Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS)
The Leiden Institute for Area Studies consists of the School of Asian Studies, the School of Middle-Eastern Studies and the School of Religious Studies.
The institute is committed to a present-day vision of area studies, integrating (inter)disciplinary and regional-historical perspectives on a solid foundation of excellent language skills.
News
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Archaeologists discover 3,000-year-old Egyptian tomb -
The forgotten deaths of fifteen Chinese workers during the Second World War -
Students tackle the issue of a sense of purpose among young people -
Two professors of the Hebrew bible offered a seminar “The Biblical Covenant and its Afterlife” sponsored by the Leiden Jewish Studies Network -
Prof. Stephen Russell meets with the CareCentury Team to discuss “Maternal Care in the Ancient Near East” -
Three Comenius Teaching Fellowships for Leiden lecturers
In the media
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Maurits Berger on Al Jazeera: ‘Little change in the Dutch-Israeli relation’ -
Rogier Creemers on France 24 about China’s new supercomputer -
Christopher Green: ‘Kim feels emboldened to expand North Korea's nuclear arsenal as long as he doesn't create outright instability’ -
Willemijn Waal in Hecho en California: Greek alphabet may be older than we think -
Frank Pieke on BBC: ‘Corruption charges have become Xi's main basis of power’ -
Willemijn Waal in National Geographic Portugal: ‘Hittites were very pragmatic’
