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The Internet Archive takes over foreign dissertations from UBL 08 October 2024Last month, the UBL announced that it will deselect an extensive collection of foreign dissertations. We are happy to report now that The Internet Arc...
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Leiden University & Elsevier Symposium on AI and Academic Publishing 27 September 2024Artificial Intelligence is likely to have far-reaching consequences for all actors in the realm of academic publishing, including authors, editors, re...
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Scores of visitors attend open evening at new Middle Eastern Library 26 September 2024Over 200 people paid their first visit to the new Middle Eastern Library on a special open evening. As well as exploring the library, they got to see ...
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Discover 450 years of parades at Museum De Lakenhal 20 September 2024The exhibition ‘Leiden celebrates – 450 years of parades’ at Museum De Lakenhal shows how parades and society have changed through the centuries. Alum...
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Podcast: this is how you create a dictionary for an unknown Middle Eastern language 17 September 2024Leiden scholars succeeded in making Arabic accessible to Western academic communities as early as the sixteenth century. But how did they approach thi...
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Disposal collection dissertations from foreign universities (post 1850) 16 September 2024In September 2024, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) will dispose of a collection of dissertations from foreign universities published after 1850. Thi...
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Evening of the Middle Eastern Collections & Middle Eastern Library 12 September 2024Explore the new Middle Eastern Library, Listen to speed lectures by experts, watch a brand new documentary about the restoration of an 11th-century me...
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Modern Literature from the Middle East - The Reading List 02 September 2024The Middle East has a rich literary tradition, which is steadily gaining a foothold in the West. Modern literary works deal with contemporary issues, ...
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Announcement of Scaliger Institute Research Fellowship Winners 27 June 2024With support of several publishers and private foundations, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) and the Scaliger Institute welcome around 15 to 20 Fello...
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Exhibition Early Photography of the Middle East 26 June 2024From Persia and Arabia to North Africa: as early as the nineteenth century, there were Dutch people who used the camera themselves in various regions ...
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Important collection of topographical images of the Netherlands available in Digital Collections 18 June 2024Castles, monasteries and bridges, but also city profiles, history prints and water management works. Leiden University Libraries (UBL) manages one of ...
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Podcast: The Tragic Fate of Egyptologist Herta Mohr 04 June 2024Leiden University recently named a new building for Egyptologist Herta Mohr. But who was she?
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Stereotypes and Misconceptions about the Middle East - The Reading List 31 May 2024The 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...
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Exhibition - Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: Shadowy art from Leiden University Libraries 28 May 2024Ominous witches, gruesome monsters, and hideous freaks: from Saturday 15 June, Kunsthal Rotterdam will be putting the spotlight on the shady depths of...
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Unique manuscript map of Suriname now available in Digital Collections 28 May 2024The map of Suriname, drawn in 1830 and acquired by Leiden University Libraries (UBL) in 2023, has now been made available online via Digital Collectio...