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27 May 2025
Professor Yasir Suleiman, CBE, FRSE, FRCPE (Hon.), Ambassador of the University of Sarajevo, has been elected Honorary Professor of the University of Jordan on 1 May 2025 in recognition of his internationally leading scholarship in the study of language and society in the Middle East.


27 May 2025
Sang Hun Seok’s latest article in The RUSI Journal analyses how multipolarity has become the centrepiece of Pyongyang’s strategic narratives, not merely as a description of the world but as a strategic goal that it now actively pursues.


27 May 2025
Dr. David Mozina gave a lecture entitled “The Ontology of Writing: The Workings of Talismans in Daoist Practice” for the East Asian Studies Seminar at Tel Aviv University.


23 May 2025
Article in Engelsberg Ideas by Dr Nilsson-Wright


21 May 2025
Professor Saloumeh Gholami’s ‘Historic Visit’ to India (December 2024).


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Analysing prominent novelists such as Ibrahim al-Kuni and Hisham Matar, alongside lesser-known and emerging voices, this book introduces the themes and genres of the Libyan novel during the al-Qadhafi era. Exploring latent political protest and environmental lament in the writing of novelists in exile and in the Jamahiriyya, Charis Olszok focuses on the prominence of encounters between humans, animals and the land, the poetics of vulnerability that emerge from them, and the vision of humans as creatures (makhlūqāt) in which they are framed.


Cover: The Libyan Novel, Dr Charis Olszok