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Middle East Studies Lectures

The Middle East Studies Lectures are organized throughout the academic year. Our Department Talks are a great opportunity to get to know colleagues, stay up to date with research in the department, and strengthen our academic community. Everyone is welcome, staff and students. So feel free to invite your students!

Previous lectures

Spring 2026

Geo-Poetics and the Reconstruction of Pre-Islamic Arabian History

When did Bureaucrats become “Christian"? Religious Identity as a lens for the Social and Economic backgrounds of Administrators during the Umayyad Caliphate (ca. 661-750 C.E.)

Machine Learning: Linguistic Cues for Arabic Authorship Analysis

Religion and Secularism in Turkish television drama

Autumn 2025

Normalizing Racism Through Denial: Online Discursive Strategies Against Kurds in Turkey

The ties that bound early Islamicate society

From Cordoba to Damascus: Reconstructing the final lost chapter of the Arabic Orosius

Monarchies of Extraction: The Gulf states in the global food system

Spring 2025

Whose Language Is It, Anyway? Mapping Arabic in Modern Hebrew Literature

Prudent Resistance: Hezbollah's Endurance in a Hostile World

Rites of Passage in Ancient Near Eastern Rituals

[CANCELLED] Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire

The Content Outsider: Israel's Role in Regional Ordering

The Shii Law of War Booty: What Imamis and Zaydis Say about the Division of the Khums

Fall 2026

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