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Christine van Ruymbeke presents paper at Societas Iranologica Europaea workshop
16 May 2022
Prof. Christine van Ruymbeke, Ali Reza and Mohamed Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies, presented a paper "Le personnage principal du Haft Paykar de Nezami Ganjavi. Réflexions et analyse sur Bahram Gur en tant que caractère littéraire" at the Societas Iranologica Europaea workshop at EPHE (Ecole Pratiques des Hautes Etudes), Paris on Friday, 13th May, 2022.

Tatekawa Shinoharu Rakugo Residency at FAMES
05 May 2022
The Japanese Studies Section was pleased to host master rakugo performer, Tatekawa Shinoharu, for his week in residence at Cambridge.
Dr Batts to present at Centre de recherches sur le Japon (CRJ), Paris
01 April 2022
Global Japon(s) Saison 4 Histoire du monde – histoire des mondes vu du Japon
Amira K. Bennison helps present the history of Muslim Iberia as part of The Siwan Musical Project
28 March 2022
An episode of the The Siwan Project podcast presenting the history of Muslim Iberia and featuring Prof. Amira K. Bennison, Professor in the History and Culture of the Maghrib, has just been released on Spotify.
Nick Posegay’s Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew is now available in open access
25 January 2022
Written by FAMES postdoctoral researcher Nick Posegay, Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew is the latest volume in the Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures Series.
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Echoes of Vanishing Voices in the Mountains: A Linguistic History of Minorities in the Near East

Bridge of Zakho

 

 

This project, which is funded by the ERC and will run during the academic years 2021-2025, aims to reconstruct the complex, socioreligious past of the disappearing indigenous communities who were once more widespread across West Asia from the first millennium BC well into the Islamic period.

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