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.
- Karin van Nieuwkerk: Narratives on Marriage, Love, and Sexuality. Body Politics among Nonreligious Women in Egypt. (24/02/26)
- Yossef Rapoport: Becoming Arab: The Formation of Arab Identity in the Medieval Middle East (16/12/25)
- An Van Raemdonck: The ‘productive Muslim’, between Algorithm, Neoliberal and Islamic Ethos (25/11/25)
- Sara Mondini: Reframing Islamic Architecture: The Malabar Coast Case and the Rethinking of Pedagogy and Disciplinary Perspectives (30/10/25)
- Laura Stauth: Working Inside the Home: Domestic Labor Relations (20/05/25)
- Laura Menin: Quest for Love in Central Morocco (29/04/25)
- 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)
- 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