04 December 2025
Dr Masoud Mohammadirad has published two new books. "A grammar of Hewramî" is a comprehensive grammatical description of the Hewramî variety of Tekht, grounded in current linguistic methods. "Echoes of the past: Hewramî narratives" is a collection of 15 narratives in Hewramî. Hewramî is one of the most morphologically complex West Iranian languages. Read more about the books here.
02 December 2025
Dr Young will be on a panel of judges which was announced today, along with the shortlisted titles.
02 December 2025
This week the Banipal Trust for Arabic Literature announced the shortlist for its 2025 prize. See here for more on the shortlisted books and their authors and translators. The judging panel this year was chaired by AMES Professor Tina Phillips.
01 December 2025
Professor Barak Kushner delivered a talk on 28 November, 2025, entitled "Imperial Japanese war criminals as leaders — the awkward judicial cases of colonial and nationalist cases that shaped the postwar.”
27 November 2025
MEM’s Board of Directors awards Honorary Membership to a few senior medievalists who have distinguished themselves in their teaching and research. Honorary Membership is for life and is gratis.
27 November 2025
Professor Kushner's talk 「ラーメンから考える日中関係史」is part of the Inter University Centre's 22nd Lecture Series
21 November 2025
Read about how Prof Moretti's work on early modern Japanese book culture inspires alumnus and features in Mainichi Shimbun: Edging Toward Japan: What does being literate in Japanese really mean?
21 November 2025
We are delighted to announce that Yasir Suleiman-Malley, CBE, FRSE, FRCPE(Hon), Emeritus Professor of Modern Arabic Studies, University of Cambridge, and the Founding Director of the Centre of Islamic Studies, has accepted appointment as Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar.
21 November 2025
Professor Nilsson-Wright has provided analysis for Global Asia and the BBC
18 November 2025
On Friday, 14 November Professor Barak Kushner delivered a talk in Chinese in Yantai, China. He traveled to China with two colleagues from Waseda University, with whom he has a longstanding collaboration - Professors Asano Toyomi and Tsuchiya Reiko.
12 November 2025
Professor Kushner gave a talk, titled "What happened to war criminals in China once the Japanese left - the pathology of justice in East Asia,” , to the 近代日本史研究会 (Japan History Group) at University of Tokyo on November 11, 2025.
07 November 2025
Dr Amira K. Bennison has won the Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Prize for the best article published in the journal in 2023 and 2024 for her article, ‘Sainthood and Social Boundary Crossing in medieval North Africa’, Al-Masāq 36:2 (2024): 176-93.
05 November 2025
On October 16, Dr Noga Ganany gave a lecture in the University of Oxford's China Studies Seminar Series on her recent project on a Ming-dynasty illustrated hagiography of the Buddha and its impact on Chinese book culture.
04 November 2025
Dr Paul Anderson was interviewed on his research on China-Middle East trade networks by Dr Safa Joudeh at the University of Exeter. A podcast of the full interview is available.
03 November 2025
Prof Christine van Ruymbeke appointed Francesco De Dombrowski Visiting Professor at I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Nov-Dec 2025)