496 search results for “egypt” in the Public website
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Success for Leiden with Vidi subsidies
NWO has awarded a Vidi subsidy to a total of 89 young and innovative researchers. Leiden researchers have won twelve of these subsidies and three subsidies have gone to the LUMC. Each researcher will receive up to 800,000 euro to develop a particular research theme or to set up a research group.
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Get to know Seif Kabil, chairman young alumni network
Seif Kabil is the new chairman of the International Young Leiden Law Alumni Network. Time to get to know him better.
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In pictures: animal mummies in a scanner
The story of Tutankhamun, the Egyptian pharaoh, is world famous. But did you know that the Ancient Egyptians mummified not only people but animals too? The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden recently put a bunch of animal mummies through a CT scanner. This was in collaboration with Canon Netherlands…
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Enough is enough – the medal will be returned
Over a decade ago the then foreign minister Abdullah Gül awarded me the “Medal of High Distinction” of the Republic of Turkey. I received the award, consisting of a diploma and a gigantic gold medal, during a festive ceremony at the Turkish embassy in The Hague. The reason I was deemed worthy of the…
- Material Agency Forum
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Het Zingend Hart goes Arabic
Festival, Middle Eastern Culture Market 2019
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Roots, Routes, Routers: Communications and Media of Contemporary Social Movements
Lecture, CADS Digital Diverse Worlds Seminar
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Arabs and Blemmyes in the Kingdom of Makuria: On name and identity in medieval Nubia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Dutch Symposium of the Near East
Conference
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Observing and interpreting nature: Aristotle’s biology in the Arabic and Latin tradition
Symposium and book launch
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Gender Archaeology
Conference
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From the Maghrib to the Mashriq? The Sacrifice of She-Camels among the Fatimids and Safavids
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! series
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The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Middle Eastern Culture Market 2018
Festival
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The Politics of Siege in the Syrian Conflict
Panel discussion
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The Terrorism Research Initiative (TRI) in a Nutshell
With 16 research institutions and more than 120 individual scholars from more than 30 countries in its ranks, the Terrorism Research Initiative (TRI) constitutes one of the largest research consortia in the field of Terrorism Studies.
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Festival showcases anthropology students’ work: scope of visual ethnography is widening
Visual ethnography has become an integral part of anthropology in Leiden. The students from the master’s specialisation will present their work at the LUVE festival on 8, 9 and 10 October. ‘For a film you have to negotiate with your research participants.’
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'I get to continue my academic career': archaeologist who fled Damascus for Leiden
Ghazwan Yaghi was a leading archaeologist and researcher in Damascus but had to flee in 2014 because of the war. An NWO 'Refugees in Science' grant has enabled him to pick up where he left off in his academic career. 'I've found myself again in this project.'
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Eurasian empires: report on the final conference
The final conference of the Eurasian Empires programme took place from 15 to 17 June 2016 in Leiden. The conference concluded a five-year research programme in which nine researchers worked on their own specific projects within the programme’s Eurasian scope, transcending borders by bringing together…
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‘The connection with society is always closer than you think’
On the Things That Talk platform, students publish stories about objects from museums from the many collections of the university library and the city. An interview with Fresco Sam-Sin, its creator. Sam-Sin: ‘Things That Talk is a way to talk to each other about the structure of our education and about…
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Blog Post | Do diplomatic gifts matter?
In this blog, Jorg Kustermans asks the question whether diplomatic gifts matter - a subject covered in the latest HJD Forum on gift giving in diplomacy.
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Where Have All Those Books Gone? Translocation and Provenance in Studying Medieval Middle Eastern Writerly Cultures
Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture (2019)
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Ports of Hope and Disaster: Human Holding Patterns in the Middle East and Africa
Debate, Panel
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From lugal.Gal to wanax?
Workshop
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Art & Activism: Resilience Techniques in Times of Crisis
Conference
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European security: Does Geography Matter?
Lecture
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Portable Light Dome Demonstration
Lecture, Demonstration
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Rage Against the Regime
Debate, LUCIS Panel Discussion | Islam in North Africa
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Sponsored Research
Global Interactions sponsors a number of research projects of Leiden University researchers.
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Historicizing Security. Enemies of the State, 1813 until present
The research project ‘The History of National Security, 1945-present', is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Campus The Hague/Leiden University and the Netherlands Institute for Military History (NIMH). The project will run until the summer of 2013, when we hope…
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Exchanges on the Middle East: Heritage for Citizenship in Times of Conflict
Student Workshop
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Panel Discussion and Book Launch: Strategic Human Rights Litigation Understanding and Maximising Impact
Book Launch
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Exchanges on the Middle East II: Turkey and the Middle East
Student workshop
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Exchanges on the Middle East II: Turkey and the Middle East
Public Lecture and Debate
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Feelings Matter: Emotions in Medieval Arabic
Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture (2018)
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ECA Summer School on Argumentation
Conference, Summer School
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Last Skies: Avian Imaginaries in Video Art from the Middle East
Arts and Culture, LUCIS and RCMC film screening and panel discussion
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Introducing: Eurasian Empires projectgroep
The Horizon programme 'Eurasian Empires: integration processes and identity formations' started September 1st 2014. The six PhD students and two Postdocs introduce themselves.
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Silent Disco
Festival, Middle Eastern Culture Market 2019
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Centre for Digital Heritage meeting 2017
Annual meeting
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YAL members
Read all about YAL membership and the members of the Young Academy Leiden.
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By the rivers of Babylon: New perspectives on Second Temple Judaism from Cuneiform texts
“BABYLON” investigates the extent of the similarities between Babylonian and post-exilic forms of cultic and social organization and explores the question how Babylonian models could have influenced the restoration effort in Jerusalem.
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Campus The Hague Career Event
Conference
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Small Grant Research Projects
The LUCDH foster the development of new digital research by awarding a number of Small Grants each year. As in previous years the LUCDH received a large number of excellent grant applications for Research and Personal Development funds. Congratulations to the recipients of this year's research award…
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Masterclasses by Hugh Kennedy
Course, Al-Babtain Masterclasses
- Global Asia Scholar Series (GLASS)