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28 Jun 2024: Details of the MPhil in Middle Eastern Studies: Muslim-Jewish Relations & the Woolf Institute Cambridge Scholarship can be found here. ... He specialises in the history of Christians in the late antique Middle East, 400-900.

28 Jun 2024: Published July 08, 2019 by Christopher Cooper-Davies. Conference Report: Languages of Legitimation: Cambridge Middle East Conference, 2019. ... General research questions we hoped to address included: what does legitimacy mean in a Middle Eastern context?

28 Jun 2024: religion, migration, economics - and inner subjectivities. ... of cohabitation between Muslims, Jews, Christians, Arabs, Kurds, Armenians and others - but also test the strength of the 'interfaith and cosmopolitan' narrative of Syria's secularist

28 Jun 2024: In doing this, they advance their knowledge in their field of research, test their developing theses and develop valuable and transferable skills in teaching, creating teaching materials and academic event organising. ... Material includes key reference

27 Jun 2024: the history of the Jews of the wider Mediterranean and the Middle East. ... Genizah documents have allowed researchers to meticulously reconstruct the social, economic and political history of the Jewish communities of Iraq, Syria-Palestine, Egypt and

27 Jun 2024: the emergence of an economic elite that prospered until they reached the status of honoured citizens. ... All this evidences suggests that Vic was one of the most important centres of the cutlery industry in the late Middle Ages.

28 Jun 2024: Paper presented at the Religious Imaginations and Global Transitions conference at the London School of Economics. ... Paper presented at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) annual conference in Washington DC.

28 Jun 2024: We started the month off by welcoming Prof Mick Dumper (University of Exeter) for his lecture ‘Jerusalem: A Many-Bordered City’ which explored how the different historical, religious, legal and economic ... st. Century, where we welcomed three

27 Jun 2024: Bees and bee products were of tremendous cultural significance in the later Middle Ages.

28 Jun 2024: Licoricia of Winchester has been described as the most important English Jewish woman of the Middle Ages. ... Diversity of community creates cultural and commercial benefits. Many prejudices against the Jews originated in the Middle Ages and shaped

28 Jun 2024: Stephanie's PhD research will focus on the evolving relationship between Byzantium, the Umayyad Caliphate, and Christian communities across the Middle East in the seventh and eighth centuries, particularly in the ... After writing his PhD on

27 Jun 2024: Throughout the Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula was a place of conflict, but also of exchange and collaboration. ... Throughout the Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula was a place of conflict, but also of exchange and collaboration between the Islamic

27 Jun 2024: Hanan is Assistant Professor of History of the Middle East at Texas Christian University. ... Her primary research focuses on the socio-economic and cultural development of the modern Middle East with special emphasis on gender, sexuality and popular

27 Jun 2024: religion, migration, economics—and inner subjectivities. ... of cohabitation between Muslims, Jews, Christians, Arabs, Kurds, Armenians, and others—but also test the strength of the ‘interfaith and cosmopolitan’ narrative of Syria’s secularist

28 Jun 2024: But this is work that needs to be done. Editions of primary source material are one of the sustaining pillars of research, be it on cultural, social, economic or political history. ... She is an Affiliate Lecturer at the Faculty of Asian and Middle

28 Jun 2024: Composed in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, they paint a vivid picture of the economic situation in Mamluk Egypt, the commercial connections between Southern Europe and the Middle East, the relations between

27 Jun 2024: And critics also emphasised the suffering of countless other Christians in the Middle East. ... the Middle East: Cross-Cultural Diplomacy in the Period of the Crusades, trans.

27 Jun 2024: Mediterranean patterns and habits of food cultivation and diet changed in key ways in the Middle Ages, in response to social and economic changes, with emerging new religious practices and the

28 Jun 2024: Musicologist Ruth HaCohen has recently traced the association of Jews with 'noise' through Western-Christian culture from the Middle Ages to modernity. ... me to test and refine my own ideas among colleagues familiar with very different sonic and

27 Jun 2024: The programme will examine the interactions between religion and society and between the different religious communities, with a focus on Jews and Muslims, in the Middle East, southern Europe and the ... from below'), examinations of interreligious

27 Jun 2024: The privilege of a sabbatical enabled numerous and sometimes lengthy meetings – in the USA, Europe and the Middle East. ... Power works by division, influence by multiplication. A monarch has power, making military, economic and political decisions.

28 Jun 2024: The arrival of foreigners in East German cities and regions coincided with economic decline and political humiliation. ... In order to maintain its economic clout and welfare levels, Germany will need net migration of around 500,000 people per year in

27 Jun 2024: By the middle of the thirteenth century, Muslim rule was confined to the small Emirate of Granada. ... v Changes in urban and rural structures. v The evolution of institutions and socio-economic systems.

28 Jun 2024: out concerning Israel/Palestine in the distinct academic fields of Jewish, Israel, Middle Eastern, and Palestine Studies. ... 14] Ghassan Kanafani, “Returning to Haifa,” in Palestine0Israel Jouranl of Politics, Economics and Culture, no.

27 Jun 2024: Introduction. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is Dr Julian Hargreaves; I am Research Fellow at the Woolf Institute, an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, ... Where anti-Muslim hatred exists in Blackburn we must

28 Jun 2024: One important outcome of this eclectic coexistence of people from a range of economic, social, cultural, and religious backgrounds is the emergence of intercultural groups, led by highly motivated new Berliners, ... Salaam Schalom is an initiative by

28 Jun 2024: Unused to foreigners, suffering from economic decline, and living with accusations of being defective democratic citizens, xenophobic sentiments were common particularly among East Germans. ... Over 25,000 underage refugees arrived in Germany in 2015

27 Jun 2024: There are parallels here with ancient Jewish writing, including 1st Century Alexandrian Jewish Greek literature which I would like to explore as a test case. ... In 332 BCE, Alexander the Great conquered and Hellenised the Middle East.

28 Jun 2024: Contributions came from a diverse range of scholars from across Europe, North America and the Middle East, with doctoral candidates presenting alongside senior academics. ... and function of the instrument, and tracing how the design and engineering of

28 Jun 2024: This no longer makes polygamy in Malaysia a preserve of the elites, but an increasingly middle-class phenomenon. ... This is more likely to create greater competition between the co-wives – particularly those who depend on the husband as a common

27 Jun 2024: specificity. As historical studies are beginning to show (largely in the US), minority-state relations belie the complex, postcolonial question of French Middle East relations refracted through the memory-lens of ... citizenship and the other on economic

27 Jun 2024: Freedom of speech. Quite unlike in China, Russia or the much of the Middle East, people seem unafraid to talk freely in Istanbul, especially taxi drivers, who readily shared their strong ... And we know that financial crises can test the social cohesion

28 Jun 2024: and trusting intelligently as an example of solidarity and good faith to the on-going proxy wars being fought on Middle Eastern soil. . ... Further blog articles will appear over the coming months - in October Sami will discuss his "work in progress" on

27 Jun 2024: However, despite this political, economic and geographical growth, our concept of Identity remained firmly rigid. ... Peter Garry is a PhD student at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College, Dublin and has completed both the

28 Jun 2024: Makhraj 7 [Exit 7] and Umm Haroun [Mother of Aaron] are two TV series produced by the Saudi-owned pan-Arab and Dubai-based satellite network, Middle East Broadcasting Centre (MBC). ... attract and co-opt using culture, political values and policies, as