3540 search results for “middle eastern studies” in the Public website
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Middle Eastern Studies (BA)
Do you want to discover a language and culture that is completely different from the Netherlands? In the Bachelor's programme Middle Eastern Studies you will study the connections between the different cultures in the Middle-East in the past and present. You will be able to choose from the languages…
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Middle Eastern Studies (MA)
Leiden University’s master’s in Middle Eastern Studies programme is a one-year, full-time master’s programme that is taught completely in English. It deals with a wealth of fascinating, inspirational and highly relevant topics.
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Middle Eastern Studies (research) (MA)
Designed for high-achieving students, Leiden University's master's in Middle Eastern Studies (Research) offers you unmatched resources and expertise.
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Shuqi Jia
Faculty of Humanities
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Anais Massot
Faculty of Humanities
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Hossein Pourbagheri
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan Colder
Faculty of Humanities
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Shahab Daneshvar
Faculty of Humanities
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Eftychia Mylona
Faculty of Humanities
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Marcela Garcia Probert
Faculty of Humanities
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Léon Buskens
Faculty of Humanities
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Jamaseb Soltani
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Middle Eastern Culture Market 2020 Online
Arts and Culture, Middle Eastern Culture Market
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Women’s Involvement in the Leftist Guerrilla Movements in Iran and Turkey during the 1960s and 1970s
This project compares and contrasts how and why several Turkish and Iranian women were compelled to participate in leftist guerilla movements in the 1960s and 1970s.
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State, Society and Labour: A Social History of Iranian Textile workers, 1906-1941
This research investigates everyday lives and workplace experiences of Iranian workers employed at textile industry, which was the second biggest industry after oil following the latter’s discovery in 1908.
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Crystal Ennis
Faculty of Humanities
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Mehdy Shaddel Basir
Faculty of Humanities
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Humanities, Institute for Area Studies
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Ancient Near Eastern Studies (BA)
The areas around the Mediterranean Sea have a rich and fascinating past. Do you want to explore these ancient and diverse cultures of the Mediterranean World? In the Dutch-taught Bachelor's programme Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Leiden University you will study the world of Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia…
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Thy Name is Deer. Animal Names in Semitic Onomastics and Name- Giving Traditions: Evidence from Akkadian, Northwest Semitic, and Arabic
Hekmat Dirbas defended his thesis on 14 February 2017
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Central and Eastern European Studies Center, Leiden University
The Central and Eastern European Studies Center is an interdisciplinary platform of Leiden University scholars aiming to bundle, strengthen, and disseminate existing research into the history, politics, and culture of Central and Eastern Europe.
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Tsolin Nalbantian
Faculty of Humanities
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Petra Sijpesteijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Jelle Bruning
Faculty of Humanities
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Christian Henderson
Faculty of Humanities
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Middle East Studies
Since 2017, NVIC offers an interdisciplinary semester in Middle East Studies for students of Dutch and Flemish universities, primarily in the fields of International Studies. Half the semester (15 ects) is devoted to Arabic language acquisition, both Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian Colloquial…
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Turkish Studies
Welcome to the website of Turkish Studies at Leiden University. On this website you will find information on the work and the activities of the people studying the Ottoman Empire and Turkey at Leiden University.
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Peter Webb
Faculty of Humanities
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The social history of labor in the Iranian oil industry (1908-1954)
This PhD research sets out to unravel and explain the socio-structural and cultural impacts of oil-industrialization on the local Bakhtiari community in general and the industrial laborers it provided in specific.
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Marina Calculli
Faculty of Humanities
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Livestream graduation ceremony MA Middle Eastern Studies
Uitreiking
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Mohammadbagher Forough
Faculty of Humanities
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Bareez Majid wins IISG thesis prize with study on torture museum
This year’s “best master’s thesis in the area of national or international history” was written by Bareez Majid, who has completed a research master's in Middle Eastern Studies. She wins the prestigious 2015 Volkskrant–IISG thesis prize for her courageous, solid research on a former “torture prison”…
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Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
Faculty of Humanities
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Eldad Ben Aharon
Faculty of Humanities
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Judith Naeff
Faculty of Humanities
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Education
At Leiden University you can study Islam and Muslim societies within two Dutch-language BA and various MA programmes and specializations.
- BA Spring Middle East Studies programme
- BA Fall Middle East Studies Programme
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Bareez Majid nominated for ECHO Award
Iraqi-Kurdish student of Middle Eastern Studies Bareez Majid has been nominated for the ECHO Award. ‘She has a strong personality, though she may appear unassuming at first,’ was the comment from one of her lecturers.
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The Middle Palaeolithic Occupation of Europe
Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden
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Middle Eastern Culture Market 2019
The fourth edition of the Middle Eastern Culture market was a great success with more than 2000 visitors over the weekend. Attendees participated in the many workshops, attended lectures, and shopped at the market stands.
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Belgian Middle Egypt Prehistoric Project
This research project of the Catholic University of Leuven was created in 1976 by Professor Dr Pierre Vermeersch, who assumed its direction until 2003. The present director is Professor Dr Philip Van Peer.
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Understanding Contemporary Islamic Crises in the Middle East
The Issues beneath the Surface
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Continuing your studies
If you want to continue in International Studies, the next step after obtaining your bachelor’s is a master’s degree (MA) at a Dutch or international university. And there may be no better place for your further master’s study than Leiden University!
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The Power of Technology in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean
The Case of the Painted Plaster
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Institute for Area Studies: Asia & the Middle East
The Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) is devoted to the study of places in the human world from antiquity to the present time in a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.
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Career prospects
The Middle Eastern Studies programme can open doors to you in a wide variety of industries in which the Middle East plays a prominent role, or serve as a stepping-stone to help you reach the next level of your academic education.
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About the programme
The two-year research master in Middle Eastern Studies equips you with advanced and in-depth knowledge in a region or discipline within the field of Middle Eastern Studies.
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Why Leiden University
Leiden University offers ambitious students the latest knowledge and the freedom to develop their own area of expertise.