435 search results for “middle east and north africa” in the Staff website
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Honorary doctorate for Graça Machel: fund for female students from South Africa
On the occasion of the conferral of an honorary doctorate to children’s rights activist Graça Machel, a fund has been established that will enable two female students from South Africa to come and study in Leiden.
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Hoekstra’s investment in safari enterprise that escaped taxation in Africa
The Pandora Papers turned the spotlight on Wopke Hoekstra’s investment in an African safari company via a tax haven. Apparently, there was no tax evasion, but that does not seem to be the whole story. Martijn Nouwen, assistant professor in tax law, explains in Follow the Money how the safari enterprise…
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‘Young people are cannon fodder in the Central African Republic’
A bloody civil war has raged for years in the Central African Republic. PhD candidate Crépin Mouguia points out a tragic pattern: young people have been recruited as fighters or soldiers for generations and thus fuel the conflicts.
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Joe Powderly co-edits volume, Heritage Destruction, Human Rights and International Law
The volume, Heritage Destruction, Human Rights and International Law, co-edited by Grotius Centre, Associate Professor Joe Powderly, and Dr Amy Strecker (Associate Professor, UCD), has been published by Brill/Nijhoff.
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Anoma van der Veere
Faculty of Humanities
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Oriental dance beginners
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Space for academic debate: discussing academic boycotts and ethics committees
Lecture
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Remco Breuker
Faculty of Humanities
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Letty ten Harkel
Faculteit Archeologie
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Marina Calculli
Faculty of Humanities
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Eduard Pop
Faculteit Archeologie
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Mette Langbroek
Faculteit Archeologie
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Dusan Maczek
Faculteit Archeologie
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Petra Sijpesteijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Jelle Bruning
Faculty of Humanities
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Jiyan Qiao
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter Webb
Faculty of Humanities
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Leah Powell
Faculteit Archeologie
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Sabrina Autenrieth
Faculteit Archeologie
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Diederik Pomstra
Faculteit Archeologie
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Luc Amkreutz
Faculteit Archeologie
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Jay Huang
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Judith Bosnak
Faculty of Humanities
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Felicia Rosu
Faculty of Humanities
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Tijm Lanjouw
Faculteit Archeologie
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Paul Kessler
Science
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Maria Hadjigavriel
Faculteit Archeologie
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Valentina Azzarà
Faculteit Archeologie
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Kiri Paramore
Faculty of Humanities
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Roberto Arciero
Faculteit Archeologie
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Ebbe Rogge
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Sam Botan
Faculteit Archeologie
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Jonathan London
Faculty of Humanities
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Ying Zhang
Faculty of Humanities
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Dutch East Indies tax system was supposed to elevate the colony, but turned out to be token politics
In the late 19th century, the Dutch government introduced a tax system in the Dutch East Indies, with the intention of transforming the colony into a modern state. PhD student Maarten Manse wrote his thesis on this development and discovered how grandiloquent colonial ideals became bogged down in daily…
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Mehdy Shaddel Basir
Faculty of Humanities
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Christian Henderson
Faculty of Humanities
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Ayokunu Adedokun
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Miriam Waltz
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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M. Y. Priscilla Lam
Faculty of Humanities
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Erik Bähre
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Maarten Kossmann
Faculty of Humanities
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Metje Postma
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ton Dietz
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Marja Spierenburg
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Rishuai Chen
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Peter Pels
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Vineet Thakur
Faculty of Humanities
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Alette Vonk
Faculty of Humanities
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Sabine Luning
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen