NISIS wijst graag op het televisieprogramma Zomergasten met Sigrid Kaag. Ook zeer de moeite waard voor iedereen met interesse in Arabisch en het Midden-Oosten. Sigrid Kaag | NPO Start     

We would like to invite you to the fourth Annual Medieval Middle East Meeting (see description below) to take place on 30 October 2026 at Utrecht University. We invite abstracts of two different kinds; traditional papers and our format of short “pitches and presentations”: 15 min papers (followed by 10 minutes for Q&A); 5 min…

Beyond the Majority: Agency, Identity, and Memory among Non-Majority Communities in Muslim-Majority Contexts This one-day conference, organized by NISIS and the University of Groningen,  invites researchers to explore the historical and contemporary experiences of non-majority communities in/from Muslim-majority contexts, particularly the Middle East. It focuses on religious, ethnic, linguistic, and sectarian communities that have often…

Palestine Talks Spring 2026 Disrupting the Narrative on Palestine Professor Ilan Pappé is the director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter and a senior fellow at the University of Exeter’s Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies. He is also the chair of the board of the charity The Nakba Memorial…