20 search results for “middle east” in the Staff website
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Lidewij van de PeutFaculty of Humanities
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Zahra AzharFaculty of Humanities
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mat ImmerzeelFaculty of Humanities
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Deniz TatFaculty 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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Erik-jan ZurcherFaculty of Humanities
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Ugur DerinFaculty of Humanities
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Onur AdaFaculty of Humanities
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Hirad RezaiejooFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Oussama MacnackFaculty of Humanities
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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 Theunissen
Faculty of Humanities
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Ahmet Serdar GünaydinFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Jonah Schulhofer-WohlSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Petra de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Alp YenenFaculty of Humanities
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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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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…