347 search results for “middle eastern literary” in the Library website
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Peter VerstratenFaculty of Humanities
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Luisella CaonFaculty of Humanities
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Carmen van den BerghFaculty of Humanities
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Kitty ZijlmansFaculty of Humanities
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Otto BoeleFaculty of Humanities
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Tingting HuiFaculty of Humanities
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Bram IevenFaculty of Humanities
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Michael NewtonFaculty of Humanities
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Mitchell van VurenFaculty of Humanities
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New Director of Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo wants to increase the institute’s visibility
Egyptologist Marleen De Meyer has been appointed the new Director of the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC). Dr De Meyer has worked for the institute, which promotes Egyptian, Dutch and Flemish collaboration in the field of education and research, since 2016.
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Manuscript Facsimiles Collection
The Special Collections Reading Room houses a collection of 800+ facsimiles of Western manuscripts originating mostly from Medieval Europe. They enable students to consult a 3D version very close to the original manuscripts kept worldwide, especially those with contents or from cultural traditions that…
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Medieval Manuscripts
With its more than 1400 bindings and over a thousand fragments Leiden’s collection of medieval manuscripts (up to ca. 1550) is the largest in the Netherlands.
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Miriam MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Ilan PeledFaculty of Humanities
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Abhimanyu ChettriFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Ben HaringFaculty of Humanities
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French Language and Culture
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in French language and culture.
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Experience the Japan collections
Old maps, beautifully coloured drawings, early photographs, rare books, and even a genuine love letter. Leiden University Libraries (UBL) holds an important and diverse Japan collection. From January through December 2026, we will organize various public activities around the Japan collections.
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Searching scholarly information
Searching for relevant scholarly information can be a challenge. These tutorials can help you navigating the catalogue and other databases.
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Poetry’s Haunting: A Symposium on C.P. Cavafy
The Greek diasporic queer poet Constantine P. Cavafy (1863-1933) has been recognized as a central figure in world literature and literary modernism. On December 9th, a symposium around his work will take place at Leiden University Libraries. This will be combined with the launch of Maria Boletsi's book…
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Joanita VroomFaculty of Archaeology
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Law
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for Law
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Mink van IJzendoornFaculty of Archaeology
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Amadou AdamouFaculty of Humanities
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Rik LettanyFaculty of Archaeology
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Marike van AerdeFaculty of Archaeology
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Carol van Driel-MurrayFaculty of Archaeology
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Marcel IJsselstijnFaculty of Archaeology
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Simon van der StratenFaculty of Archaeology
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UNESCO Recognizes Manuscripts First Voyage Around the Globe and Hikayat Aceh as World Heritage
UNESCO has recognized an international set of fifteen manuscripts about Ferdinand Magellan's first circumnavigation of the globe and the three Hikayat Aceh manuscripts as World Heritage. The manuscripts are inscribed in the global UNESCO Memory of the World Register. This list contains documentary heritage…
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Alisa van de HaarFaculty of Humanities
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Annelies Schulte NordholtFaculty of Humanities
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Evert Jan van LeeuwenFaculty of Humanities
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Johannes MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Esther Op de BeekFaculty of Humanities
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The importance of preserving documentary heritage: UNESCO Memory of the World register
One of the main functions of a University Library is the preservation of documentary heritage. Not just to facilitate research and education, but also because this heritage in many ways represents our collective memory. UNESCO has been registering special and often threatened documents in the international…
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Caribbean Studies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Caribbean Studies
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Chinese unofficial poetry journals now accessible in Digital Collections
Leiden University Libraries has made a large number of unofficial poetry journals from China accessible online in its Digital Collections. This opens up thousands of pages from an internationally unique collection of unofficial Chinese poetry for teaching, research, and the general public, including…
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Medieval manuscripts made available in Europeana
Over 600 manuscripts and early prints have been made digitally available by Leiden University Libraries (UBL) via the Europeana platform. In the project 'The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages’ (ARMA), seven European heritage institutions added 30,000 digitised medieval items to Europeana’s database…
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Olaf KaperFaculty of Humanities
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Jacqueline VelFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Anna NotsuFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Liesbeth ClaesFaculty of Humanities
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Matthew FrearFaculty of Humanities
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Joanne StolkFaculty of Humanities
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Copyright basics
Explanation and background of Dutch copyright
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Italian Language and Culture
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Italian Language and Culture
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Accessing Special Collections
The Special Collections of Leiden University Libraries contain a world-renowned and vast collection of old prints, manuscripts, archives, prints, drawings and photography. Our collections are accessible to Leiden researchers and students, as well as external researchers and other interested parties.
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The Pen and the Sword: A reading list about writer's quarrels
Writers are not just storytellers: with their novels, tales and critiques they broaden the social imagination, reflect on societal developments and sometimes put new themes on the map. This can easily lead to a conflict because writers and literati often think very differently about issues such as…
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Leiden University Libraries elected to the Executive Committee of the IIIF Consortium
Leiden University Libraries has been elected to the Executive Committee of the IIIF Consortium. The term of office is two years starting from January 2022.