492 zoekresultaten voor “egypt” in de Publieke website
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Blue bra graffiti: masterclass Bahia Shebab
Egyptian artist Bahia Shebab will give a masterclass in Leiden on 13 December. She is one of this year's laureates of the Prins Claus Award and has become known for her subversive graffiti. Judith Naeff, lecturer in Cultures of the Middle East, introduces Shebab and calls on students to register for…
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Eritrean regime trades its own nationals in a billion-dollar trafficking business
The human trafficking of Eritrean refugees is a booming business, where money is made with smuggling people, but also using violence, hostage situations and even torture. Modern communication methods like money transfer via mobile phones play a vital role in this, conclude professor Mirjam van Reisen…
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Judit Kuschnitzki Awarded the 2020 HJD Article Award
The Hague Journal of Diplomacy marks its 15th anniversary in 2020 with an award for the best article in the journal. The HJD Article Award is a biennial prize, like the Book Award that the ISGA-based journal will launch in 2021.
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‘Arab Springs provide momentum for women’
The Arab women are coming! That was Kim Ghattas’s message on 6 March in the 25th Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture. It won’t be easy and it could take a long time, but they can do it. The Arab Springs have inspired them, and they’re not letting go of that.
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Programme: Cinema-Going in The Arab World: Exhibition, Distribution, and Audiences
A workshop (Cairo, Egypt, 14-15 September 2018) organized by the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo with support from “DICIS” / Digital Cinema Studies https://www.digitalcinemastudies.com/
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Leiden Classics: Caspar Reuvens, the world’s first professor of archaeology
Leiden archaeology is booming. Our archaeologists take part in major international projects covering not only the Netherlands but large areas of the globe. Caspar Reuvens (1793-1835) was also keen on this division: he had one foot in the Netherlands and the other in the Mediterranean world.
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Facebook in Africa
Chad-born youngsters in Paris come into contact with youngsters actually in Chad via Facebook: it would be difficult to find a better way to demonstrate the possibilities social media offer for people scattered across the world by war. Mirjam de Bruijn has been awarded a Vici grant for a study of the…
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Leiden University’s Learners around the World
The United Nations’ fourth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) aims to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”. The Centre for Innovation at Leiden University feels the responsibility to tackle this need. Our mission is to drive innovation…
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Maurits Berger: ‘Every researcher should do a social project’
Maurits Berger worked as a lawyer in Amsterdam and as a journalist and researcher in Egypt and Syria. Since 2008, he has been a Professor of Islam in Leiden. Now he finally gets to do what he really wants: bringing his social knowledge and experience with Islam to the academic world. His call to the…
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Leiden Papyrology Lecture 2017
Lezing
- Book Presentation in honour of Prof. Dr. Jacques van der Vliet
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Islam en Medische Ethiek: Hoofdvragen en Benaderingen
Lezing
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Piecing together the dispersed tomb of Ptahmose, Mayor of Memphis
Lezing
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Turkey and the Middle East since the Uprisings: Between Ideology and National Interest
Lezing, Guest Talk
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The coronation ritual of the falcon at Edfu: tradition and innovation in ancient Egyptian ritual composition
Promotie
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Celebrating Maimonides in Cairo: Jewish Historiography, Egyptian Nationalism, and Global Crisis
Lezing, LUCIS What's New?! Series
- Volume 10 (2015)
- Public Diplomacy (incl Soft Power and Sharp Power)
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Centralization, Language Reform and the Role of Governors in Umayyad Administration: A Question of Point of View
LUCIS What's New lecture
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Qasyoun
Festival, Middle Eastern Culture Market 2019
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Forum Antiquum Fall 2020 Lecture Migrant Literature in the Early Roman Empire: Greek Responses to Rome
Lezing
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The Decade of Revolt? Class Conflict and the State of Permanent Crisis in the Post-2011 Middle East
Congres/symposium, Roundtable
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East Mediterranean Natural Gas and Israel’s Regional Integration
Lezing, LUCIS What's New?! series
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From Single Sign to Pseudo-Script
Lezing, LIAS Book event
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series
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Canonical and Sacred Landscapes Symposium
Congres/symposium, Symposium
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The Iseum Campense from the Roman Empire to the Modern Age:
International conference
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Late Antique Religion in Practice: Papyri and the Dynamics of Religious Identification
Congres/symposium
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The Role of the Muslim Brotherhood Within the Geopolitics of the Middle East
LUCIS Lecture
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Leiden Loves Science
Festival
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Religion & Cultural Geography in the Ancient World
Congres/symposium, Symposium
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Lunch Research Seminar: Good governance in Libya?
Lezing
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The Multilingual Holy Land
Congres/symposium, Public event
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The Naked Blogger of Cairo
Book presentation
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[Cancelled] Disabling the Middle East: How Can the Concept of Disability Provide Fresh Perspectives on the Region?
Lezing, LUCIS What's New?! Series
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series
- The Naked Blogger of Cairo
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Living on the Other Side: A Legal-Anthropological Analysis of Migration and Family Law in Morocco
Lezing
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Textual Sources and Geographies of Slavery in the Early Islamic Empire, ca. 600-1000 CE
Congres/symposium
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Patching Poetry’s Cloak: the Poet’s Historical Sense in Modern Arabic and Dutch Poetry
Poetry Recital | Al-Babtain Poetry Series
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VICI Award for Miguel John Versluys
Dr. Miguel John Versluys (Archaeology) has been awarded a prestigious Vici grant for his project:
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Angus Mol: ‘It all began when I saw Super Mario Bros at a friend’s house.’
He was so disappointed that he couldn't go on that archaeological field trip to the Caribbean, he spent most of his time at his computer working on his dissertation instead. But that didn't keep him from gaming from time to time, a personal passion that ultimately led to his current job. Since February…
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Moving to virtual collaboration with Marike van Aerde and her team: ‘There is real team spirit in our WhatsApp group’
Marike van Aerde was at the brink of traveling to India for fieldwork when that country closed its borders, three weeks ago. Only a few days later, Leiden University followed suit in temporarily banning all fieldwork trips. With her research team scattered across different continents, she does her best…
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Vidis for eleven Leiden researchers
Eleven talented Leiden researchers with several years of research experience have been awarded a Vidi subsidy to set up or expand their own line of research.
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The life of nomads in turbulent times
In recent years, the Walad Djifir from Chad found themselves in a turbulent environment due to the unrest in Nigeria, Libya and the Central African Republic. How did they adapt? Inge Butter explored their situation in her PhD thesis. PhD defence will take place on 2 July.
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2012 LGI Seed funding awarded to research project: Globalisation, materiality and the transference of cultures
The LGI is pleased to annouce that seed money has been granted to Dr. Miguel John Versluys (Archaeology), Prof. Caroline van Eck (Art History) and Prof. Pieter ter Keurs (Anthropology) for their research on Globalisation, materiality and the transference of cultures.
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Prof Ann Brysbaert participates in Getty Foundation’s initiative
A new and recently started Getty Foundation project, Material Entanglements in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond, aims to forge connections among Mediterranean and Eastern scholars who rarely come into contact with one another’s work. Ann Brysbaert is one of the 25 invited specialists investigating…
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Lorentz Center brings together researchers from all disciplines
For nearly twenty years the Lorentz Center has been a unique venue where researchers from all over the world work in intense collaboration. In an inspiring academic climate, researchers are free to organise specialised workshops within and across disciplines, be it humanities, social sciences or sci…
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In memoriam Harold M. Hays (1965-2013)
It is with profound sadness that we have learned of the passing of our colleague and friend, Dr Harold M Hays. Harold passed away on Wednesday 20 November, in his sleep, as a result of heart failure.
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Upcoming exhibitions, residencies, concerts, record launches and lectures by PhDArts, docARTES and ACPA researchers
A series of upcoming activities by PhDArts co-director Janneke Wesseling, docARTES researchers Bobby Mitchell, Giuliano Bracci, and Dick de Graaf, and PhDArts researchers Brigitte Kovacs, Danne Ojeda, Jack Segbars, Mikala Hyldig Dal, Ato Malinda, and Thalia Hoffman