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563 search results for “middle eastern literary” in the Student website

• Kids Activities @ Middle Eastern Culture Market Event
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  Léon Buskens Director NIMAR

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.p.h.m.buskens@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 212 53 76 68500

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  Maria Riep PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

  m.riep@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272171

• Literary café

  Lipsius, Cleveringaplaats 1, 2311 BD, Leiden

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  Shahab Daneshvar PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.daneshvar.2@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Middle East Studies Lectures Event
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  Shuqi Jia PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.jia@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Hominin diversity in Eastern Asia Event - 22 January 2026

  Conference

• Middle Eastern Culture Market 2021: Evening Edition News - 25 November 2021

  This year, LUCIS adapted the programme of its popular annual Middle Eastern Culture Market into an evening version, featuring a lecture, book discussion, and music.

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  Crystal Ennis University Lecturer Political Economies of the Middle East

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.a.ennis@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5635

• 47th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics (#SOEMEHL47) Event - 12 December 2025

  Conference

• Scores of visitors attend open evening at new Middle Eastern Library News - 26 September 2024

  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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  Jamaseb Soltani Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.soltani@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9512

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  Erik-jan Zurcher Professor emeritus Turkish Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.j.zurcher@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jelle Bruning University Lecturer Middle Eastern Studies / Arabic

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.bruning@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1396

• dating back thousands of years moved: ‘From receipts to the oldest literary works’ News - 27 February 2024

  How do you move 3,000 fragile clay tablets that date back thousands of years? This was the challenge faced by staff from the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO). After years of preparation, the Liagre Böhl collection has been moved on trolleys to its new home.

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  Christian Henderson University Lecturer International Relations / Modern Middle East Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.j.v.henderson@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4995

• Stereotypes and Misconceptions about the Middle East - The Reading List News - 31 May 2024

  The perception of the Middle East is riddled with stereotypes that have had dire consequences on its people. What is myth and what is reality? How did these stereotypes come about? What consequences have they had? All of these questions and more are answered within this reading list.

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  Lidewij van de Peut NINO Visiting Research Fellow

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.e.van.de.peut@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  mat Immerzeel Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.immerzeel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9512

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  Marina Calculli Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.calculli@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277599

• Literary Leiden News - 3 April 2023

  Quietly read a book in our new reading nook, listen to interesting and bizarre stories set in early twentieth-century Leiden, walk past literary locations in Leiden and watch the best film adapted from a Leiden novel as decided on by you. April is Literary Leiden month! A month in which we pay special…

• Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (SOEMEHL) Event
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  Tsolin Nalbantian Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.nalbantian@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2985

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  Rachel Beckles Willson Professor by special appointment Intercultural Performing Arts

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.beckles.willson@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Zahra Azhar PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

  z.azhar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Deniz Tat University Lecturer Turkish

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.tat@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7100

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  Valentina Azzarà Honorary Research Fellow

  Faculty of Archaeology

  v.m.azzara@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

• What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022 Event
• What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022 Event
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  Cahit Mete Oguz Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.m.oguz@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275477

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  Eli van Duijnen Education coordinator/Study adviser

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.g.van.duijnen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3565

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  Petra Sijpesteijn Professor of Arabic

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.m.sijpesteijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2027

• Bareez Majid nominated for ECHO Award News - 21 May 2015

  Iraqi-Kurdish student of Middle Eastern Studies Bareez Majid has been nominated for the ECHO Award. ‘She has a strong personality, though she may appear unassuming at first,’ was the comment from one of her lecturers.

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  Alp Yenen University Lecturer Modern Turkish History and Culture

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.a.yenen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272943

• Leiden University's world-renowned collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts Event - 2 April 2024

  Lecture, Studium Generale

• Reviews of Nationalism in Times Literary Supplement and Foreign Affairs News - 20 March 2025

  Eric Storm’s book Nationalism: A World History has been reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement and Foreign Affairs.

• Modern Arabic titles in catalogue searchable in Arabic script News - 27 October 2022

  Modern Arabic titles in the catalogue of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) can now also be consulted in original Arabic script. Taking away the need to transliterate titles, has made searching for Arabic source materials in the catalogue much easier and more efficient for users.

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  Jan Meijer Lecturer

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  j.d.meijer@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9512

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  Ugur Derin PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  u.derin@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Onur Ada PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  o.ada@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275485

• practice-oriented and connected history of Christianities in the medieval Middle East (12th-17th centuries Event - 13 February 2026

  Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History

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  Judith Naeff University Lecturer International Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.a.naeff@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8004192

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  Hossam Ahmed Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.i.a.a.ahmed@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4417

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  Hirad Rezaiejoo External PhD candidate

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  h.rezaiejoo@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

• Women collecting the Middle East: collaborators and collections News - 30 July 2021

  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…

• Pioneer Christiaan Weijts: clandestine novelist in literary circles News - 28 June 2021

  In a new series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this first instalment: novelist and columnist Christiaan Weijts (1976). ‘I always felt as though someone would tap me on my shoulder once they’d discovered my clandestine presence.’

• Book: The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East News - 2 March 2022

  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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  Noa Schonmann Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.schonmann@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271432

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