4,603 search results for “cultures of the middle east” in the Public website
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Hunters of the Golden Age
The Mid Upper Palaeolithic of Eurasia 30,000 - 20,000 BP
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.
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Tweets from the desert
Uncovering ancient Arabian inscriptions feels like pioneering detective work, says Arabist Michael Macdonald in a video interview with Leiden Islam Centre LUCIS. 'First you have to learn the alphabets that they're written in, and then you have to try and work out what they say.'
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Crisis and Critique Network
This network brings together scholars whose work explores how contemporary frameworks of crisis produce experiences of the present, rehash or disrupt established narratives of the past, and broker specific outlooks on the future. We collaborate in studying these crisis-scapes and exploring how they…
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Graduation ceremony master's programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation Ceremony
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Graduation ceremony master's programme Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Festival, Graduation ceremony
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EU Financial Markets: East meets West
Matthias Haentjens and Ross Spence participated in Warsaw conference and PhD workshop on 16 & 17 November 2018.
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A Textual Study of the *Lakṣaṇaṭīkā
Yoshiyasu Yonezawa defended his thesis on 24 October 2019
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Close encounters of the third kind?
Neanderthals and modern humans in Belgium, a bone story
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Middle Eastern Culture Market 2022
Arts and culture, LUCIS Middle Eastern Culture Market
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Vanessa Newby
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Cortical contributions to cognitive control of language and beyond
On the 12th of October, Fatemeh Tabassi Mofrad successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Fatemeh on this achievement!
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The Legend of Saint Aūr and the Monastery of Naqlūn: The Copto-Arabic Texts
Clara ten Hacken defended her thesis on 16 December 2015
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People Diplomacy in East Asia and Europe
“The ideas from society should be heard in order to narrow the gap between government and the people”. These words from Kwagjin Choi, Korean diplomat and co-architect of South Korea’s People Diplomacy sum up why, in the view of this guest speaker at ISGA, foreign ministries should pay much more attention…
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Laminar Technology and the Onset of the Upper Paleolithic in the Altai, Siberia
The Altai region has yielded a cluster of Middle and Upper Paleolithic stratified sites that have been recently excavated using a multidisciplinary approach.
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Diplomacia y comercio en la Europa Atlántica medieval
This book is a result of the collective research project Urban Societies in the Port Towns of Atlantic Europe in the Late Middle Ages. It studies the connections between diplomacy and trade from a comparative and transnational perspective throughout medieval Atlantic Europe.
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From Single Sign to Pseudo-Script
An Ancient Egyptian System of Workmen’s Identity Marks
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Education
At Leiden University you can study Islam and Muslim societies within two Dutch-language BA and various MA programmes and specializations.
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Tell Ibrahim Awad
Update : August 2017 Dr Willem van Haarlem
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Leiden Europa Institute for student and staff exchanges with East-Africa and Albania
In the context of the Erasmus+ programme on ‘International Credit Mobility’, 17 exchange grants, with a joint worth of €83.000, were awarded to an exchange project between Leiden and East Africa.
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Ideals of Femininity and Female Representation in Nineteenth-century Ukiyo-e
The goal of this research is to examine the emergence of new types of female representation in nineteenth-century ukiyo-e (woodblock prints from early modern Japan) as these images relate to the ideals of femininity of the time.
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Programme structure
This Philosophy bachelor's programme offers perspectives from around the world. It will make you one of the next generation of students who will shape philosophy in the 21st century, ready to take on academic or professional challenges that call for critical thinking, analysis and argumentation skil…
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The historical development of Japanese pitch accent
This thesis investigates the historical development of Japanese pitch accent.
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Creating capitals
The rationale, construction, and function of the imperial capitals of Assyria
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Leiden University to welcome Al-Babtain visiting professors in Arabic culture in 2018-2019
The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) and the Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation will join hands in promoting the understanding of Arabic culture. Generous support from Mr. Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain enables LUCIS to invite a visiting professor in Arabic culture…
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Embracing the Provinces: Society and Material Culture of the Roman Frontier Regions
Embracing the Provinces is a collection of essays focused on people and their daily lives living in the Roman provinces, c. 27 BC-AD 476. It offers an overview of current research on Roman provinces and frontiers, deconstructing some long-held preconceptions and providing refreshing insights into unexplored…
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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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Challenging Myths and Exceptions
Lecture, Film Screening
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Ustadh Mau Digital Archive (UMADA)
Hifadhi ya Dijiti ya Ustadh Mau
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Excavations at Neumark
The Middle Paleolithic site of Neumark was first discovered in the 1980’s by German geologist Matthias Thomae.
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‘City dwellers in Middle Ages no worse off than village dwellers’
City dwellers in the Middle Ages were probably no worse off than people living in villages. Both groups had very different health risks, is Rachel Schats' conclusion from her research on bone material. PhD defence 3 November.
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Research per university
What follows is a survey of existing programs and current projects for each of the participating universities.
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EU lessons for East-Africa? Armin Cuyvers lectures for University of Nairobi on Regional Integration
On 6 June, Armin Cuyvers lectured students and staff of the University of Nairobi on EU law and comparative regional integration
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The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia. A Cultural History
This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, at both the local and the trans-regional levels.
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Thunderstorm: A small cultural history (1752-1830) (in Dutch)
More on the Dutch webpage.
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Ancient Worlds network
The Ancient Worlds Network brings together staff and graduate students in LIAS working on the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern world.
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Political Memory in and after the Persian Empire
An interdisciplinary study of the Persian Period
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The Safaitic scripts
Palaeography of an ancient nomadic writing culture
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About the programme
The two-year research master in Middle Eastern Studies equips you with advanced and in-depth knowledge of a region and discipline within the field of Middle Eastern Studies. You are expected to spend the third semester of the programme doing research, either in the Netherlands or abroad. Blended and…
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From Find Scatters to Early Hominid Behaviour
A Study of Middle Palaeolithic Riverside Settlements at Maastricht-Belvédère (The Netherlands).
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Conflict, Conflict Resolution and Crisis Management
This research cluster is a part of the Institute of Political Science’s research programme ‘Institutions, Decisions and Collective Behaviour’. Its members investigate the drivers of political conflict and various types of crises. They study how citizens, political institutions and international organizations…
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Diplomatic Negotiation – Essence and Evolution
Negotiation can only really be an alternative to warfare, if the parties agree on a framework of rules and procedures. And if the confidence of the partners may increase in another. But negotiations continue to wage war by peaceful means.
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Politics: Chinese migration
Chinese organisations increasingly operate across the borders of China, and growing numbers of people from outside China are coming to live there. Professor Frank Pieke believes these movements have a significant effect on central and local government policy in China.
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Critical moments: How do events affect how we should judge the legitimacy of political authorities?
In what ways do historical and current events affect how we should judge the legitimacy of political authorities?
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Library
Our library contains around 23,000 books, journals and historical documents under the care of a specialized librarian.
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Research projects
Research within the centre is broad and pluralistic, ranging from the history of political thought to contemporary analytic and continental political philosophy and critical social theory. Members of the CPP also participate in the Research Profile Area on Political Legitimacy. The Centre is the proud…
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About the programme
Classics and Ancient Civilizations covers one year and can be studied in four programmes, one of them is the Assyriology programme. When you choose to study Assyriology, you will both be guided through the broadness of Assyriological sub-disciplines, as well as gradually led to develop your own specific…
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Morocco
This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of the Faculty of Humanities with Université Mohamed VI Polytechnique.
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Borderland Narratives
Cultural Anthropologist Erik de Maaker published, together with Monica Janoswki (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), Stories across Borders: Myths of Origin and Their Contestation in the Borderlands of South and Southeast Asia in Southeast Asian Studies (SEAS).