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1,364 search results for “history of the middle east” in the Student website

• Programme Italian Literature and Culture (MA)

  When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.

• The First Great War of the Middle Ages: Sasanians, Byzantines, and the Rise of Islam, 602-642 Event - 7 March 2024

  Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series

• The Washington Post review of Eric Storm’s Nationalism: ‘Grand scale history’ News - 18 November 2024

  The Washington Post reviews Nationalism by university lecturer Eric Storm. In this book, Storm explores how nation-states became the dominant political organizational form.

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  Mark Rutgers Professor Social Philosophy

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.r.rutgers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1628

• Willem van der Does sheds new light on the at times pitch-black history of psychiatry News - 4 May 2023

  Piercing through the skull with an ice pick, administering electric shocks without an anaesthetic, or applying leeches to the uterus: these may seem like medieval methods of torture, but they are in fact therapies used in medicine. Willem van der Does writes about all of them in his new book. ‘Physicians…

• Programme French Literature and Culture (MA)

  When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.

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  Eefke de Haan Dual PhD candidate/guest

  Faculty Governance and Global Affairs

  e.j.de.haan@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9589

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  Giliam de Valk Assistant Professor

  Faculty Governance and Global Affairs

  g.g.de.valk@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9028

• New professor of Medieval History Philippe Buc: 'I am just like a shepherd' News - 13 August 2021

  A shepherd, but also a comparativist and historian with very broad interests. That is how Professor Philippe Buc describes himself. As of 1 August 2021, he will hold the chair of professor of Medieval History at the university. In an introductory interview, Buc introduces himself, his research and his…

• Leiden Papyri and the Economic History of the Early Medieval Islamic World Event - 16 April 2024

  Lecture, Studium Generale

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  Vincent Chang Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  v.k.chang@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2151

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  Arthur Crucq University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.k.c.crucq@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6275

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  Jan van Dijkhuizen Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.f.van.dijkhuizen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2147

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  Cyra Akila Choudhury External PhD candidate

  Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid

  c.choudhury@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278838

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  Jan Sleutels Senior University Lecturer Philosophy of Mind and Media Philosophy

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.j.m.sleutels@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2007

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  Adam Fairclough Professor emeritus of American History

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.fairclough@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646

• Abolition of slavery Memorial Year has begun News - 1 July 2023

  On 1 July – Keti Koti, in the year ahead, our university community will be able to reflect extensively on the history of slavery by engaging in research, education and many other activities.

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  Jip Barreveld PhD candidate

  Faculteit Archeologie

  j.barreveld@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

• History of Water Management in Yemen: An Interdisciplinary Study Event - 20 May 2024

  Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series

• What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022 Event
• Keti Koti in Leiden: 'Here, too, slavery is all around us‘ News - 30 June 2022

  Many traces of the city's slavery history can be found in Leiden but the public isn't always aware of them. The initiators of 'Mapping Slavery in Leiden' want to change this with guided tours and street markers. Representatives of the University and other Leiden institutions will be giving the first…

• Asia Academy #15: North Korea's Gamble Event - 12 December 2024

  Lecture, LAC Asia Academy

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  Judith Naeff University Lecturer International Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.a.naeff@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 5485

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  Florian Schneider Professor Modern China

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.a.schneider@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2544

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  Jennifer Swerida Assistant professor

  Faculteit Archeologie

  j.l.swerida@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Pablo Isla Monsalve University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.a.isla.monsalve@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2061

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  Giles Scott-Smith Dean LUC/Professor Transnational Relations and New Diplomatic History

  Faculty Governance and Global Affairs

  g.p.scott-smith@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9503

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  Vineet Thakur Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  v.thakur@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1256

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  Indira Huliselan PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  i.c.huliselan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1167

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  Jan-Bart Gewald Professor History of Africa

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  j.b.gewald@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3372

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  Bernhard Rieger Professor of European History

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.rieger@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1290

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  André Gerrits Professor of International Studies and Global Politics

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.w.m.gerrits@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2949

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  Eric Storm Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.j.storm@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2721

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  Carolien Stolte Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.m.stolte@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7308

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  Jonathan Powell Postdoc in ERC Consolidator Project FEATHERS

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.d.powell@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5586

• Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention News - 8 September 2023

  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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  Antje Wessels Professor of Latin Language and Literature

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.b.wessels@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2681

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  Jonathan Stökl University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.j.stokl@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2255

• History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’ News - 22 March 2021

  Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…

• Forgotten heroes

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  Emma Grootveld University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.j.m.grootveld@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2069

• Stone Age Chronicles: The Middle to Later Stone Age Transition in Southern Africa Event - 12 December 2023

  Conference

• The 12th-Century Transfer of Zaydi Legal Texts from the Caspian Region to Yemen and its Impact on Later Yemeni Zaydi Law Event - 25 November 2024

  Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series

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  Hans Janssen Professor emeritus History, in particular castles

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.l.janssen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2682

• 
  Berry Dongelmans Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.p.m.dongelmans@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Jan Just Witkam Professor emeritus of Codicology

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.j.witkam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171

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  Hendrik den Heijer Professor emeritus of Maritime History

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.j.den.heijer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646

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  Soledad Valdivia Rivera Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.valdivia.rivera@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2947

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  Jeroen Oosterbaan PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculteit Archeologie

  j.oosterbaan@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Nadia Bouras University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.bouras@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2088