560 search results for “middle eastern library” in the Staff website
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Opening of the Herta Mohr Building: brand new and also recycled location for Humanities
Light, open and green: a description that fits the new, renovated location of the Faculty of Humanities. The official opening of the Herta Mohr Building took place on 8 October, and it has many remarkable features: for example, recycled ‘mushroom columns’, a pedestrian bridge to the University Library…
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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dogs helped their blind owners as far back as the Middle Ages. Milne now has received an NWO XS grant to…
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Professor by special appointment Mariken Teeuwen: ‘There are so many new possibilities in research on medieval manuscripts’
Mariken Teeuwen started at the Institute for History as a professor by special appointment of Script Culture of the Middle Ages on 1 March. ‘I’m looking forward to doing research together with students.’
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
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NIAS grant for Robert Stein: Where do receipts come from?
Nowadays they can cause the fall of ministers, but once upon a time receipts were a new phenomenon. Associate Professor Robert Stein is to receive a grant from NIAS to map their origins.
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Marie SoressiFaculty of Archaeology
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Historiography and Palaeography of Sasanian Middle Persian Inscriptions
PhD defence
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Introducing 'Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: History Doesn't Travel in One Direction' (Purdue Univ. Press, 2024)
Lecture, Austria Centre Leiden Lunch Talk
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Prof. Koen Ottenheyn (Utrecht) delivers Austrian Fund lunch talk on Roman remnants in modern central Europe
On Tuesday, December 9 2025, Prof. Koen Ottenheyn delivered the last Austria Centre lunch talk of 2025. Prof. Ottenheyn serves as a professor of architectural history at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and is a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and the Academic Curatorium which advises…
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David Pieter SchaperFaculty of Archaeology
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These students studied Byzantine Rome... in Rome: ‘It was an immersive experience’
Professor Joanita Vroom, together with the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) offered the course Byzantine Rome in September 2023. The course, co-taught by Vroom, Letty ten Harkel and various guest lecturers, investigated the transition of the city of Rome from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages,…
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The First Great War of the Middle Ages: Sasanians, Byzantines, and the Rise of Islam, 602-642
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Getting on Famously: The Netherlands and the Shah of Iran
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Sigrid van Roode: ‘Zār jewellery reveals the world of unseen Egyptians’
Zār jewellery from Egypt can be found in many museums and private collections in the West, but for a long time very little was known about it, except that it was used in rituals to protect against spirit possession. PhD candidate Sigrid van Roode has explored its history and discovered that the jewellery…
- Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (SOEMEHL)
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NWO grant for research on Aramaic inscriptions: 'Palmyra is more than blown-up tombs'
Two thousand years ago, the Middle East found itself caught between the rise of the Roman Empire in the west and the Parthian Empire in the east. PhD candidate Nolke Tasma has been awarded an NWO grant to investigate how local inhabitants experienced these changes.
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Palestinian-Israeli Coexistence in the Middle East
Debate
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and human as local environmental agents in the Dagor community of Eastern Bhutan
Lecture, Asia Research Cluster
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47th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics (#SOEMEHL47)
Conference
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7th NINO Annual Meeting 2026
Annual Meeting
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Burcu Yildirim
Faculty of Archaeology
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Vici for Petra Sijpesteijn: 'Islamic Empire rapidly became unified'
After the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the Islamic Empire expanded at a tremendous pace. Within a hundred years, it stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian subcontinent. How did such a rapidly conquered territory become one empire? Professor Petra Sijpesteijn has been awarded a Vici grant…
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Arnoud VrolijkLeiden University Library
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Martijn StormsLeiden University Library
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2024
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EAMENA (Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa): One database to rule them all?
Lecture
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Stone Age Chronicles: The Middle to Later Stone Age Transition in Southern Africa
Conference
- Workshop: Wisdom literature in the Islamicate Middle Ages
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45th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (#SOEMEHL45)
Conference
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Jonathan SilkFaculty of Humanities
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Masoud KianiFaculty of Humanities
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Elena PaskalevaFaculty of Humanities
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46th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics (#SOEMEHL46)
Conference
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The Transformation of Science Systems in the Middle East and North Africa
PhD defence
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024
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Antoinette HuijbersFaculty of Archaeology
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Nina JaspersFaculty of Archaeology
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Yunnan Ye
Faculty of Humanities
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2025
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Sensing Darjeeling: Experiential Ethnographies Across Time
Workshop
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023
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Using a camera to look into a book's spine: ‘You might just find that one rare text’
What do you do if you have a book from the sixteenth or seventeenth century, but you suspect that the binding contains a fragment of a medieval manuscript? University lecturer Thijs Porck has received an NWO grant to experiment with a camera attached to a tube. 'The project boils down to keyhole surgeries…
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‘Eldest sons held the power in ancient Egypt’
For decades it was thought that the family system of the ancient Egyptians was very similar to our own. However, PhD candidate Steffie van Gompel explains that the reality is somewhat different. ‘In Egyptian families, it was often the eldest son versus the rest of the children.’
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Devotion & Immersive Play - The Use of 'Spiritual Toys' in the Late Middle Ages
Lecture
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2023
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Angelique Heijstek-HofmanFaculty of Humanities
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Amit KurienSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Swargajyoti GohainSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Irene O'DalyFaculty of Humanities
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Daphne WoutsLeiden University Library