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Studium Generale presents a series of lectures about Identity in the Middle East: Use and Abuse of the Past. Held on Thursday nights in the Lipsius building. Entrance is free.

Time: Thursday 19.30 - 21.00 hrs
Place: Lipsius building, room 005, Cleveringaplaats 1, Leiden
3 June: Lipsius building, room 003

Thursday 1 April
Muren en monsters: identiteitsvorming in het middeleeuwse islamitische rijk
By Petra Sijpesteijn
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Thursday 8 April
De twistappel: Assyrische christenen en het Assyrische Rijk
By Heleen Murre-van den Berg
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Thursday 15 April
Egypte voor de Egyptenaren
By Robbert Woltering
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Thursday 22 April
Persian Cosmogony in Arab Garb
By Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
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Thursday 20 May
Iraq
By Islam Qasem
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Thursday 27 May
Wij zijn geen Arabieren, wij horen bij Europa!
By Alexander de Groot
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Thursday 3 June
Gebruik en misbruik van de geschiedenis in het moderne Midden-Oosten
By Petra Sijpesteijn
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Contact
Studium Generale Universiteit Leiden
Postbus 9500
2300 RA Leiden

Tel: 071 527 7283 / 7295 / 7296
E-mail: y.leunissen@ics.leidenuniv.nl
Web: studiumgenerale.leidenuniv.nl

Last weeks of this intriguing exhibition in the National Museum of Antiquities!

'The Egypt of Gustave Flaubert' has been received with much enthusiasm by visitors and press. The exhibition will only be up for another few weeks. You can still visit it till April 4. The famous novelist Gustave Flaubert made a trip through Egypt in 1849 and 1850, together with photographer and friend Maxime Du Camp. The exhibition combines fragments from the travel journal of Flaubert with photo's taken by Du Camp and objects from the Egyptian collection.

'The Egypt of Gustave Flaubert' on the RMO website


Other RMO activities:
Theme walk: 'Textiles in Ancient Egypt'
Museum walk through the Ancient Near Eastern department