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Jelle Bruning is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. His research interests include the social and literary history of the medieval Islamicate world. His current research projects focus on the history of slavery and the literary representation of sacred geography…

Oussama Macnack is external PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

Femke Lippok works within the Rural Riches project, concerned with the recovery of the early medieval economy after the collapse of Roman authority in the North.

As Associate Professor of Visual Anthropology, Mark is primarily responsible for shaping the educational and research agendas within the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University.

Milco Wansleeben is lecturer for statistical analysis and computer courses.

I am a scholar of political economy and development in the Middle East. My research focuses on the Arab region, with a particular focus on Gulf investment in the states of North Africa and the Levant, rural development and business politics. Aside from my academic career I have 20 years experience of…

Dusan Maczek is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Mette is currently a PhD researcher in the ERC project Rural Riches, The bottom-up development of Post-Roman Northwestern Europe (450-640).

Leiden Law School has developed a new course for the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, bringing together scientific research and professional practice. The course starts on 5 February 2026 at the Centre for Professional Learning in The Hague.

Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl is Senior Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University.

Peter Webb is University Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Arabic Literature and Culture at Leiden University. He specialises in early Arabic poetry and prose, combining philology, literary analysis, and anthropological approaches to examine how poetic, narrative, and historiographical traditions shaped…

Alp Yenen is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He works primarily on the political history of modern Turkey and the Middle East. He is specialized on the turn of the 20th century, First World War, Interwar period, and the Cold War period. He also comments and…

Petra de Bruijn teaches courses on Turkish literature, theatre, film and television drama at the department of Middle Eastern Studies of Leiden University. Her scholarly work focuses on nationalism in contemporary Turkish narrative culture.

Hans Theunissen is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Eduard Pop is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Marina Calculli is a university lecturer at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies. From 1 February 2022 to 31 January 2025, she will be on leave from Leiden to take up a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship at Columbia University in New York and Sciences Po Paris.

Exploitation of smaller game is rarely documented before the latest phases of the Pleistocene, which is often taken to imply narrow diets for earlier hominins. In a study now published in Scientific Reports, a team of German and Dutch archaeologists present new data that contradict this view of Lower…

What's New?! is a lecture series organised by LUCIS and the department of Middle Eastern Studies. The lectures focus on current research on Islam and the Middle East.

What's New?! is a lecture series organised by LUCIS and the department of Middle Eastern Studies. The lectures focus on current research on Islam and the Middle East.

I specialize in the field of modern Middle East studies, concentrating on the region's politics and international relations (history and theory), foreign policy analysis, and diplomatic history. As a historian of international relations I have developed special research interests in the Arab-Israeli…

Ahmet Serdar Günaydin is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University. His research focuses on the United Nations special political missions and their approaches towards fostering national dialogues and policy reforms. He explores the multilateral diplomatic efforts…

Lieke Smits is a researcher at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Emmanuelle Radar is Assistant Professor in contemporary French and Francophone literature(s) and culture(s) (20th-21st c.) at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Igor Boog is the Director of Studies and an Assistant Professor Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University.

Valentina Azzarà is an honorary research fellow at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Finding solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the not-inconsiderable task of the new Peace Academy in The Hague. Professor Maurits Berger and twelve students from different conflict zones are starting a creative thinking process that aims to discover the basic conditions for peace in the…

Political scientist Kevin Köhler (Leiden University) has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This prestigious grant enables him to set up a research group in the coming five years. Köhler and his team will examine how elite conflict affects processes of regime change…

Mohamed Muse is a researcher at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University. Mohamed Muse’s current research focuses on diaspora remittances and international financial regulations in Sub-Saharan Africa. Mohamed’s background is in International Development and International Political…