The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (the NVIC) was founded in 1971. Eight universities in the Netherlands and Flanders participate in the institute with an aim to stimulating internationalisation of their teaching and research activities in the Middle East.

Thursday, the 16th of April at 6:00 pm

The safety of students is a priority and hence an ever recurring issue at the NVIC. NVIC not only attaches great importance to the safety of its students, but also that its students feel safe.

On a thursdaymorning our students were guided around a new exhibition in the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo. This exhibition displayed photographs and documents from the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century Western Arabian Peninsula.

Three students of the Arabic/Islamic BA programme seem to enjoy the Arabic class assignments.

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellowship for up to 6 months, connected to the ERC- funded research project Rethinking Disability at Leiden University, in cooperation with the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo.

Alumni Event

Book presentation

The NVIC has published a series of scholarly publications in Arabic and several European languages.

This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of Leiden University with the American University in Cairo.

The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo provides myriad forms of assistance to researchers from our affiliated institutions. For more information on the current research NVIC is involved in, please select your field of academic interest on the left.

Dr Kim Duistermaat (NVIC) en Niels Groot (TU Delft)

LUCIS Lecture | MENA Cultures & Global Aesthetics

The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo is an academic centre providing services for scholars and students from the supporting universities.

The guest rooms are located on the top floor of our institute.

Update : August 2017

Classics and Ancient Civilizations covers one years and can be studied in four programmes, one of them is Egyptology. When you choose to study this programme, you will both be guided through the broadness of Egyptological sub-disciplines, as well as gradually led to develop your own specific research…

The NVIC offers a wide range of services for scholars and students, which are available to the staff members, research fellows and students of the participating institutions at reduced cost.

Create a world of opportunities with a master's degree from Leiden University

Create a world of opportunities with a master's degree from Leiden University

Since 1990 Leiden University has awarded the William of Orange medal to individuals of eminent national or international social standing.

The Women of Ramesside Deir al-Medina

Dorothea Schulz & Martin Hense

Working and studying in an international community generates new insights, inspiring contacts and more robust research and teaching.

Leiden University provides ambitious students with the most recent and innovative areas of knowledge, and offers them the freedom to develop their own area of expertise.

For Arabic and Islamic Studies and Middle East Studies

For Arabic and Islamic Studies and Middle East Studies

Lecture

We welcome a new round of advanced researchers (post-MA) to apply to the institute's guest researchers positions.

Conference, Cleveringa conference

Director: Dr. Fred Leemhuis

Huda Abi-Fares defended her thesis on 10 January 2017.

Sunday, the 8th of March at 7:00 pm

The project re-examines the role of the Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox missionaries in the cultural and social developments of the Middle East and their interactions with the indigenous communities, from the nineteenth century until today. It seeks to discover and retrace such ‘entangled histories’…