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03 May 2024
Dr Nilsson-Wright was part of a 30 minute discussion programme on Wednesday of this week with the Arirang English-language TV programme, “Within the Frame” discussing North Korea’s security challenges in East Asia, the Middle East and Europe.


03 May 2024
Kanda Yoko and Tatekawa Shinoharu brought their captivating performances to FAMES on Wednesday 1 May 2024


30 April 2024
We have been successful in a bid to attract British Academy funding for a 4-Year Global Professor to join the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at FAMES. This is one of eight new Global Professorships announced by the Academy.


26 April 2024
James Montgomery writes for New Lines Magazine about how, when his patron captured Indian Brahmins, Abu Rayhan al-Biruni saw the chance to study a living link to a lost Greek civilization


24 April 2024
Elizabeth Monier was interviewed by BBC News Brazil for a report on alliances and rivalries and in the Middle East, published 20 April.


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An engrossing history of ancient Chinese philosophy and culture from an eminent Cambridge expert. 

We are often told that the twenty-first century is bound to become China's century. Never before has Chinese culture been so physically, digitally, economically or aesthetically present in everyday Western life. But how much do we really know about its origins and key beliefs? How did the ancient Chinese think about the world?