255 search results for “early middle area” in the Library website
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Thijs Porck
Faculty of Humanities
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Discover Leiden University's new Middle Eastern Library and take a closer look at our Middle Eastern collections
An evening program in the University Library and Middle Eastern Library in Leiden for everyone who has something to do with the Middle East; from Tajikistan to the Mahreb and from Istanbul to Sanaa. View the oldest books and clay tablets from the collection and listen to the most fascinating stories…
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Stereotypes and Misconceptions about the Middle East - The Reading List
The perception of the Middle East is riddled with stereotypes that have had dire consequences on its people. What is myth and what is reality? How did these stereotypes come about? What consequences have they had? All of these questions and more are answered within this reading list.
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Raymond Fagel
Faculty of Humanities
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Construction of Middle Eastern Library in Final Phase
Library
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African Library and Middle Eastern Library access via University Library
Library
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Tiffany Bousard
Faculty of Humanities
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Stijn Bussels
Faculty of Humanities
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Michael Herzfeld
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Cisca Hoogendijk
Faculty of Humanities
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Bastian Still
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Henk Schulte Nordholt
Faculty of Humanities
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Irene Hadiprayitno
Faculty of Humanities
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Digitised Leiden Middle Eastern collections available in Digital Collections
More than 2000 objects from the Middle Eastern collection at Leiden University Libraries (UBL) have been made available online through Digital Collections. These collections mostly consist of written works in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac, but also contain printed works and the…
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Modern Literature from the Middle East - The Reading List
The Middle East has a rich literary tradition, which is steadily gaining a foothold in the West. Modern literary works deal with contemporary issues, such as the legacy of colonialism, the struggles between traditionalism and modernity, the place of women in society and the war in Israel/Palestine.
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Turaj Atabaki
Faculty of Humanities
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May Tamimová
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Jesse Sarneel
Faculty of Humanities
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Gerrit van Uitert
Faculty of Humanities
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Andrew Sorensen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Maria Pereira Bastiao
Faculty of Humanities
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Ekaterina (Kate) Pukhovaia
Faculty of Humanities
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Marika Keblusek
Faculty of Humanities
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Wei Chu
Faculteit Archeologie
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Marie Soressi
Faculteit Archeologie
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Donation of early twentieth-century glass negatives and prints from the Arabian Peninsula
On Thursday 11 November, Jan Jaap Hooft and Marjon Hooft donated a special collection of glass negatives and photographic prints from the Arabian Peninsula to Leiden University Libraries (UBL). The collection is part of the estate of their grandfather Jan Albert Hooft (1883-1972). Hooft held a position…
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Uncatalogued materials from the Middle East now available through Leiden University Libraries’ catalogue
A collection of uncatalogued books from the Middle East is now available through the Leiden University Libraries’ (UBL) catalogue. The collection contains over 12,000 books mainly written in Arabic, but also in multiple other languages from the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, including Persian,…
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New phase for Middle Eastern Library: key handover to Herta Mohr building
Library
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Earliest Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections in Leiden Now Available in Open Access
Several of the most important manuscript collections in the Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Special Collections, comprising 443 extremely rare and often unique volumes, have been made available in Open Access via Digital Collections. The available manuscript collections include the private collections…
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New English translation of Huizinga’s Autumntide of the Middle Ages (Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen)
Leiden University Press presents a new now unabridged, richly illustrated edition of Huizinga's famous study of forms of life and thought of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in France and the Low Countries.
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Lecture series Treasures from the Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections and their Wealth of Knowledge
Persian stories with beautiful miniatures, letters on papyrus from Egyptian traders and medicinal manuscripts translated from Greek and edited in Arabic. Studium Generale organizes a lecture series on the world-famous manuscripts from the Middle East collection of Leiden University Libraries (UBL).…
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Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Judith Pollmann
Faculty of Humanities
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Rieneke Sonnevelt
Faculty of Humanities
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Marijke Klokke
Faculty of Humanities
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Rizal Shidiq
Faculty of Humanities
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Caroline Waerzeggers
Faculty of Humanities
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Ben Arps
Faculty of Humanities
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Peace in the Middle East? Students seek solutions in Peace Academy
Finding solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the not-inconsiderable task of the new Peace Academy in The Hague. Professor Maurits Berger and twelve students from different conflict zones are starting a creative thinking process that aims to discover the basic conditions for peace in the…
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Shekhar Kolipaka
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Gabe van Beijeren Bergen en Henegouwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Acquisition: early topographic manuscript map of southeast Sumatra
Thanks to the financial support of our friends foundation (Stichting Vrienden van de Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden) Leiden University Libraries was able to purchase a very early topographic map of southeast Sumatra.
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Ahmet Serdar Günaydin
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Marina Calculli
Faculty of Humanities
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Mark Westmoreland
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Igor Boog
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Maaike Warnaar
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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Mohamed Muse
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs