The Annual Medieval Middle East Meeting (AMMEM) is a yearly event in the Netherlands supported by NISIS and the Dutch Research School for Medieval Studies. This initiative is a yearly forum for students, junior, middle-career and senior scholars to present work-in-progress that is related to the Medieval Middle East. The aim is to receive feedback,…

Every year, the Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies (NISIS) organises a Spring School in collaboration with our partners from several European countries in the framework of the European Network for Islamic Studies (ENIS). This year, our Spring School took us to Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, where we were hosted at the University of…

On a bright Spring day, academics, students and policy makers gathered at the beautiful Clingendael Institute in the Hague for a study day on “The Political Relevance of Islamism in the Contemporary Middle East”. Once there, we were welcomed by Matteo Colombo, a research fellow at the Clingendael Institute, and Joas Wagemakers, academic director of…