1,065 search results for “middle eastern literary” in the Staff website
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Ugur DerinFaculty of Humanities
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Noa SchonmannFaculty of Humanities
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Eli van DuijnenFaculty of Humanities
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Podcast: an introduction to the Persian Book of Kings
How did the mythical kings of ancient Persia live? In this podcast, we delve into the Shahnameh, also known as the Book of Kings.
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practice-oriented and connected history of Christianities in the medieval Middle East (12th-17th centuries
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Women collecting the Middle East: collaborators and collections
Who assembled the collections of museums? The answer to this question seems to point to men as collectors. Apart from for rare exceptions, female collectors hardly seem to exist. Yet there were indeed women collectors. For the project Museums, Collections and Society, researcher Holly O'Farrell will…
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Pioneer Christiaan Weijts: clandestine novelist in literary circles
In a new series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this first instalment: novelist and columnist Christiaan Weijts (1976). ‘I always felt as though someone would tap me on my shoulder once they’d discovered my clandestine presence.’
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Book: The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East
Five questions for James Shires, assistant professor at ISGA, about his new book, The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East. The book is available to order now.
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Jip BarreveldFaculty of Archaeology
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Petra de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Hans TheunissenFaculty of Humanities
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Una Europa project update: Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa (ELSEA)
In September, the Una Europa ELSEA project, Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa, officially started. Now that the project has been running for a couple of months, it’s high time to check in and see how the project is going.
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Cultural contacts between ‘East’ and ‘West’ in the early Middle Ages
With the help of the JEDI fund, Fatima al Moufridji and Thijs Porck went in search of cultural contacts between early medieval England, Northern Africa, and the Middle East. Together they made four knowledge clips that can now be seen on YouTube.
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Beatrice Gründler: ‘Literary text can help us understand Europe better’
'Consider languages in their shared context.' That is the message of Professor and Arabist Beatrice Gründler, who will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University on 8 February. ‘I would like people to learn that Arabic history has a close connection with Europe.’
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Rachel Beckles Willson appointed professor by special appointment: ‘Music is interwoven with the big questions of our time’
Rachel Beckles Willson started her career as a concert pianist but was later captivated by the Middle Eastern stringed instrument called the oud. On 1 December, she was appointed professor by special appointment of 'Intercultural Performing Arts'.
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Kristin MakszinFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Kyra AlbertsFaculty of Humanities
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Hirad RezaiejooFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Why Humanities? Cristiana Strava on Middle Eastern Studies
Lecture
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Siavash Rafiee RadFaculty of Humanities
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Sai EnglertFaculty of Humanities
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New Cluster Zuid building is taking shape
A lot has happened at Cluster Zuid since the highest point of the building was reached in December. See the photo report below.
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Turaj AtabakiFaculty of Humanities
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Jan Meijer
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Donna de GroeneFaculty of Archaeology
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Mayra NasFaculty of Humanities
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Peter LiebregtsFaculty of Humanities
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Three main results of VVI’s Strengthening Legal Education in Eastern Indonesia (SLEEI)
Although fighting the culture of top-down education and stimulating lecturers’ confidence to adapt courses to local context priorities is no easy job to complete in three years, the “SLEEI inheritance” already has three main components.
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Bram CaersFaculty of Humanities
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Ilios WillemarsFaculty of Humanities
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Paula Esteves dos Santos JordaoFaculty of Humanities
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Oussama Macnack
Faculty of Humanities
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Femke LippokFaculty of Archaeology
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Mark WestmorelandSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Dusan MaczekFaculty of Archaeology
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Mette LangbroekFaculty of Archaeology
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Anouk van Vliet
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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European grant to research Tibetan collection: 'Tibetans' literary output was and is huge'
As a student, university lecturer Berthe Jansen fell under the spell of the Van Manen collection: a collection full of Tibetan writings and objects. A €1.5 million grant now makes it possible to take a really close look at it. 'There is still so much to do and discover.'
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Ruth ClemensFaculty of Humanities
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Workshop Early Photography of the Middle East - In Contact with Collections
Workshop
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Jonah Schulhofer-WohlFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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CSC Scholarship
PhD
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Biology brothers write book about nature and adventure in Eastern Europe: 'I didn't know there live pelicans in Romania'
With a self-converted red camper van, biologists and twin brothers Kevin and Marvin Groen go on a nature adventure in Eastern Europe. Together, they search for wild animals, beautiful nature and places to sport. From a long search for a bear in the Slovakian wilderness to the discovery that pelicans…
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Sara BolghiranFaculty of Humanities
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Eduard PopFaculty of Archaeology
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Cristiana StravaFaculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth MinnaardFaculty of Humanities
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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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Aritri DuttaFaculty of Humanities
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Ivo SmitsFaculty of Humanities