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09 December 2025
Report workshop: “Syria One Year After the Revolution: The Role of Women and Minorities”
On 8 December 2024, the regime of Bashar al-Asad, the president of Syria whose dictatorial rule had been in place for decades (and, before that, his father ...
07 November 2025
RUG Winter School ’26: Commensality and Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and Its Diasporas
This Winter School revolves on the theme of “commensality”, the prospect of coming together at the same table -or not-, with literal and ...
03 November 2025
2025 Juynboll Lecture by Ahmed El Shamsy | Wednesday November 12, 17:00 hrs
On Wednesday November 12 at 5 pm Ahmed El Shamsy (University of Chicago) will give the 2025 Juynboll lecture entitled “Sunni constitutional theory in light ...
03 October 2025
Workshop ‘Syria, one year after the revolution: The role of women and minorities’
Since the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, on 8 December 2024, there are notable signs of hope and change within the country. Interim-president ...