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We are looking forward to seeing you all this Thursday at 6 pm for the start of our new lecture season! We'll be joined by @RaphaelCormack, who will be talking about hypnotists and jinn in 1930s Cairo. shorturl.at/vqyMI

Welcome to the team, Andrés!

In Memoriam: our dear director, Dr Rudolf de Jong. universiteitleiden.nl/en/nvic/news/i…

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our director, Dr. Rudolf de Jong. We extend our deepest condolences to his loved ones. NVIC will be closed the coming week in mourning. Details of a memorial in Cairo will follow soon. Rest in peace, boss. We will miss you.

Ifdal Elsaket, our Assistant Director for Arabic and Middle East Studies, featured on the blog of the New York Public Library!

We kindly invite you to join us this Tuesday at 6 pm for a poetry reading and discussion with @MosabAbuToha and @monaelnaggar. Limited seats - we open our doors at 5:30. t.ly/_6H8F

Join us tonight at 7 for Nabil Yasien Mohamed's introduction to his most recent publication, Ghazālī’s Epistemology: A Critical Study of Doubt and Certainty (@Routledgebooks, 2023): t.ly/G0CXA

Join us tonight at 7 pm for @joelxblecher's lecture, 'Reflections on Hadith Commentary: Continuity and Change.' We work on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors open at 6:30. For more information: t.ly/UTNIj

Join us at 7 tonight for Mariam Elashmawy's talk, Rūḥ al-sharq in Interwar Cairo: Global Religious History and Esoteric Entanglements in al-Ma‘rifa Periodical. universiteitleiden.nl/en/nvic/events…

Photo: 'Newspaper boy selling Falestin in Jaffa (1921-23)' Digitised negative, image courtesy of Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (/3)

To make an appointment to visit the exhibition (open Sunday to Thursday, 10-2), send an email to info@nvic.leidenuniv.nl mentioning your full name and when you would like to visit. All proceeds will go to the financial support of Palestinian university students in Egypt. (2)

For those of you who haven't had a chance to join the auction of the photo prints that are part of the Unsilencing Palestine exhibition, you can do so until the end of this week (Thursday)! (1)

Photo: Middle-class merchants transporting cigarettes from Jaffa to Jerusalem (1921-23) Digitised negative, image courtesy of NINO

Join us tonight at 7 for Karène Sanchez Summerer's lecture, Unsilencing, Rewriting and Nuancing Palestine, and/or at 8:30 for the opening of the photo exhibition Unsilencing Palestine. For more information: universiteitleiden.nl/en/nvic/events…

Join us next week! For more information: universiteitleiden.nl/en/nvic/events…

We now have an elevator, which makes NVIC a lot more accessible. You can find it on the left side of our building.

Join us this Thursday at 7 pm for Ahmad Khan's talk, 'The Making of Sunnism: 8th-11th century,' which is related to his most recent publication, 'Heresy and the Formation of Medieval Islamic Orthodoxy' (@CambridgeUP, 2022): facebook.com/events/2141628…

Join us tonight at 7 for Hatsuki Aishima's talk “Be Water, My Friend”: Knowledge, Body and Embodiment in the Age of Mass Media. We open our doors at 6:30. For more information: facebook.com/events/8623741…

Our stellar Intro to Ancient Egypt course is back! Do you live in Egypt and have you always wondered about the pharaonic heritage surrounding you? This fall NVIC organizes a beginner’s level, introductory course into Egyptology: universiteitleiden.nl/en/nvic/educat…

We are looking forward to seeing you at 7 pm for today's talk: Ahmed Zaazaa - The Extractive Sector: Real Esate Urbanism in Cairo and Its Toll on the Environment! universiteitleiden.nl/en/nvic/events…