2,053 search results for “the from east” in the Public website
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Indonesian-Dutch Literature Collective
The aim of the Indonesian-Dutch Literature Collective (which is allied to the Society of Dutch Literature (MNL)) is to support research into the literature of and about the Dutch Indies, from the era of the Dutch East India Company to the present. Starting in 1986, the collective has published its own…
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The Confluence of Water and Power
On 27 January 2022 Tjahjono Prasodjo successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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From Data to insight
Social science research helps us understand human behaviour and social structures. These are determined by various factors, which makes the research complex and increases the likelihood of drawing the wrong conclusions. The choice of research method and analysis is therefore extremely important. It…
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Leiden Institute for Area Studies
To truly understand complex regions such as the Middle East and Asia, you have to know their culture, history and local societies inside out. Driven by curiosity for other cultures, the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) provides an understanding and analysis of current and historical…
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Correlates of Complexity
Essays in Archaeology and Assyriology Dedicated to Diederik J.W. Meijer in Honour of his 65th Birthday
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Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere
Jews and Christians in the Middle East
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Upcoming Fourth LEAC Conference – 27 November 2018 at Strathmore University Law School
On 27 November 2018, the Center for Legal and Comparative Studies of the East African Community of Leiden University (LEAC) is organizing, in close cooperation with Strathmore University Law School, the University of Nairobi Law School and the IRID, the Fourth LEAC Conference on the topic “Teaching…
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Felicia RosuFaculty of Humanities
f.rosu@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4116
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resistance : a study of religions, politics and social change in West Java from the early 20th Century to the present
Chaider Bamualim defended his thesis on 9 September 2015
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Riches Beyond the Horizon
Long-distance Trade in Early Medieval Landscapes (ca. 6th-12th centuries)
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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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Tanzania
This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of Leiden Law School with the University of Dar es Salaam.
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Kenya
This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of Leiden Law School with three universities in Kenya.
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Yoonai HanFaculty of Humanities
y.han@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2551
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Babak Rezaeedaryakenari
Social & Behavioural Sciences
s.rezaeedaryakenari@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512
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Synthesis
Abrupt Climate Change and Cultural Transformation
- BA Fall Middle East Studies Programme
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Cushitic influence on Bantu in East Africa
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
- Annual Medieval Middle East Meeting 2024
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Neolithisation of Northeastern Africa
Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and Environment, vol.16. Edited by Noriyuki Shirai.
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Tell Sabi Abyad – The Late Neolithic Settlement
Report on the Excavations of the University of Amsterdam (1988) and the National Museum of Antiquities Leiden (1991-1993) in Syria.
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Admission and Application
Find out how to apply for East Asian Studies at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
- BA Spring Middle East Studies programme
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Rwanda
This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of Leiden Law School with the University of Rwanda.
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Voicing the colony
This project studies travel writing about the Dutch East Indies written between 1800 and the end of the Second World War. By analyzing both Dutch travel texts and Indigenous travel texts in Javanese and Malay, it presents a new, double-voiced perspective on (the historiography of) the Dutch colonial…
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About NVIC
The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo is an academic centre providing services for scholars and students from the supporting universities.
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Contact
The Central and East European Studies Centre is hosted by Leiden University.
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'A Disney-version of Nimrud does not bring back history'
The Iraqi archaeological site of Nimrud was recently recaptured from IS. The site has been severely damaged. The question now is, what to do with it? Should it be restored? Bleda Düring spoke with Trouw about this complex issue.
- International Students NVIC
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Cultural diplomacy and the Javanese Courts (19th and early 20th century)
Central to Nuranisa’s PhD project is the cultural diplomacy practiced by the Javanese courts of central Java (Surakarta, Yogyakarta, Pakualaman and Mangkunegaran) in response to the increasing Dutch colonial power in the 19th and early 20th century. The Javanese sultanates were incorporated into the…
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Islam and Society
Knowledge of Muslim societies is essential to function in a globalised world and to fully understand our own Dutch society. Leiden researchers explore the languages, cultures, religions, legal systems and history of Muslim societies and in this way contribute to a centuries-old tradition.
- Meet our staff
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Layered loyalties: the Natuurkundige Commissie in the Netherlands Indies (1820-1850)
This dissertation, Layered Loyalties: The Natuurkundige Commissie in the Netherlands Indies (1820-1850), studies the Natuurkundige Commissie.
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De postkoloniale spiegel. De Nederlands-Indische letteren herlezen
The Dutch colonial past in Indonesia has had a major influence on literature.
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Chinese Studies
LIAS aims to advance the globally conscious vision of area studies, both within and outside the academic community. Focusing on Asia and the Middle East, the institute is a meeting place of multiple fields of inquiry, theories and methods, historical periods, and areas.
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Alp YenenFaculty of Humanities
a.a.yenen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272943
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Armenians Beyond Diaspora: Making Lebanon their Own
This book argues that Armenians around the world – in the face of the Genocide, and despite the absence of an independent nation-state after World War I – developed dynamic socio-political, cultural, ideological and ecclesiastical centres. And it focuses on one such centre, Beirut, in the postcolonial…
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About the programme
The MA Asian Studies East Asian Studies offers focused study of China, Japan or Korea. You can study the country of your choice from an expansive number of disciplinary perspectives including history, literature, art, art history, sociology, anthropology, media, cultural studies, religious studies,…
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Commonplace - Photographs from the Drummond-Fyvie Collection and the Ngilima Collection
Commonplace - Photographs from the Drummond-Fyvie Collection and the Ngilima Collection. By Tamsyn Adams and Sophie Feyder.
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Ann BrysbaertFaculty of Archaeology
a.n.brysbaert@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275328
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Collections
The new Middle Eastern Library (MEL) will bring together the UBL's own Middle Eastern collections and the collections of the library of The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO), which has been part of the Leiden University Libraries since 1st January 2018.
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World Archaeology
The researchers in the World Archaeology department of the Faculty of Archaeology concentrate on a range of different periods and regions: from humanity’s origins to the Middle Ages and the modern age, and from Asia to South America.
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Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo
The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (the NVIC) was founded in 1971. Nine universities in the Netherlands and Flanders participate in the institute with an aim to stimulating internationalisation of their teaching and research activities in the Middle East.
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Tell Sabi Abyad II – The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Settlement
Report on the Excavations of the National Museum of Antiquities Leiden in the Balikh Valley, Syria.
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People
Overview of the Leiden Asia staff per area or country.
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Excavations at Tell Sabi Abyad – Prehistoric Investigations in the Balikh Valley, Northern Syria
Balikh Valley Archaeological Project Monograph 1 - BAR International Series 468
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Middle Eastern Studies (BA)
Do you want to discover a language and culture that is completely different from the Netherlands? In the Bachelor's programme Middle Eastern Studies you will study the connections between the different cultures in the Middle-East in the past and present. You will be able to choose from the languages…
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The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
The gripping story of a collective passion for freedom that shook the world.
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Collaboration in priority regions
Our ambition to contribute to society and the world, searching to solutions to the global challenges of our time, can only be achieved with solid relationships worldwide.
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Paulina Banas - Nineteenth-Century Travel, Collaboration, and Orientalist Publishing on Egypt
This lecture will be hosted on Wednesday, 17 December 2025 at 6:00 pm.