year-old hypothesis with new techniques to demonstrate how descendants…
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New Cluster Zuid building is taking shape
A lot has happened at Cluster Zuid since the highest point of the building was reached in December. See the photo report below.