226 search results for “arabic he literature” in the Library website
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Edwin de VetteFaculty of Humanities
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Renske JanssenFaculty of Humanities
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Yinzhi ZhangFaculty of Humanities
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Louise Glück is awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
The 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to American poet Louise Glück (1942-). This means the Nobel committee passed by authors like Anne Carson, Jamaica Kincaid en Maryse Condé, many of whom were tipped by academics and literary critics as being strong contenders for the prize in 2020.…
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Gabrielle van den BergFaculty of Humanities
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Sara PolakFaculty of Humanities
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Frans Willem KorstenFaculty of Humanities
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National Museum of Taiwan Literature donates to Leiden Chinese Queer Collection
On the occasion of the Workshop organized last July to officially launch the Leiden Chinese Queer Collection (LCQC), the National Museum of Taiwan Literature (NMTL) donated 30 titles of Taiwanese LGBTQ+ literature to support this initiative. These works where published between 1971 and 2022 by authors…
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‘Literature explores all sorts of things that the law is not yet ready for’
As Professor of Literature, Culture and Law, Frans Willem Korsten explores the interplay between literature and law. These are two disciplines that most people wouldn’t immediately connect, but Korsten can see a lot of common ground between them. ‘A fictional story can have a huge impact on law.’
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Noa SchonmannFaculty of Humanities
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Georgios-Evgenios DouliakasFaculty of Humanities
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Jonathan PowellFaculty of Humanities
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Lieke SmitsFaculty of Humanities
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Coen van 't VeerFaculty of Humanities
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah - a reading list
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah. The Swedish Academy praises Gurnah's "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents". The works in the reading…
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Papyrology
Leiden University owns an extensive collection of papyri. The Papyrological Institute is proprietor of most of this collection. A smaller amount of Papyri is part of the ULL collection. Apart from original papyri the Papyrological Institute offers an extensive collection of handbooks and secondary studies…
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Middle Eastern Studies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Middle Eastern Studies
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Islamic World Special Collections
The main focus of the Islamic World Special Collections is on the Middle East and North Africa, with smaller holdings from Indonesia, the Indian Subcontinent and Central Asia as far as Xinjiang, China.
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Carmen van den BerghFaculty of Humanities
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Anne Sytske KeijserFaculty of Humanities
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Rieneke SonneveltFaculty of Humanities
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Karla Paola Cabrera AcuñaFaculty of Humanities
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Searching for items in non-Latin script
Leiden University Libraries hosts materials in hundreds of different languages, including many languages that are written in non-Latin scripts.
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Workshop: Arabic manuscripts and how to read them
Workshop
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Annie Ernaux - a reading list
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to French writer Annie Ernaux (1940). In an explanation, the Swedish Academy praises Ernaux 'for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory'.
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Literature on discrimination and racism from the Leiden University Library collections
After large scale protests in the United States following police violence against black American citizens, racism in the Netherlands, too, is once again being widely debated. This renewed and intensified interest in the problems surrounding racism is prompting many to (re)read important works by black…
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Maurits BergerFaculty of Humanities
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Searching for items in non-Latin script
Leiden University Libraries hosts materials in hundreds of different languages, including many languages that are written in non-Latin scripts. Since 2015, all items are catalogued in the original scripts. Therefore, you may use for instance Arabic, Persian, Russian, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean or Chinese…
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Juynboll Fellowship
The Juynboll Foundation and the Scaliger Institute of Leiden University Libraries have founded a collaborative fellowship program to enable one or two scholars to study the Arabic and Islam special collections of Leiden University Libraries. The allowance is € 1,500 per month.
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Harry StroomerFaculty of Humanities
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Bareez MajidFaculty of Humanities
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Palestine and Israel
This subject guide is a work in progress, aimed to provide access to relevant academic works and online resources on Palestine and Israel, as well as, documentaries, films, and literature to familiarize yourself with the complexities of the conflict.
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
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Middle Eastern Special Collections
The Middle Eastern Special Collections form the nucleus of the entire range of Oriental heritage collections of Leiden University Libraries.
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Yunnan YeFaculty of Humanities
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Remke KrukFaculty of Humanities
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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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Fellowships
The fellowship programs support researchers who are interested in doing research using the special collections.
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Nike van HeldenFaculty of Humanities
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Paula HarveyFaculty of Humanities
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Hebrew, Semitic and Armenian Special Collections
The Library of Leiden University holds c. 550 manuscripts and an extensive collection of rare printed books in Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, the languages of Ethiopia, South Arabic, Coptic and Armenian, as well as a collection of rare books on the Jewish World.
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Middle Eastern Library
The Middle Eastern Library is located on the ground floor of the new Herta Mohr Building at Witte Singel.
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Dimitris Kentrotis ZinelisFaculty of Humanities
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Robin OomkesFaculty of Humanities
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Adam RamadhanFaculty of Humanities
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Khodadad RezakhaniFaculty of Humanities
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Ayub Ayub
Faculty of Humanities
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Katarína MokránováFaculty of Humanities
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Francesca Rosati
Faculty of Humanities