611 search results for “middle east and north africa” in the Staff website
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Victor Klinkenberg
Faculteit Archeologie
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Bleda Düring
Faculteit Archeologie
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Vincent Chang
Faculty of Humanities
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Athina Boleti
Faculteit Archeologie
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Erik Odegard
Faculty of Humanities
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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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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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Se Young Jang
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Richard Jansen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Nathalie Brusgaard
Faculteit Archeologie
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Harry Fokkens
Faculteit Archeologie
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Quentin Bourgeois
Faculteit Archeologie
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Erik Kroon
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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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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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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Mandela Scholarship Fund
Bachelor, Master
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ASCL Seminar: Animals in Africa - Human-animal relationships through the lenses of decoloniality and ubuntu
Lecture
- 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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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.
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Marginalities: Dispossessed Peasantry and Migrant Labour Communities in Urban North India
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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Cultural Heritage Scholarship
Master
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Harmful Tax Competition in the East African Community
PhD defence
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NIAS grant for Robert Stein: Where do receipts come from?
Nowadays they can cause the fall of ministers, but once upon a time receipts were a new phenomenon. Associate Professor Robert Stein is to receive a grant from NIAS to map their origins.
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Sense Embodied: Cloves and Olfactory Transitions in Middle Period China
Lecture
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The First Great War of the Middle Ages: Sasanians, Byzantines, and the Rise of Islam, 602-642
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Honorary doctorate for child rights activist Graça Machel
Mozambican politician and child rights activist Graça Machel will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University for her commitment to the rights of women and children in Africa and elsewhere. She will be awarded the honorary doctorate on the Dies Natalis, the University’s foundation day, on 8…
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Three new Leiden bloggers for Faces of Science
What is life like as an academic? Twelve PhD candidates will report on their daily work in videos and blogs on the Faces of Science website (in Dutch). They include three researchers from Leiden who are researching topics such as North Korean support for African liberation movements, how differently…
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General Labour History of Africa Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Intergenerational Justice and Human Rights in a time of Planetary Crises in Africa
Conference
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Seven projects receive funding from JEDI Fund
More focus on diversity in Antiquity, workshops for students with disabilities, and a card game to share stories about diversity: these and other projects will receive funding from the JEDI Fund in 2023.
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Ann Brysbaert
Faculteit Archeologie
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Katarzyna Cwiertka
Faculty of Humanities