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329 search results for “michel east and noort afrika” in the Student website

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  Alisee Devillers NINO Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Albert Planelles Orozco NINO Postdoctoral Fellow

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Eric Olijdam Guest Staff Member

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Kiki Freriks NINO editorial assistant Bibliotheca Orientalis

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jesse Millek NINO Visiting Research Fellow / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Georg Cyrus NINO Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Marijke Tieleman Ex Oriente Lux

  Faculty of Humanities

• Machine Learning: Linguistic Cues for Arabic Authorship Analysis Event - 7 April 2026

  Middle East Studies Lecture

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  Rens Blaauwendraad PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

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  Sven van Dijk PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

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  Marco Maiolini PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

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  Daniël Rutgers PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

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  Danny Chan
• Researchers from Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’ News - 9 August 2022

  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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  Carolien Stolte Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Florian Schneider Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Sara Bolghiran PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Martijn van Ette PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Monique Arntz Guest researcher

  Faculty of Archaeology

• Palestinian-Israeli Coexistence in the Middle East Event - 17 June 2025

  Debate

• Vici for Petra Sijpesteijn: 'Islamic Empire rapidly became unified' News - 9 December 2024

  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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  Hans Oversloot Guest researcher

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Maria Spirova Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Yunnan Ye PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jorrit Kelder NINO Visiting Research Fellow / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Kohei Suzuki Assistant professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Michela Piccin NINO Visiting Research Fellow

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jaris Darwin PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Burcu Yildirim NINO Visiting Research Fellow

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Poortgebouw Location

  Rijnsburgerweg 10, Leiden

• Herta Mohr lecture Event
• International Exchange Coordinators Contact and advice

  Leiden University students interested in studying abroad can contact their outgoing exchange coordinator for advice and assistance. For international exchange students visiting Leiden University, your first point of contact is your incoming exchange coordinator.

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  Ingrid van Biezen Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Jack Tillman PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Donna de Groene Postdoc

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Max Willem Lenssen PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Azra Say Otun PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Valentina Azzarà Honorary Research Fellow

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Youssef Cherif PhD candidate / Self Funded

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Annas Rabbani External PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

• Book Talk: Israeli-Turkish Relations at the End of the Cold War: The Geopolitics of Denying the Armenian Genocide Event - 13 May 2026

  Lecture, Book Talk

• Running Leiden Marathon in a 450th-anniversary t-shirt News - 13 May 2025

  Nearly 19,000 runners lined up at the start of Leiden Marathon on Sunday, among them students and staff from the university. For some this was their first race, for others a highlight of their year. This year, in celebration of our 450th anniversary, they ran in a special jubilee t-shirt.

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  Bente de Leede PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• New Director of Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo wants to increase the institute’s visibility News - 20 February 2025

  Egyptologist Marleen De Meyer has been appointed the new Director of the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC). Dr De Meyer has worked for the institute, which promotes Egyptian, Dutch and Flemish collaboration in the field of education and research, since 2016.

• A platform for a complex conflict: ‘Friction is good’ News - 17 February 2026

  Yousef Sweid was called a ‘stinking Arab’ in the sandpit at his Jewish kindergarten in Haifa. In a packed lecture hall, the Palestinian-Israeli actor performed a powerful excerpt from his show ‘Between the River and the Sea’.

• Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy News - 31 August 2021

  This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.

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  Niels van Willigen Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Petr Kopecky Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• News

• Groen licht voor (studenten)woningen in Oegstgeesterdeel News - 17 March 2023

  De Universiteit Leiden kan van start met de bouw van 300 studentenwoningen en 500 overige woningen in het Leiden Bio Science Park.