This research seminar offers a space for discussion of ongoing research in Middle East Studies from a transdisciplinary, transhistorical and transregional perspective. It focuses on research undertaken at Ghent University and includes occasional presentations from external contributors. No prior knowledge of the region and its languages is required.
- Laura Stauth: Working Inside the Home: Domestic Labor Relations (20/05/25)
- Laura Menin: Quest for Love in Central Morocco (29/04/25)
- Fokelien Kootstra: AlUla Inscriptions Analysis Project (18/03/25)
- Nir Shafir: The Order and Disorder of Communication in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (12/12/24)
- Mohamed Maslouh: The Curious Case of Printed Rifāʿī Literature (14/11/24)
- Aymon Kreil: The Common Language of the Human Heart (24/10/24)
- Lecture: Becoming Stranger – Ambivalent distance and proximity