The North Africa and Middle East department of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NISIS  (Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies) and Leiden University organized the 2022 Henriëtte van Lynden lecture on Thursday 15 December 2022. This year’s speaker was Amr Hamzawy (George Washington University). The full lecture, including the Q&A was recorded. You can watch…

work by Mona Hatoum The 2023 Spring School ‘Shifting Boundaries in Muslim Worlds’ is organized at the University of Catania (Sicily, Italy), by the European Network for Islamic Studies (ENIS), which includes among others the Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies (NISIS), the Institut d’études de l’Islam et des sociétés du monde musulman (IISMM, France),…

To attend this study day, please register below by Friday 28 April 2023.* For more information about the program, please click here. * Please note that online attendance is not possible for this study day. Since we would like to encourage students and other interested people who live in The Netherlands to take part in this…

The state remains contested in Muslim-majority countries and in Europe in relation to Muslim minorities. The two seminars and the public lecture that constitute this one-day study day, co-organised by UCSIA and NISIS, focus on the various tensions around the topic of “Islam and the state”, particularly in two countries in North Africa and the…