517 search results for “arabic petra” in the Public website
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Why Arabic?
In August 2006 a young American called Raed Jarrar discovered Arabic’s potency. Detained by four guards at New York’s Kennedy Airport for wearing a T-shirt with “We will not be silent” on it in Arabic, he was told that he may as well be entering a bank with a T-shirt announcing “I am a robber.”
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Petra Sijpesteijn - Reading beyond the Words: What Arabic Papyri Can Tell Us
This talk will be hosted on Thursday, 7 November 2024 at 6:00 pm.
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Wit and Wisdom in Classical Arabic Literature
This book contains the first three Leiden-Aramco Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture delivered by Petra Sijpesteijn, James E. Montgomery and Geert Jan van Gelder.
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Reading Arabic: legibility studies for the Arabic script
What is the cost of visual complexity? This dissertation sets out to determine the effect of the complexity of word formation on the legibility of Arabic and the role that vocalization plays in reading.
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Petra CouvéeFaculty of Humanities
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Petra EversFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Petra ScheepersAdministratief Shared Service Centre
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Petra SlabberUniversitair Facilitair Bedrijf
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Petra BoerlageBestuursbureau
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Petra Penning
Expertisecentrum SOZ
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Petra Nowee
Gelieerde instellingen
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Petra BoudewijnFaculty of Humanities
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Petra Awad
Science
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Petra HogenboomFaculty of Humanities
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The Excellence of the Arabs
Library of Arabic Literature: Critical Edition and Translation of Ibn Qutaybah’s Faḍl al-ʿArab.
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Politeness in Arabic Papyrus Letters
An overview of a new research project: Politeness in Arabic Papyrus Letters
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Politeness in Arabic Papyrus Letters
An overview of new research project: Politeness in Arabic Papyrus Letters
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Imagining the Arabs
Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam
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Arabic
We offer General Language Courses and custom-made language training.
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Petra BarneveldFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Petra van der HelmFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Petra van der Laken
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Petra Jochems-VerschurenFaculty of Humanities
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Petra 't HartFaculty of Humanities
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Petra van der WeelFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Petra Zuijderduijn-DijcksVeiligheid, Gezondheid en Milieu
- Workshop: Arabic manuscripts and how to read them (Two-day introductory workshop)
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Arabic Studies
Dating back more than 400 years, Leiden University has the oldest continuous chair of Arabic outside the Arabic-speaking world. Today the MENA region is studied at Leiden from before the coming of Islam up to today from a wide array of disciplines. And Arabic is studied within the diverse linguistic,…
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- Arabic Conversation
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Anna Petra Nieboer
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Remembering Dissent and Disillusion in the Arab World
This project investigates generational dialogues about the legacies and memories of labour, student and communist movements in the Arab world. The research focuses in particular on video and installation art by young makers born in the 1980s that address the generation of their parents and the events…
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Private Arabic Classes
The institute offers private Arabic tutoring to the general public, taught by the NVIC staff teachers. We offer classes in both Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, on all levels.
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Language Courses Arabic
The Academic Language Centre Leiden offers Arabic language courses at many different levels, an intensive summer course and customised Arabic language training. The courses are practical in nature: focusing on the use of the language. More information can be found here >
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Petra van den BekeromFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Petra de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Arabic & Islamic Studies
The Institute organises Arabic courses for universities, but also for companies, international organisations and individuals.
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Disclosing Arabic Papyri from the Leiden University Library
Leiden University is famous for its library’s large collection of Oriental manuscripts. Part of this collection is a group of 104 Arabic documents written on papyrus and paper (Or. 8264 and 12885). These documents date from the 7th through 10th century CE and cover a wide range of subjects (private…
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Petra van Egmond-Herruer
Universitair Facilitair Bedrijf
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Petra Kamer-de GraafBestuursbureau
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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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Arabic Language and Culture (BA)
Do you want to discover a language and culture that is completely different from the Netherlands?
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The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World
Did you know that Arabic was for centuries the lingua franca in an area stretching from the south of Spain to the Chinese border? And that the Middle East under Muslim rule was the world’s beating heart of trade, but also of science and scholarship?
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Arabic & Islamic Studies
Research projects which are assisted by the NVIC in the field of Arabic studies.
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Arabic in context: celebrating 400 years of Arabic at Leiden university
The edited volume 'Arabic in context: celebrating 400 years of Arabic at Leiden University' edited by Ahmad Al-Jallad is out. The volume contains the contributions to the 2013 conference with the same title, held at Leiden University and was published as part of Brill's the Studies in Semitics Language…
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TAFL Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language
From Sunday 12 January till Tuesday 21 January 2025, NVIC organizes a new edition of the TAFL course. This intensive, interactive course is developed for (future) teachers of Arabic. It addresses both the practical aspects of teaching Arabic as a foreign language as well as the underlying linguistic…