23 search results for “middle east” in the Staff website
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Lidewij van de PeutFaculty of Humanities
l.e.van.de.peut@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Zahra AzharFaculty of Humanities
z.azhar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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mat ImmerzeelFaculty of Humanities
m.immerzeel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9512
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Deniz TatFaculty of Humanities
d.tat@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7100
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Onur AdaFaculty of Humanities
o.ada@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5485
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Omer KocyigitFaculty of Humanities
o.kocyigit@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Ugur DerinFaculty of Humanities
u.derin@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272171
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Erik-jan ZurcherFaculty of Humanities
e.j.zurcher@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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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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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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Hirad RezaiejooFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
h.rezaiejoo@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500
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Petra de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
p.de.bruijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2592
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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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Hans TheunissenFaculty of Humanities
h.p.a.theunissen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6480
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Ahmet Serdar GünaydinFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
a.s.gunaydin@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009506
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Jonah Schulhofer-WohlFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
j.b.schulhofer-wohl@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 3903
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Noa SchonmannFaculty of Humanities
n.schonmann@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1432
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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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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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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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Five Comenius Teaching grants for Leiden lecturers
Three lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded a €100,000 Comenius Teaching grant within the Senior Fellows programme. A further two lecturers have been awarded a €50,000 grant within the Teaching Fellows programme. The grants will enable the lecturers and their project teams to realise an…
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Telling the story of Gaza
Lecture, Book presentation and Q&A