22 search results for “middle east” in the Student website
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Zahra AzharFaculty of Humanities
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Lidewij van de PeutFaculty of Humanities
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mat ImmerzeelFaculty of Humanities
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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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Deniz TatFaculty of Humanities
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Onur AdaFaculty of Humanities
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Omer KocyigitFaculty of Humanities
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Ugur DerinFaculty of Humanities
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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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Erik-jan ZurcherFaculty of Humanities
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Hirad RezaiejooFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Petra de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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May TamimováFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Scores of visitors attend open evening at new Middle Eastern Library
Over 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 exhibitions, speed lectures and premieres about Leiden University’s Middle Eastern collections.
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Jonah Schulhofer-WohlFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Hans TheunissenFaculty of Humanities
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Ahmet Serdar GünaydinFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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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…
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Researchers from Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.
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Noa SchonmannFaculty of Humanities
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Vanessa NewbyFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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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.