3532 search results for “middle east and north africa” in the Public website
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Safer Field Research in the Middle East and North Africa
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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China and EU in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Conference, Round Table Discussion
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Global Modernism in the Middle East and North Africa: Afterlives and Aftermaths
Faculty Roundtable | MENA Cultures & Global Aesthetics
- of Production, Crisis and Revolt: The Environment and Capital in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
- WHAT's NEW!? Spring Lecture Series
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[CANCELLED] Protests, Neoliberalism, and Authoritarianism: Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, and Morocco
Debate, LUCIS Discussion Panel
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The Sufi and the Idol: Abdelwahab Meddeb’s Autobiographies
Lecture
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Exchanges on the Middle East: Heritage for Citizenship in Times of Conflict
Public Lecture and Debate
- KITAB LUCIS lectures
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Book copying and text reuse detection
Lecture
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Sino-Arab Cultural Exchanges under Cultural Policies of the Arab League
Lecture
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Representation of Female War Martyrs in Contemporary Persian Novels
Lecture
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Islam in North Africa: A Critical Return to Youth
In recent years, and especially since the ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011, a growing body of research, media reporting, and scholarly literature has focused on the role of ‘Arab youth’ as the drivers of social and political movements across the Middle East and North Africa.
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MENA Cultures and Global Aesthetics
Aesthetic formations and cultural repertoires give meaning to our reality in ways that are never neutral. Focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and its global interlocutors, this project brings together a team of scholars from Leiden University who bring in inter-disciplinary, inter-area…
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Networks and community
The D&I Expertise Office is in close contact with various student and staff networks regarding diversity and inclusion.
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About the programme
The one-year (60 EC) master’s in Middle Eastern Studies provides intensive and comprehensive training with a flexible programme format allowing you to focus on your specific interests. The programme prepares you for a range of careers requiring specialist language or cultural knowledge.
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Affiliated members
LUCIS affiliated members are researchers outside Leiden University who are actively involved in the study of Islam and/or Muslim societies and who regularly participate in LUCIS activities. LUCIS affiliate membership offers possibilities to cooperate with LUCIS as well as network opportunities. Contact…
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About the programme
Discover the newest insights from established scholars.
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International Studies helped Nassim Abba broaden his horizon: ‘Everyone brings their own outlook with them’
Nassim was in the first cohort of students who began the bachelor’s programme in International Studies in 2012. His foreign classmates changed his outlook on the world. He now advises managers and civil servants on issues in higher education and internationalisation. His international perspective helps…
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Kick-off conference on the role of law in Libya’s national reconciliation
On 11 and 12 April, the kick-off conference “The role of law in Libya’s national reconciliation” took place. The conference marked the official start of a research project by the Van Vollenhoven Institute of Leiden University and the Centre for Law and Society Studies of the University of Benghazi on…
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Research
The VVI seeks to advance knowledge of the formation and functioning of legal systems in their social contexts, the impact of these systems on society and vice versa, their effectiveness in governance, and their contribution to development.
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The Role of the Muslim Brotherhood Within the Geopolitics of the Middle East
LUCIS Lecture
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The Middle Eastern City in Three De-constructed Stereotypes
Festival, Middle Eastern Culture Market 2019
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“I looked upon the Nile”: In the Archives with Langston Hughes
LUCIS Masterclass | MENA Cultures & Global Aesthetics
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Muslim Youth and the 9/11 Generation
On young Muslims seeking to understand their place and make their way in a transformed world.
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Jihad: Between Theory and Practice
Conference
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Farewell and installation event for the outgoing and incoming Diversity Officer
Conference
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Law and Governance in Muslim Societies
With regard to governance, policies and law, many Muslims and Muslim countries recognise the possibility that Islam has something important to say about the way society is to be ordered, governed, and regulated.
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International Trade and Foreign Aid in a World that is Increasingly Inward Looking
Lecture
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‘An inclusive university begins with which books you choose’
Sociologist Aya Ezawa is the new Diversity Officer at Leiden University. What is the University doing well and what could it do better? ‘It’s taken much more for granted that universities should be a reflection of society. But this is also an area where we can still make progress.’
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From Ship to Shore: Commercial Privilege and Material Culture in Eighteenth Century Yemen
Lecture
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Gravensteen Lecture | Early Islamic art exhibits and sales in Paris (1865-1869)
Lecture
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series
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Exchanges on the Middle East II: Turkey and the Middle East
Student workshop
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The Responsibility to Protect: the Case of Libya
Lecture
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Natives of Borno: Islamic Knowledge and African American Literature
LUCIS Lecture | MENA Cultures & Global Aesthetics
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Global Frictions & Creative Traces: Works in Progress
Project presentation | MENA Cultures and Global Aesthetics
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Exchanges on the Middle East: Heritage for Citizenship in Times of Conflict
Student Workshop
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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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Exchanges on the Middle East II: Turkey and the Middle East
Public Lecture and Debate
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Exchanges on the Middle East III| Libya: Prospects for National Reconciliation
Student workshop
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Exchanges on the Middle East III / Henriette van Lynden lecture | Libya: Prospects for Peace and Reconciliation
Public lectures and debate
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Kamran Matin: Lineages of the Islamic State: An international historical sociology of State (de‐)formation in Iraq
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
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Palestine: Strategic Challenges of the Future and the Role of Europe
Lecture, 40th Anniversary Lecture by the Lutfia Rabbani Foundation
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International Arbitration Course at the Peace Palace in The Hague
After a successful pilot in 2016, the second edition of the International Arbitration Course took place at the end of August. The course is a tripartite collaboration between the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, the Department of Civil Law of Leiden Law School and the Permanent Court…
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Sponsored Research
Global Interactions sponsors a number of research projects of Leiden University researchers.
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Dutch ships built by North Koreans in Polish shipyards
North Korean labourers are still being forced to work in the European Union. According to researchers, including Professor of Korean Studies Remco Breuker at Leiden University, Dutch companies are buying ships from a dockyard that uses North Korean workers.
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Kevin KöhlerFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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the Arab World: European missionaries and humanitarianism in the Middle East (1850-1970)
From the mid-19th century until the 1970’s, the Middle East witnessed the presence of various European missionaries who played a fundamental role in the birth and the development of humanitarianism. Since these Christian missionaries were well integrated in the local Middle Eastern societies via their…
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Mark WestmorelandFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen