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 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

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 2026

Programme

• 10 Feb
  Middle East Studies Lecture Geo-Poetics and the Reconstruction of Pre-Islamic Arabian History Peter Webb
• 03 Mar
  Middle East Studies Lecture 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.) Nicholas Longworth
• 07 Apr
  Middle East Studies Lecture Machine Learning: Linguistic Cues for Arabic Authorship Analysis Hossam Ahmed
• 12 May
  Middle East Studies Lecture Religion and Secularism in Turkish television drama Petra de Bruijn

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