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.

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.

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

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.

Alumni Event

Book presentation

Lecture

LUCIS Lecture | MENA Cultures & Global Aesthetics

Lecture

Conference, Cleveringa conference

Lecture

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.

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.

Update : August 2017

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

The Women of Ramesside Deir al-Medina

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

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

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

A short video about the symposium!

The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo offers accommodation to researchers, staff and students of the affiliated Dutch and Flemish universities.

Dorothea Schulz & Martin Hense

For Arabic and Islamic Studies and Middle East Studies

For Arabic and Islamic Studies and Middle East Studies

On the 17th and 18th of September 2018, the workshop Egyptian Riverine Harbours took place for the second time. The workshop is organized by the French, Austrian and Netherlands-Flemish institutes in Cairo and the Leuven Egyptologists. Harco Willems held his lecture on the relation between the antique…

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

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

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…

Coming semester Karen Vet will be joining our team as the new intern. She has a BA in Middle Eastern Studies from Leiden University, specializing in Arabic language and culture.

The library of the NVIC is an academic reference library. The goal of the library is to support academic research and the teaching programmes of the NVIC in the fields of Arabic studies and Egyptology. However, the collection contains publications for a more generally interested public as well.

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

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.

Subproject of "Eurasian Empires. Integration processes and identity formations"

Director: Dr. Fred Leemhuis

On Friday the 6th of May