1,573 search results for “cultures of the middle east” in the Staff website
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Thato Magano
Faculty of Humanities
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Chi Zhang
Faculteit Archeologie
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Ellen Raven
Faculty of Humanities
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Manfred Horstmanshoff
Faculty of Humanities
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Nadine Akkerman
Faculty of Humanities
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Cyra Akila Choudhury
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jip Barreveld
Faculteit Archeologie
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Cultural genocide: 'I see no scenario in which Uyghur culture can revive in Xinjiang'
Within just a few years, the Chinese government's policy towards the Uyghurs deteriorated sharply. From control and marginalisation, it shifted to violation of human rights. PhD candidate Elke Spiessens was right in the middle of it with her research. 'The fabric of the community is being completely…
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Svetlana Kharchenkova
Faculty of Humanities
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Chris Flinterman
Faculty of Humanities
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Ilios Willemars
Faculty of Humanities
- Script: creating a three column script
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Tristan Mostert
Faculty of Humanities
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Philip Post
Faculty of Humanities
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Class Conflict and the State of Permanent Crisis in the Post-2011 Middle East
Conference, Roundtable
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Workshop: Arabic manuscripts and how to read them
Workshop
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A semester in Morocco: ‘You see the history that you’re learning about’
The Netherlands Institute in Morocco is open to students from all Dutch universities. Two students explain why they are spending a semester studying in Rabat.
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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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Elmer Veldkamp
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan Abbink
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Stone Age Chronicles: The Middle to Later Stone Age Transition in Southern Africa
Conference
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Audiovisual research provides new insights into how migrants navigate major life events
NWO-funded audiovisual research into the experiences of migrants during major life events has culminated in new insights that can further our understanding of complex migration dynamics. The completion of this five-year project was marked with a roundtable event including international guests.
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Book Landscapes of Survival sheds new light on the habitation of the Jordan deserts
December 2020 saw the crowning publication of the Landscapes of Survival project by Professor Peter Akkermans. Its main topic is human habitation in marginal environments like the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula. ‘The people living here built their own society, and they would not have viewed it as…
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Summer filled with conferences in Leiden
It will be a summer filled with conferences at the Faculty of Humanities in Leiden. In the coming months, there will be something for everyone at the university, especially in the field of languages and cultures of Africa and the Middle East.
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Letty ten Harkel: ‘I am interested in what happens when different cultures come together’
In August 2022 we welcome our new colleague Dr Letty ten Harkel as Assistant Professor in Roman and Post-Roman Archaeology. For the past ten years she has built up an impressive track record in the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Read the interview about her background and research…
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Meet Dr. Lital Abazon LJSA Member
Prior to arriving to Leiden, Dr. Abazon completed her Ph.D. at Yale University's Department of Comparative Literature, where she also taught courses ranging from Introduction to Zionism to World Cinema.
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Beaver exploitation testifies to prey choice diversity of Middle Pleistocene hominins
Exploitation of smaller game is rarely documented before the latest phases of the Pleistocene, which is often taken to imply narrow diets for earlier hominins. In a study now published in Scientific Reports, a team of German and Dutch archaeologists present new data that contradict this view of Lower…
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Willem Einthoven
Kolffpad 1, Leiden
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Sigrid van Roode: ‘Zār jewellery reveals the world of unseen Egyptians’
Zār jewellery from Egypt can be found in many museums and private collections in the West, but for a long time very little was known about it, except that it was used in rituals to protect against spirit possession. PhD candidate Sigrid van Roode has explored its history and discovered that the jewellery…
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Lennart Kruijer wins Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Prize with thesis on ancient Commagene
The prestigious Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Prize is annually awarded to the five best dissertations published in the year before in the fields of Humanities, Social sciences and Law. During a festive ceremony in Utrecht Lennart Kruijer received the award from the hands of professor Bas ter Haar…
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Peter Meel
Faculty of Humanities
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024
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Maartje Janse
Faculty of Humanities
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Five Comenius Teaching grants for Leiden lecturers
Three lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded a €100,000 Comenius Teaching grant within the Senior Fellows programme. A further two lecturers have been awarded a €50,000 grant within the Teaching Fellows programme. The grants will enable the lecturers and their project teams to realise an…
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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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DUSANE: Dutch Symposium of the Ancient Near East 2023
Symposium
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Zane Kripe
Science
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Robert Ross
Faculty of Humanities
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Fitri Murfianti
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Joan Booth
Faculty of Humanities
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Simay Cetin
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Verena Ly
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Surya Suryadi
Faculty of Humanities
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Rick Honings
Faculty of Humanities
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Geke Burger
Faculty of Humanities
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Katarzyna Cwiertka
Faculty of Humanities
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Call for Papers: Oriental Numismatic Society Youth Conference
Education, Research
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The history of the Perzian Book of Kings
Lecture, Studium Generale
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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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