Arabic, Islamic and Middle East Studies
The Ghent Center for Arabic, Islamic and Middle East Studies (GhentCAIMES) approaches the Middle East from various perspectives, including anthropology, history, religious studies, philology, linguistics, literature. The languages, cultures and societies of this important region are the focus of our teaching, research and public outreach. Current perspectives such as decolonization, intersectionality, multiperspectivism and the critical interrogation of globalisation and orientalism represent a common feature.
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News and events
- Ilan Pappé: Disrupting the Narrative on Palestine (Palestine Talks Spring 2026 – 06/05)
- Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian: The Expansions of Spaces of Killing and the Logic of Evisceration against Gazans (Palestine Talks Spring 2026 – 27/04)
- Vincent Thérouin and Irem Gündüz-Polat: Textual, Spacial and Material Approaches in Ottoman History (23/04/26)
- Menna M. El Mahy: Governance, Architecture, and the Entanglement of Local and Transregional Leadership at the Syro-Anatolian Frontier (13th-early 15th centuries)(24/03/26)
- Ammar Kandeel: Archival Rationality of Palestinian Graphic Narratives before and after the Genocide (Palestine Talks Spring 2026 – 10/03)
- Mouin Rabbani: Palestine after the Gaza Genocide (Palestine Talks Spring 2026 – 26/02)
- Karin van Nieuwkerk: Narratives on the Feminine Self, Marriage, and Sexuality. Body Politics among Nonreligious Women in Egypt. (24/02/26)
- Rethinking Rural Communities and Tribalism in Islamic Lands (6th –10th / 12th –16th Centuries) (17-18/12/25)