952 search results for “middle eastern literary” in the Staff website
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Lieke SmitsFaculty of Humanities
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Emmanuelle RadarFaculty of Humanities
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Ahmet Serdar GünaydinFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Mohamed MuseFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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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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War in the Middle East: What are the implications?
The US-Israeli strikes on Iran have been welcomed by critics of the regime but have also prompted intense concern. They’ve triggered a dangerous domino effect across the region and beyond. Leiden experts share their insights on the potential consequences.
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Dimiter ToshkovFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Book Talk: Israeli-Turkish Relations at the End of the Cold War: The Geopolitics of Denying the Armenian Genocide
Lecture, Book Talk
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Nike van HeldenFaculty of Humanities
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Chair for Central European Studies at Leiden presents a film at the “Eastern Neighbors” Film Festival in The Hague
On Sunday, November 9 2025, Prof. dr. Sarah Cramsey presented a film at the “Eastern Neighbors” Film Festival in The Hague.
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Hans Oversloot
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Hominin diversity in Eastern Asia
Conference
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Masoud KianiFaculty 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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Gabrielle van den BergFaculty of Humanities
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Political elites and regime change in the Middle East and North Africa: accommodation or exclusion?
Political scientist Kevin Köhler (Leiden University) has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This prestigious grant enables him to set up a research group in the coming five years. Köhler and his team will examine how elite conflict affects processes of regime change…
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Jiyan IlbrinkFaculty of Humanities
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Edwin de VetteFaculty of Humanities
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Nicole van OsFaculty of Humanities
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Judith FrishmanFaculty of Humanities
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Margaretha FolmerFaculty of Humanities
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A semester in Morocco: ‘You see the history that you’re learning about’
The Netherlands Institute in Morocco is open to students from all Dutch universities. Two students explain why they are spending a semester studying in Rabat.
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Antoaneta DimitrovaFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Caught in the middle? Beer and policy in a Leiden neighbourhood
For my Policy in Practice research project, Elise van Dansik engaged with a problem that Leiden ‘Social Domain’ policy officers saw themselves confronted with, which was why migrant organizations of Slaaghwijk (a socio-economically disadvantaged neighborhood in Leiden’s north) do not cooperate with…
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Rites of Passage in Ancient Near Eastern Rituals
Middle East Studies Lecture
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Seda GürkanFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Gerrit DusseldorpFaculty of Archaeology
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Mathijs PetersFaculty of Humanities
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Nisida GjoksiFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Antoaneta Dimitrova, Bernard Steunenberg and Dimiter Toshkov about the political situation in Bulgaria
In the current political situation of Bulgaria, it seems that a long-term caretaker government is the only viable option at the moment. Dimiter Toshkov, Antoaneta Dimitrova and Bernard Steunenberg of FGGA analyse what the Bulgarian caretaker government can learn from its Dutch counterpart.
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
- Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Raafat Shamieh
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Babak Rezaeedaryakenari
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Ōtsuka Kusuoko (1875-1910) in the Meiji Literary Field: Models of Authorship between keishū sakka and the "New Woman"
Lecture
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Petr KopeckyFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Bleda DüringFaculty of Archaeology
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47th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics (#SOEMEHL47)
Conference
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Staging the Heroine
Conference
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Guram Odisharia: Literary responses to the Abkhaz-Georgian conflict
Arts and culture, Q&A
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Jonathan SilkFaculty of Humanities
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Nico KapteinFaculty of Humanities
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Sanjukta PoddarFaculty of Humanities
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Ab de JongFaculty of Humanities
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More than 100 objects described on Things That Talk: ‘It’s super cool to be a part of this’
On Things That Talk, a website founded and developed by Fresco Sam-Sin, students and researchers describe objects from today and from long ago. By now, more than a hundred objects have been covered. Willemijn Waal, Emma Verweij and Frank van den Boom contributed to the content.
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Faculty Office has moved to Herta Mohr Building
As from Wednesday 13 May, the Faculty Office has moved to the Herta Mohr Building.
- Giant Robots, Big Ideas - Exploring the World of Mecha in Japanese Animation
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Giant Robots, Big Ideas - Exploring the World of Mecha in Japanese Animation
From towering mechanical heroes to city-destroying battles, giant robots have become one of the most iconic images in Japanese animation. On 28 April 2026, Leiden University will host "Giant Robots, Big Ideas", an afternoon event exploring how these spectacular machines reflect deeper questions about…
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Holly Riach: ‘Early modern books are less chaotic than previously thought’
In the early modern period, it was perfectly normal to find recipes, legal documents or medical writings in a book of poems. PhD candidate Holly Riach studied the underlying principles of these ‘miscellanies’.