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1,978 search results for “arabic language and cultural” in the Public website

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  Manfred Horstmanshoff Professor Emeritus History of medicine

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Victoria Nyst Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Esther Op de Beek University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• PhD Candidate in Arabic Studies Vacancy

  Humanities, Institute for Area Studies

• Arabic & Islamic Studies Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo

  Research projects which are assisted by the NVIC in the field of Arabic studies.

• The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society

  Did you know that Arabic was for centuries the lingua franca in an area stretching from the south of Spain to the Chinese border? And that the Middle East under Muslim rule was the world’s beating heart of trade, but also of science and scholarship?

• On the representation of quantity: how our brains shape language Research project

  This project investigates properties of quantity expressions across languages from the perspective of how quantity is represented in the human brain.

• What is shared and what is unique in language and music Research project

  Knowledge and culture subproject 1:

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  Johannes Müller University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• In Search of the Truth: A Sufi Reading of Modern Palestinian Literature, 1950-2010 Research project

  This research aims to address the connection between Sufism and modern Arabic Literature (specifically, Palestinian literature).

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  Keiko Yoshioka Lecturer and Head of the Japanese language programme.

  Faculty of Humanities

• Material Continuities, Renewals and Cultural Transformation Research project

  This subproject, carried out by post-doctoral researcher Dr. O. Nieuwenhuyse, investigates changes and continuities in the functional, social and symbolic uses of the material culture, c. 6800-5800 BC. A contextually oriented approach is adopted, which pays attention to the local socio-economic and…

• Greek criticism and Latin literature. Classicism and cultural interaction in the late republican and early imperial Rome Research project

  This project examines the intriguing relationship between Greek literary criticism and Latin literature in Rome (first centuries BC and AD).

• The Silk Road Language Web Research project

  A linguistic prehistory of the Tarim Basin in Northwest China

• Arabic 1+2 Intensive Summer Course Course
• History, Arts and Culture of Asia (MA) (60EC)

  The MA in History, Arts and Culture of Asia is designed for students interested in taking a humanities-related approach to the study of countries or regions in pre-modern, modern or contemporary Asia.

• Lazy Mindreader: a new perspective on “mindreading” from the study of language and narrative Research project

  How is social cognition shaped by our knowledge of language and stories?

• Arts and Culture: Art History and Museum Studies Arts and Culture (MA)

  Are you thinking about studying Arts and Culture: Art History and Museum Studies? Learn more and watch the introduction video.

• Online Course Cosmopolitain Medieval Arabic World

  In this course, we will focus on the fascinating history of the Arabic Medieval World. We will take you on a journey through the Middle Ages. All along, we will present you with historiographical debates and dilemmas and travel back and forth in time explaining to you how events of the past affected…

• Postdoctoral researcher in Arabic Studies and epigraphy Vacancy

  Humanities, Institute for Area Studies

• PhD Candidate in Arabic Studies and archaeology Vacancy

  Humanities, Institute for Area Studies

• (Re)Imagining Port Cities: Understanding Space, Society and Culture

  Port cities develop at the intersection of international trade and commerce and at the interface between sea and land. What does the future of port cities look like with urbanization, sea level rise, new migrant flows and the disappearance of old industries? This is addressed in the minor (Re)Imagining…

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  Rolf Bremmer Professor emeritus Old and Middle English Language, Literature and Culture

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Colin Ewen Professor emeritus of English Linguistics and Phonology

  Faculty of Humanities

• Languages as Lifelines: The Multilingual Coping Strategies of Refugees from the Early Modern Low Countries Research project

  From ca. 1540 to 1600, thousands fled the war-stricken Southern Low Countries to the British Isles, Germany, and the Northern Low Countries. Research on this displacement crisis, central to the formation of the Netherlands and Belgium, reflects 21st-century debates on migration and language: language…

• Valuing Landscape in Classical Antiquity. Natural Environment and Cultural Imagination Research output

  Different ways in which physical environments impacted on the cultural imagination of Greco-Roman antiquity.

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  Claudio Di Felice University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Opening of the Albabtain Leiden University Centre for Arabic Culture News - 15 August 2018

  With the launch of the Albabtain Leiden University Centre for Arabic Culture, Leiden University and the AbdulAziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation will join hands in promoting the understanding of Arabic culture. Have a look at the centre's plans for the years ahead.

• Teaching Art History and Cultural and Art Education (MA)

• Species Literacy: The perception and cultural portrayal of animals Research output

  In his dissertation Michiel Hooykaas outlines the results of six empirical research projects focused at biodiversity awareness in the Netherlands, specifically people’s knowledge about animals.

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  Carmen van den Bergh University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• The Arab Thieves: al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Research output

  Vol. V, Sections 1-2

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  Joan Booth Professor emeritus Latin language and literature

  Faculty of Humanities

• The phonological systems of the Mbam languages of Cameroon with a focus on vowels and vowel harmony Research output

  The languages of the Mbam-et-Inoubou District of the Centre Region of Cameroon have a unique position in Bantu linguistics. Being in between

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  Judith Bosnak Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Olf Praamstra Professor emeritus by special appointment of Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Geert Warnar Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Haneen Omari University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Thijs Porck Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Classics (800 BCE−600 CE) Research project

  This research cluster aims to analyse and interpret the formation and transmission of Graeco-Roman culture by exploring the relationships between cultural products (texts, objects, practices) and their societal and historical contexts.

• Special Issue: Missions, Powers and Arabization in Social Sciences and Missions Research output

  This is a Special Issue of the peer-reviewed journal 'Social Sciences and Missions', which provides a forum for exploration of the social and political influence of Christian missions worldwide.

• A grammar of Makalero: A Papuan language of East Timor Research output

  This dissertation is the first comprehensive description of Makalero, a language spoken by approximately 6,500 speakers in the Iliomar subdistrict, in the south-east of the Republic of East Timor. While previous sources considered it to be a dialect of the larger language Makasae, the present study,…

• Word processing in languages using non-alphabetic scripts: The cases of Japanese and Chinese Research output

  This thesis investigates the processing of words written in Japanese kanji and Chinese hànzì, i.e. logographic scripts.

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  Fokelien Kootstra Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Dick Smakman University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Turks, texts and territory: Imperial ideology and cultural production in Central Eurasia Research project

  Turkic nomadic rulers established large empires in the Middle East and Asia between the 11th and 14th centuries. This project will explore the link between their political ideology and the production of art and literature, via the cultural heritage of five cities along the Silk Road: Kashgar, Samarkand,…

• The Long Arab Conquest of Central Asia: Urban Change in Merv, Paikent, Balkh and Samarkand (651-821) Research project

  This PhD research aims to trace the impact of the Arab conquest, both immediate and long-term, on the material and social organization of Central Asia from 651 to 821 through an “urban change” perspective in four cities: Merv, Paikent, Balkh and Samarkand.

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  Alisa van de Haar University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Disclosing Arabic Papyri from the Leiden University Library Research project

  Leiden University is famous for its library’s large collection of Oriental manuscripts. Part of this collection is a group of 104 Arabic documents written on papyrus and paper (Or. 8264 and 12885). These documents date from the 7th through 10th century CE and cover a wide range of subjects (private…